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94 TRAVELS IN EUROPE.of deserters respectively.The latter troops, by their sabel-tasches andother paraphernalia of the profession, are of the German school.Theassumed contempt of the Bpaniards for the Portuguese, unaccountablyis not retol;ted: unaccountably, forsuch sentiments are usually reciprocal;at least one side has as gond a right to them as the other.Generositymay be carried too far: and it is so in this case, if such bethe cause. Tt is not usuaI for nations to forget their own hauts faits;and in warfare, equally strange to say, the advantage has always beenon the side of Portugal. In faet, it issuffieientt()r't~irnark,shehas beenable, as wc see, to maintain herself. A Spaniard will walk a mile fapointout the way to RIlEl1glishman, '\1hen he recognizes him; when he1vould not condescend an answer to his inquiry, whil~ he thought it camefrorn a Portuguese.Such is borderly philanthropy, neighbottrly love.Extraordinary to say, still, aH this never pï'oduces any effort at retortcourteous orotherwise.ELVAs.-Fort La Lippe. The able generalandiextrâordinary.énali:racier of this narne, Count la' Lippe ,Buckebourg, t'l'~hl'ilp'rl Ii;i:ml81:f'w(l,rfsituation hêre; and he might trlllY,say,"pere..ennius. JJIts use forany other earth!y purposëis not sa easil! tubedefined.'The embrazures are nowhlocked, as the view by glasses ici..forms us; so that here does not appear ta exist at present anya,pprehensionsof Immediate danger. Never was any country s6 duped byits engineers as Portugal. But this definition dnes not apply in thepresent instance.Count la Lippe never said thatapolygon was a palladium.,But people must come in aid ta thernseJves ta he effectuallyduped; and t11is they do. A view along the Hne of the frontier willspeedily justify the judicious observations of Dumourier upon thesub­Jêèt, but tovety littleeffect.Processions and fami]y cOIlllexiôl1s" flîelattêr t ' tao feeble instruments ta bind/,'are more ttusted. to~ thânfdte-