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THE

ANALECTIC MAGAZINE.

(NEW SERIES.)

COMPRISING ORIGINAL REVIEWS, BIOGRAPHY, ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS, TRANSLATIONS FROM FRENCH JOURNALS, AND SELECTIONS FROM THE MOST ESTEEMED BRITISH REVIEWS.

VOL. II. NO. VI. DECEMBER, 1820.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JAMES MAXWELL.

THE

ANALECTIC MAGAZINE.

DECEMBER, 1820.

ART. I.-Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution; including a Narrative of the Expedition of general Xavier Mina, &c. &c. By W. S. Robinson. Philadelphia, 1820.

THE principal part of this work, that which relates to the operations of the unfortunate Mina, is compiled from the narrative of Mr. Brush, who accompanied that officer in his expedition. We have entire confidence in the truth of the relation. Mr. Robinson certainly expresses himself with great bitterness against the officers of the royal government of Spain, and therefore cannot be considered a perfectly impartial historian, but the treatment received by him from the Spanish authorities, may well account for and excuse a strong feeling of indignation and abhorrence, and his dislike seems to be accompanied with no unfairness, but to arise from the honest consciousness of having been most undeservedly and barbarously injured.

We shall at present, confine our attention to the story of the romantic Mina, who devoted himself to the cause of liberty with a generous zeal similar in many particulars to that of La Fayette, but with so different a fate. He perished a martyr to freedom, after performing exploits that might haye illustrated a long life, at the early age of twenty-seven.

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