[305] [Ferdinand VII. returned to Madrid in March, 1814. "No sooner was he established on his throne ... than he set himself to restore the old absolutism with its worst abuses. The nobles recovered their privileges ... the Inquisition resumed its activity; and the Jesuits returned to Spain.... A camarilla of worthless courtiers and priests conducted the government, and urged the king to fresh acts of revolutionary violence. For six years Spain groaned under a royalist 'reign of terror.'"—Encycl. Brit., art. "Spain," vol. 22, p. 345.]
[ef] As rose on his remorseless ear the cry.—[MS. erased.]
[eg] {559} The re-awakened virtue——.—[MS. erased.]
[eh] ——is on the shore.—[MS. erased.]
[306] "'St. Jago and close Spain!' the old Spanish war-cry." ["Santiago y serra España.">[
[ei] The wild Guerilla on Morena——.—[MS. erased]
[ej] Of eagle-eyed——.—[MS. erased.]
[307] [Compare Childe Harold, Canto I. stanzas liv.-lvi., Poetical Works, i. 57, 58, 91, 92 (note II). The "man" was Tio Jorge (Jorge Ibort), vide ibid., p. 94.]
[308] {560} The Arragonians are peculiarly dexterous in the use of this weapon, and displayed it particularly in former French wars.
[309] [Vide ante, the Introduction to the Age of Bronze, pp, [537]-540.]