St. Iago Sass, curate of a parish in Zaragoza.  As General Palafox made his rounds through the city, he often beheld Sass alternately playing the part of a Priest and a Soldier; sometimes administering the sacrament to the dying; and, at others, fighting in the most determined manner against the enemies of his country.—­He was found so serviceable in inspiring the people with religious sentiments, and in leading them on to danger, that the General has placed him in a situation where both his piety and courage may continue to be as useful as before; and he is now both Captain in the army, and Chaplain to the commander-in-chief.’

The reader will have been reminded, by the passage above cited from Sir Philip Warwick’s memoirs, of the details given, in the earlier part of this tract, concerning the course which (as it appeared to me) might with advantage be pursued in Spain:  I must request him to combine those details with such others as have since been given:  the whole would have been further illustrated, if I could sooner have returned to the subject; but it was first necessary to examine the grounds of hope in the grand and disinterested passions, and in the laws of universal morality.  My attention has therefore been chiefly directed to these laws and passions; in order to elevate, in some degree, the conceptions of my readers; and with a wish to rectify and fix, in this fundamental point, their judgements.  The truth of the general reasoning will, I have no doubt, be acknowledged by men of uncorrupted natures and practised understandings; and the conclusion, which I have repeatedly drawn, will be acceded to; namely, that no resistance can be prosperous which does not look, for its chief support, to these principles and feelings.  If, however, there should be men who still fear (as I have been speaking of things under combinations which are transitory) that the action of these powers cannot be sustained; to such I answer that,—­if there be a necessity that it should be sustained at the point to which it first ascended, or should recover that height if there have been a fall,—­Nature will provide for that necessity.  The cause is in Tyranny:  and that will again call forth the effect out of its holy retirements.  Oppression, its own blind and predestined enemy, has poured this of blessedness upon Spain,—­that the enormity of the outrages, of which she has been the victim, has created an object of love and of hatred—­of apprehensions and of wishes—­adequate (if that be possible) to the utmost demands of the human spirit.  The heart that serves in this cause, if it languish, must languish from its own constitutional weakness; and not through want of nourishment from without.  But it is a belief propagated in books, and which passes currently among talking men as part of their familiar wisdom, that the hearts of the many are constitutionally weak; that they do languish; and are slow to answer to the requisitions of things.  I entreat those, who are in this delusion,