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'I am Cabrera, he replied; 'and I am Flinter, I retorted, flourishing my sabre; 'retire to your battalions or you will forthwith die the death. He was awed and did as I commanded. In an hour we surrendered. I was led a prisoner to the Basque provinces; and the Carlists rejoiced in the capture they had made, for the name of Flinter had long sounded amongst the Carlist ranks.
Such men as your countryman, Senor Flinter. There are so many who are stronger Carlists than Don Carlos himself, eh? The secret of conversational success is to defer to one's listener. A clever man imparts information by asking questions, and obtains it without doing so. 'This is my poor house, continued the soldier, and as he spoke he beamed on the sentries at the door.
Discurso escrito y comenzado á leer ante la Comisión del Congreso de los Diputados. Habana, 1890. FLINTER, COLONEL. An Account of the Present State of the Island of Puerto Rico. London, 1834. JIMENO AGIUS, J. Puerto Rico. Madrid, 1890. LEDRU, ANDRÉ PIERRE. Voyage aux iles Ténériffe, la Trinité, St. Thomas, Ste. Croix et Porto Rico, avec des notes et des additions par Sonnini, Paris, 1810.
Departure from Oviedo Villa Viciosa The Young Man of the Inn Antonio's Tale The General and his Family Woful Tidings To- morrow we Die San Vincente Santander An Harangue Flinter the Irishman. So we left Oviedo and directed our course towards Santander.
"In those days," says Colonel Flinter, "if some perfect stranger had dropped from the clouds as it were, on this island, naked, without any other auxiliaries than health and strength, he might have married the next day and maintained a family without suffering more hardships or privations than fall to the lot of every laborer in the ordinary process of clearing and cultivating a piece of land."
"Pardon me, Sir," said a Spaniard who sat at the table, "the curiosity which induces me to request the favour of your distinguished name." "I am Flinter," replied the individual in the military frock, "a name which is in the mouth of every man, woman, and child in Spain. I am Flinter the Irishman, just escaped from the Basque provinces and the claws of Don Carlos.
When you are disposed to ride out upon the sagra, you have only to apply to my groom, who will forthwith saddle you my famed Cordovese entero; I purchased him from the stables at Aranjuez, when the royal stud was broken up. There is but one other man to whom I would lend him, and that man is Flinter."
From the official returns made to the Government in 1828 to 1830, Colonel Flinter drew up the following statement of the agricultural wealth of the island in the latter year : This agricultural wealth of the island, houses, lands, and slaves not included, was valued at $37,993,600, and its annual produce at $6,883,371, half of which was exported.
"Whoever has viewed these fortifications," says Colonel Flinter, "must feel surprised that the English with a force of less than 5,000 men should lay siege to the place, a force not sufficient for a single line along the coast on the opposite side of the bay to prevent provisions from being sent to the garrison from the surrounding country.
There was an illumination that night in the town, for the lion had burst his toils, Flinter had escaped, and was once more returned to re-animate a drooping cause. I have just arrived at Santander on my way to Madrid, where I intend to ask of the government a command, with twenty thousand men." Poor Flinter! a braver heart and a move gasconading mouth were surely never united in the same body.
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