A Hundred Years Ago
" THE SPECTATOR," JULY 23RD, 1836.
General Everis has encountered a repulse from the Carlists be. fore the renowned fortess of Fontarabia. The General had received information that the place had been abandoned by the principal part of the garrison, and that it would surrender on his appearing before it with any reasonable number of troops. Lord. JOHN HAY - with his ships of war were therefore ordered to co-operate from the sea; and on the 11th instant, General Evems marche4 as he believed, to a sure victory. On his arrival he found that the fortifications of Fontarabia were in good condition, and that the garrison was sufficient to resist with success any force he could bring against it. The result was that after a few shells had been discharged from the ships—harmlessly, on account of the distance,—and a sharp skir- mish had taken place, in which the Legion routed a corps of the insurgents, and drove them from the heights they occupied,—a retreat was sounded, and the assailants returned to their lines, near St. Sebastian.
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