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.!ral was known au America to
property. lie was sometimes,
esposing himself to temporary
generosity and attachment to
ice, no Uwe& : bat whit mad._
could inspire him with the idea
'sting out a military expeditioh ?
as Kraut him, fur he believes in alias.
s nstarr, and renders it caps.
Let bini be callrd imprudent,
la!“ ha mocii6crs.; let him be
for to . him men are what they
impute a malicious motive to
selfishness, avarice. and kiddy.
II COWIE', nor worked with'such

subordinate charges brought *giblet
as far, as I have been able to
public papers, Lilian merely
mend reworks as a casual read.
have suggested to the mind of
otoerver. The ship provisions
consisting chiefly of oatmeal
too little beef and pork.—
the ,Beta -let me ask, if such
orders, either in England, Scot-
ss are likely to become recruits
,nierican, or any other service, are
better fare ? Those among the
- will procure them more luau-
exchange more domestic comfort
the perils and privations of
If the soldiers of the Legion
provided during their voyage,
been in their own cottages,
Coolllldith The reward held
, was 1101 present enjoyment,
ureteric.. But the quality of the
have been unsuited to a leo.
'her are salt beef and pork,
lyiniligestible—yet, the wealth
affords no better diet to the
,j its service, in whatever climate
'played. On their arrival at Mar-
nd officers are said to have been
provisions, to subsirt among the
is and berries. Without deny-
: peculiar circumstances in which
placed, by the disastrous issue of
nsh'e expedition, some scarcity might exist, I
be irermitted to remark, that if the Gentlemen
have returned were driven from the l*land by
famine, we caunot but pay a weighty tribute
!miretion to that large majority of the Legion,
, by perseverance, triumphed over the cravings
nature, and (as we learn from the last accounts
siexuele.) were early in November about to
to the Maio, in condition to commence
operations. Another charge is, the want of
. Assuredly this complaint was made by no
military man ; for such a one would have remem-
bered that during the first four years, at least, of
the Peninsular War, both men and officers were
accustomed, while in the field, to no covering but
the ricy, or the shelter of a few boughs, though
operations were 'carried on daring all seasons of the
year. I will not deny that the Gentlemen who
have abandoned the South American service un-
derwent some difficulties, and suffered some prin.
lions; hat 'I dare erred these sufferings to have
been not greater dna British soldiers have, of late
years, tortoni! in all quarters of the globe ; nye.
and endured cheerfully. How should we have
looked upon the officer, who, during our struggle
in the Peninsn'a, should have fled to England,
thus to retail this budget of calamities :—" For so
many in 'he 'I received no pay, could purchase uo
comforts, and procure no clothing; for so many
dap I subsisted on mouldy biscuits, and had writer,
or poisonous. rum; for so many nights, after march.
ing throng!, soaking rains, I lay unsheltered on the
wet ground ; on such an occasion I was twelve
hours on duty, tip to my knees in water; on such
another I was obliged to march and fight, though
in a burning Tever ?'—All this might have been
aptly end truly said, yet no one ventured to return
with such a tale of his own falling off. Surely. if
the exhaurdna resources of the British Government
(were unable, on many occasions, to prevent much
suffering and many serious evils, it is a little ex•
traordinary that viii expedition, which. both in its
expense mud details, depended on the arrangement
and exertions of • single individual, unsupported
by any well-established Government—limited in his
means, almost a stranger in his own country. and
liable at every step to be deceived or disappointed
in the instruments be was obliged, often with little
choice, to employ—should hove enestuatered acci-
dents and misfortunes capable of chilling the enter-
prise of many young men, who. in a service of less
difficulty. might have acquitted themselves with
credit and consisterey.
" To the evils necessarily incident to such a war-
fare as is carried ors in SoutbAmerin were joined

others, whistai no prudence could foresee or prevent.
Can it &me escaped the consideration of the pub-
. spring of the calamities which
ion of the legiou was the no-
add, the atrocious conduct of
laced Arianieudi from the Go-
Ma, usurped the supreme se-
, with others, and leR no
to terrify or seduce the men
legion from the standard of
I have had °canine to be.
th English's character, and
despicable and unprincipled,
ail nisi boson' must
the prejudice of living

ion to the opinion 1 have so
of General D'Evereux's chs.
iuq individual will come for-
stsined by a siugle act of
•pledge myself to forsake his
recautatibs of the sentiments
ighip 1 profess. 1 trust not in-
Tor him. Till then 1 willing.
the same scale with his. The
embarked life. fortune. and.
unsullied repoiation, has too
to suffer,' long eclipse. A
may hare passed across public
cheering effulgence will again
D'Everesx's exertions. Thu
. ears theirratirede of mankind
Moser of independence oast fal•

ing all
in tied b
no

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ADMIRAL BRION'S ANSWER - -
TO COLOBIL •el.titg, AND
.TDDAytille FIELD
ointrits *Agee MUM:
The following is the Mistier or Adtdirtil Brion
to the Address of the Field Officer* of the Irish
Legion, which appeared in our laat. This docu-
ment has hero handed to us by Mr. Parsons, who
received' it etiolated it, • letter from his brother,
dated Msegoritta. December 10, and in Which it is
stated that a ship with provisions for the use*, the
Irish Legion had *rived at that islaud Blies the
United States.
" Jean Grittier; Vilwairk taii!
cosouri W. Aylmer, 6 .
" I have to ackoowledoe die recripiAll deedspeeseldMlle•
of the sth signed by poured( aellvlleioos othre
OMem of the Irish J....4,km, sad bare paid 'articular al.
*cation to its contents.
" With respect to the destination if Ohl Dem; fbb *Am
which I have received front Governance ow die sibject ate
orminsat, and 1 am not authireised to give she Imam say
other direction ; at the sane time, I beg to observe, that the
destination pointed oat by the Goverstuest is sorb as to ess-
sure the most speedy union of she . breast with the army
actisn immediately nudge the enters off/keen!
" Whilst your troops wilt he eugaged is marching to jalu
those ender the eoussoind of Geocral Marini and sabot.
warmly tuition the orgeonetiois of the &mem 'Amor, pre-
vious to the cotwooessemoteut of tie campaign, Geitefei Bp.
hear will have approached very rear,lie the Caracc•ip, sod it
is more than probable that your troops *III not bet:nosed
with the enemy, except under the orders of this Oteentl.
" I wish it also to be uoderstood, shines theopperanue to
which the Governors. has ordered the Irish Legisstots Is
employed, is is combiaatio• utUA the movements of General
Bolivar, should their embsrkation be retarded it might be
productive otruhicous cousequesees to the Republic.
" linemen of General Bolivar Wilke Clime of Vetiesteala,
sod your eo.operstlart is economy to.both. If the Irk* I.e.
(ion is really desirous of serviog General Bolivar nod the
gloriosa cause of Veneouela, they will be convinced of the
importance of their echee services at the primal crisis,
when a simultaneous movement of all the farces of the Re-
public are the surest means of exterminating the satiny.
it Be pleased to communicate this to lbe earns who, with
yourself, signed the Representation ' sioneriag them, et the
same time, of my sense of their zeal for the cause, and the
satisfaction I feel is hawing merited so greats abase of their
tonlidegert—else, that the Government of %remount* will
embrace the OM opportunity to peeve to them the bigb esti.
madam in which they hold their services.
(Signed, Ste. Sic.)

COLONEL AYLM Eit's ADDRESS 70 HIS
SOLDIERS.
The Limerick Erettiog Post of Thursday, pub-
lishes another letter from Captain Fitzgerald, of
the Irish Legion, at Mergaritte, of an earliir date
than that which appeared in our last. It isuddress-
ed to his father, sod enclosed the Nanning Ad-
drew, from Colonel Aylmer to the First Lancers of
the Legion. We observe that the brave Colonel
alludes forcibly to the hard•hips of which the offi-
cers who have returned complain:-.!
" Juan Critics, September SI/, 1115.
" Soldiers of lAe First Leasers of tie f
" Let the desertion of some of purr Meets, esworthy of
being called our Coontrytteo, only serve to unite' what re-
oos of as the NM! firmly.

" Yon, who have fulluw.ed not from pow hems, who have
remaiod tree to me, remember thot.yoo an hiplemes.
" We have not come hither to plssder the gesetvesis people
of this mod, but to fete them from their oppreasois ; we left
a land of Fleshly behind es. In beg ita yen etieduet your-
whir* as good men, so lung obeli 1 love you, mad be proe4
to lead you to glory. Nets obeli I Amid toy arostrysessi,
or the cause of liberty. ~
" My model about yes i. eel, from ate, eves
while you think I sleep, your perittear it 'are great,
but you should learn that the mt. ettribete of a
soldier is to suffer with wires., aw/lbriite&t. •
" If ye* think me worthy id beteg obeyed *easy thief,
the first, the only favour 1 ask of you is tiiJ.,/, it be your
pride, that the people in whom villages we wog be spat-
tered, may my to one sod another at our &whose, a These
warn Issue Dot committed depredations OS oor little proper-
lira—they are oar Piked% oar Liberatere-4koic mu,
Soldiers, this my first remsem, and may the great God of
Armies pretest you, sea may we wars to our Poetry with
boomer, or die is the cause of liberty!
(Need) " WILLIAM AYLMER,
" Cot. Ist Lancers."

MR LANGSONIVLETTIIIIII.
The letters which we subjs..*** 10 at this
Office on Thordday, but at too Titian hour for
publication ou that evening.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING POST.
" Pel[chicon, Vehreity 3,1120.
Sir—Although persoual vindication may not
be deemed a subject of sufficient importance to
claim a place in the co!umos of yottensost respect-
able Journal; yet. ss connected with a inthject of
great and painful intere4; I trust you will give in.
sertion to the following Letter from Me to the
Editor of Carrick's Morning Post, which appeared
in that Paper this day, accompanied by the follow.
big note of the Editor :

' !ail not a relearkettle circumstance that the teller to
Mr. Langan, dated ellth September, idosield not hare or.
rived sooner, it was delayed unit we bed.betlese frmla NV-
garitta of the 13th Nereeibee—(lldleer Meriting Pb.)e
" This Note, calculated to prods's.* suspicion
that my Brother's Letter was withheld for a purpose,
can be satisfactorily answered iu a few wards. :14y
Brother's Letter is stamped ' Plymouth Ship-letter;
and bears also the Dublin Pest-office date of de-
livery here, ' 26th January 1820.'
" 1 am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
~ . il JOllll LANOSON."
•
WO *'HE EDITOR OF CARSICK'S MORNING POST.
" Smt—Tho brown impartiality of yon popular prist,
ken no no dean of year Indiana to inert the follow its
of aa sheen brother, irbasircbaracler sad lemetivl
ardstrs opeleated by a statement iltiaar riblicitin of this
Rey, glarportiog to be an account of gin Moiling at Nor.
vissattle
. ola that report, Cosneseller illaefally is awls to say,
.. Nat nee is (taking ep • ssenipaper) on of the Inters
which has bees produced, sod seed ibis day, as if it no.
wined overwhelming proofs of.-the virtue *and honesty of
°tonal D'Evereoz.'—(Tild niacin letter frost Langooli)
a every Mug mialaind 10 On 'Nine was i Loa.'
"To this coeloamigoollied, astenunoteel, amid anjostillahle
asswhon. 1 041 , nem word ansfansed in Me
tater qf sey in*. op . _/, .
A
"10 eMeeeeieet . ,1 *whim an intention of de-
feadiag Genesi Ibrittscling any other its-
disidoal; my soli 41011111111 Gmtlain Leollowa's
ansensrimn Os Saul est
emiliperlable imputation of
fllsbM4 , y..,... !to . , , I 'lt LO.-
" At Mr.* set of Ninon cogigeetber mitered the Royal
Navy, as 11111dshipotaa, oil beard M. iiMejnty's ship Rodney,
Cassia (eflerwards Admiral Mr George) Burterens, snider
whom be served for nearly four pears. Us Sir 0. Ilortetoies
Ming ordered to the loot ladies, is 1616, ay brwthrt,
"I*" el' be "lini7 wollikofelleaolleitad to be liasofeere4
to some ship ow tlw. North wriest staiiiia—was seal
1 thither, sod weangs‘sd, drisitillilook_

• •
'poses The Giu
t oases* considerable p
eed, accused of- e
.convenience, by a g
r friends, which toe
ess of ealculation con
f growing by 1116
isiouary, let assegai
vet ennobles human
le of self-devoting!. I
r; hie never calculi!
. ell credulous,. for
—nor would he in
o enemy ; but for see
y never held such a
u object.
" On the sohordint
'coeval D'Evereux. a
- Ilect than from the
er a few such genera
g of them must has
ery unprejudiced otos
re complained of, as
. cad herring*, with to
Without disputing the
mong the lower order
cad, or Ireland, as a
to the South America'
accustomed to better
poor, whose labour wil
nuns diet, du not each
and security for the
Military ndventere. di
. were as well, or better F
hen they would have
they had no right to
mat to their services,
but future competent
• provisions is said to Its
pical climate. Neithe
both bring remarkably,
of the Briii.h empire
soldiers or sailors in its
they may he employed
gantts, both men and
driven, by waist of pros
woods, on wild `fruits as
ing, that under the pec
Margartfta was placed
English's expedition,
may be i•ermitted to fc
who have returned were
sheer famine, we cauno
of admiration to that Is
who, by perseverance, I
of imbue, anti (as we I
from Venezuela.) were
proceed to the Main,
active operations. Ant
ream Assuredly this

t tic thst the main spri
heft' the first division
i aUthefilied%.
w, i wiU
d: displaced
Englisl
versinient of Margaritts,
thorny in conj•ncitou
'.. artifice unemployed to
4nd officers of the leg
• General D'Everenx. I
come actinsinted with
know it to have been lil
j: the maicim •De Inort
uot be extended to tl
nocence.
1' If. in contradictin
[ confidently expressed. o
i : meter and motives, an
;' ward and prove him •
selfish baseness, I 'pie
cause, and publish a r
?.' of respect and friends'
ri siocerely, to entertain fc
ly cast my fortune iii tit
service in which he has •
dearer than bob, an it
much native splendour
monteutary cloud ma,
opinion, but its cheer
*lnca ow General I)
i I(s.tali Leiria wilt yet es
i ..earse will Abe banner
• *MU lair. Aso
'At