rather of the Spaniards than of the Portugueze; but what has been said, will be understood as applying in the main to the whole Peninsula.  The wrongs of the two nations have been equal, and their cause is the same:  they must stand or fall together.  What their wrongs have been, in what degree they considered themselves united, and what their hopes and resolutions were, we have learned from public Papers issued by themselves and by their enemies.  These were read by the people of this Country, at the time when they were severally published, with due impression.—–­ Pity, that those impressions could not have been as faithfully retained as they were at first received deeply!  Doubtless, there is not a man in these Islands, who is not convinced that the cause of Spain is the most righteous cause in which, since the opposition of the Greek Republics to the Persian Invader at Thermopylae and Marathon, sword ever was drawn!  But this is not enough.  We are actors in the struggle; and, in order that we may have steady PRINCIPLES to controul and direct us, (without which we may do much harm, and can do no good,) we ought to make it a duty to revive in the memory those words and facts, which first carried the conviction to our hearts:  that, as far as it is possible, we may see as we then saw, and feel as we then felt.  Let me therefore entreat the Reader seriously to peruse once more such parts of those Declarations as I shall extract from them.  I feel indeed with sorrow, that events are hurrying us forward, as down the Rapid of an American river, and that there is too much danger before, to permit the mind easily to turn back upon the course which is past.  It is indeed difficult.—­But I need not say, that to yield to the difficulty, would be degrading to rational beings.  Besides, if from the retrospect, we can either gain strength by which we can overcome, or learn prudence by which we may avoid, such submission is not only degrading, but pernicious.  I address these words to those who have feeling, but whose judgment is overpowered by their feelings:—­such as have not, and who are mere slaves of curiosity, calling perpetually for something new, and being able to create nothing new for themselves out of old materials, may be left to wander about under the yoke of their own unprofitable appetite.—­Yet not so!  Even these I would include in my request:  and conjure them, as they are men, not to be impatient, while I place before their eyes, a composition made out of fragments of those Declarations from various parts of the Peninsula, which, disposed as it were in a tesselated pavement, shall set forth a story which may be easily understood; which will move and teach, and be consolatory to him who looks upon it.  I say, consolatory:  and let not the Reader shrink from the word.  I am well aware of the burthen which is to be supported, of the discountenance from recent calamity under which every thing, which speaks of hope for the Spanish people, and through them for mankind, will be