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prudent contem- porary declares to be authority, that MINA is actually on the Spanish frontiers. We may therefore look for news from Spain soon ; and the anticipations of the Standard, though somewhat premature, may yet be realized. At Perpignan, there were, ac- cording to the last letters, a great number of Spanish refugees, and others were daily arriving. Among the strangers, there were several Portuguese and Italians, attracted by community of mis- fortune. FERDINAND is described as playing the game of the in- surgents, by the needless seventies that he has lately indulged in. At Barcelona, three persons are not allowed to walk in company; and no one is permitted to remain in the streets after eight o'clock. The priests, it is said, are in the habit of betraying the secrets of the confessional to their political rulers ; but this we believe to be an exaggeration. A subscription has been commenced in Paris in favour of the Spanish patriots. The military chest for such an army as MINA may look to command need not be large; they ask only arms and ammunition. Cries of "Long live Donna Maria!" are said to have been raised in Lisbon. We confess we have fewer hopes of the Portu- guese. than of the Spaniards ; our hopes of either are not very sanguine. We fear nothing but conquest will materially mend their condition. It is a curious rather than a comfortable re- flection, that our own victories in the Peninsula were in some measure the cause of its present degraded condition. The tyrant NAPOLEON was the only regenerator for a people so far gone.
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