Without any advantages of natural situation; without fortifications; without even a ditch to protect them; with nothing better than a mud wall; with not more than two hundred regular troops; with a slender stock of arms and ammunition; with a leader inexperienced in war;--the Citizens of Saragossa began the contest.

Enough of what was needful--was produced and created; and--by courage, fortitude, and skill rapidly matured--they baffled for sixty days, and finally repulsed, a large French army with all its equipments.

In the first siege the natural and moral victory were both on their side; nor less so virtually (though the termination was different) in the second.

For, after another resistance of nearly three months, they have given the enemy cause feelingly to say, with Pyrrhus of old,--'A little more of such conquest, and I am destroyed.' If evidence were wanting of the efficacy of the principles which throughout this Treatise have been maintained,--it has been furnished in overflowing measure.

A private individual, I had written; and knew not in what manner tens of thousands were enacting, day after day, the truths which, in the solitude of a peaceful vale, I was meditating.