Most gloriously have the Citizens of Saragossa proved that the true army of Spain, in a contest of this nature, is the whole people.

The same city has also exemplified a melancholy--yea a dismal truth; yet consolatory, and full of joy; that,--when a people are called suddenly to fight for their liberty, and are sorely pressed upon,--their best field of battle is the floors upon which their children have played; the chambers where the family of each man has slept (his own or his neighbours'); upon or under the roofs by which they have been sheltered; in the gardens of their recreation; in the street, or in the market-place; before the Altars of their Temples; and among their congregated dwellings--blazing, or up-rooted.
The Government of Spain must never forget Saragossa for a moment.
Nothing is wanting, to produce the same effects every where, but a leading mind such as that city was blessed with.

In the latter contest this has been proved; for Saragossa contained, at that time, bodies of men from almost all parts of Spain.

The narrative of those two sieges should be the manual of every Spaniard: he may add to it the ancient stories of Numantia and Saguntum: let him sleep upon the book as a pillow; and, if he be a devout adherent to the religion of his country, let him wear it in his bosom for his crucifix to rest upon.
Beginning from these invincible feelings, and the principles of justice which are involved in them; let nothing be neglected, which policy and prudence dictate, for rendering subservient to the same end those qualities in human nature which are indifferent or even morally bad; and for making the selfish propensities contribute to the support of wise arrangements, civil and military .-- Perhaps there never appeared in the field more steady soldiers--troops which it would have been more difficult to conquer with such knowledge of the art of war as then existed--than those commanded by Fairfax and Cromwell: let us see from what root these armies grew.

'Cromwell,' says Sir Philip Warwick, 'made use of the zeal and credulity of these persons' (that is--such of the people as had, in the author's language, the fanatic humour); 'teaching them (as they too readily taught themselves) that they engaged for God, when he led them against his vicegerent the King.