One might imagine we had sufficiently seen the folly of the attempt to restore the Bourbon line in Spain, but stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.
But be it as it may, the Spaniards having once tasted of freedom, though they reject Joseph Buonaparte, and drive the French out of Spain, will NEVER return to the yoke of Ferdinand the VIIth.
I hope I shall be forgiven for this digression, I was insensibly! drawn into it from a love of justice and humanity, with the conviction, that in boldly declaring a truth not generally known, I was doing an actual service to my country.
I will now resume the parallel of Buonaparte and Machiavelli, or rather, the striking coincidence between the precepts of the former and the conduct of the latter.
To this authentic fact we may add another. During the march of the British army from Portugal, they were frequently distressed for water, and they were only supplied from the brooks in their way, many of which they were obliged to pass, without satiating their thirst, the Spaniards having thrown mud into them to prevent their drinking.
