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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1837. Excerpt: ... CHRISTIAN RESIGNATION. 127 CHAPTER VII. I Arrived at Durango on the 27th December, after a three days' ride over the snow from Olaveaga, and found Cuartel Real wearing an aspect of unfeigned chagrin. Don Carlos, perhaps, bore the disappointment with greater fortitude than any one, calmly observing when the news was brought to him, "Well! if it be the will of Heaven that I am not to reign,--I can submit without murmuring." --Few, however, had this measure of patience. The officer who brought him the mortifying intelligence took to his bed, with illness caused by pure vexation, and was not able to leave it for a week. Every one seemed lost in astonishment that the surprise could have occurred; and, strangest of all, nobody knew that the British ships, launches, sailors, and marines, were the principal parties engaged! Villarreal drew out his report of the battle (vide Appendix C), without the slightest mention of it, though the fact was so important in 128 DON SEBASTIAN, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. extenuation of his failure,--and on the 29th December he tendered his resignation. A council was held, and finally the command-in-cbief was conferred on the Infante Don Sebastian. Moreno was named Chief of the Staff; Villarreal, first Ayudante, and Brigadier General Don Joaquin Elio, Private Secretary. His Highness set out next day for Galdacano, and took command of the army. The Carlist troops had within the previous fortnight received an instalment of pay of half a month: on the 3rd January Don Sebastian disbursed another half-month's pay to all--both forming a small part only of what was then due to the troops, but which the poor fellows received thankfully, and enjoyed with a zest proportioned to the well-known deficiencies of the Carlist Exchequer, and the extent of their late privations.-- Ho...
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