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Palgrave MacMillan John Kembles Gibraltar Journal The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles 1830-1831 2015 Edition by E. Nye
The summer of 1830 stirred revolutionary desires in young hearts across Europe. More than a generation of war and political instability had failed to dampen the fervor still felt from the French Revolution. In England the Cambridge Apostles took up the cause of the Spanish emigres so movingly visible in London where they had sought refuge from the tyranny of Ferdinand VII and his suppression of constitutional rights. The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles has always captured our imaginations. Its blend of idealism and daring, of theory and practice, of thought and energy, seems perfectly to fulfill the principles the Apostles steadfastly espoused, a combination of faith and works. The episodes comprised in most accounts of the expedition are symbolic and filled with intrigue: secret meetings, assumed names, hidden messages, contraband, narrow escapes from the authorities, treachery, and finally a bloody execution on the beach at Malaga. A host of newly-discovered documents now enable us to re-examine one of the most intriguing events in British intellectual history. Table of contents :- 1. Introduction 2. John Kemble's Gibraltar Journal 3. Appendix One: The Dunedin Letter Album 4. Appendix Two: Thoughts on the Foreign Policy of England by Jacob Sternwall. London: James Ridgway, Piccadilly. 1827 5. Appendix Three: The events surrounding the seizure of the schooner Mary 6. Appendix Four: John Mitchell Kemble to Fanny Kemble: letters in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, W.b. 596 7. Appendix Five: The Testimony of Dona Luisa Saenz de Viniegra de Torrijos, Vida del General Jose Maria de Torrijos y Uriarte (2v, Madrid: Manuel Minuesa, 1860) 8. Appendix Six: Malaga and after: selections from Bodleian Library MS. Eng. lett. b.4 40476 Bibliography Index