sion, plundered by monks, and trodden under foot by the nobles. What, then, was our motive? It was to prevent Buonaparte from acquiring a greater preponderance of power. This, I allow, was a sufficient motive for our interposition, had a rational hope of success offered itself; but that such was never the case, we might have been long ago convinced; and yet, after the sacrifice of three gallant armies, we are mad enough to send forces to the peninsula. We wonder, and so must every one who is not aware of the cause, that nine millions, though assisted by fifty thousand British troops, cannot expel eighty or one hundred thousand Frenchmen. Shall I declare the truth ?-The Spaniards, freed from their former galling yoke, shudder at the idea of its return. Their condition may be ameliorated, but cannot be rendered worse. Under the old government, they were mere beasts of burthen; they now breathe, their eyes are opened, and they feel they are men. The race of Buonaparte they may despise, but the Bour-
