1831.] 



Domestic and Foreign. 



451 



wards was a Marshal of France and not the evil complained of but that 

 Prince of the empire. In spite of the the great are not content with the en- 

 joyment of their property, and the na- 

 'tural power it brings with it, but they 



eternal details of the old French revo- 

 lution, the tale is sufficiently readable 

 Mrs. G. has spirit, knowledge and exe- 

 cution. 



The Extraordinary Black Book. By 

 the Original Editor In this department 

 of our miscellany we have little to do 



power 



must rule, willy-nilly, and what they 

 cannot accomplish by fair means, they 

 scruple not to do by foul. The days of 

 pension, and monopoly, and boroughs, 

 are fast vanishing and the noble must, 

 like the mean, take care of their own 



.,. ,, . i . . i -I j - JL1IYC I* -lit U4CttAA4 l/l*IYW .(**.!>* v VW*A w 



S t t? J Ll2SSj65 IlSH er ?,7 ^"vf! families, and not saddle them upon the 



community. 



A very large proportion of the Black 

 Book rests, for its authority, upon offi- 

 cial documents themselves often incor- 

 rect, but not guilty of ouer-statements. 



of the publication before us. I he 

 Black Book appeared some years ago, 

 originally in driblets, and, when radi- 

 calism was less in fashion, excited no 

 common attention, and drew the regards 

 of many, for the first time, to corrup- 

 tions nor did the detection of repeated 



A Year in Spain, by a Young American, 



blunders very much lesson its credit. 2 vols These two" agreeable volumes 



Essentially, the abuses, which it is the pro f ess to be the production of a young 



object of the book to expose, are now American, who spent a twelvemonth in 



admitted on all hands, except only by Spairii partl for the gratification of a 



those who benefit by them, and even ii bera i curiosity, and partly to acquire 



numbers of them can no longer muster the i an ^ uaCTe become in the United 



assurance enough to maintain black is States f vast importance, from their 

 white, and corruption purity. The g row ing connections with the South. 



The of the yo American ex- 



lected m a single volume a new work tended along the eastern coast to Valen- 

 m fact better arranged, better exe- cia aml from thence to Madrid, where 



cuted, more correct in its details ; and he ed the w i nte r, mixing, 



ppa- 

 bler 



, , 



though still abounding in small mis- rent iy 5 mos tly among the hum 

 takes, inevitable in such an undertaking, c i asses _he had no grand introductions 

 and shewing an unwise leaning to con- _ and with the first trave llmg weather 



found things essentially distinct, is yet 

 backed by such irrefragable testimony 



in the spring, made excursions to Tole- 

 do, Segovia, &c. ; and finally quitted 



Cadiz. Full of the superiority of his 

 own country, the writer a very intelli- 



and authorative documents, as to de- th ; co 2 ntTy ' by the way of Seville and 

 serve the serious regard of every one 

 who considers that the interests of the 



whole community should alone be the gent person finds abundant "grounds 

 governing principle of its public msti- jp or dep l ring the condition of the Spa- 

 tutions. niards ascribing all, and fairly enough, 



It is idle to talk of bringing things to the institutions that have crushed 

 back to some far distant point of pu- their energies. The priests generally 

 rity. It matters not how affairs were in the larger towns amount to two per 

 managed, good or bad, some hundred cent, of the population. "Whole regions 

 years ago. The real question is, what are in a state of comparative desolation, 



and much of the country looks more so 

 than it really is, from the absence of 

 woods. La Mancha is stript bare, and 

 very much of the interior, from a preju- 



does common sense demand for the secu- 

 rity of the common rights and best in- 

 terests of the existing community ? That 

 demands and it is the pervading cry 



of the country -not any change in the dice of the natives against trees, as bar- 

 constitution of the government, but the bouring birds. This is a most woeful 

 sweeping away of its corruptions, and prejudice ; for the central parts of the 

 the realizing of the theory of it. By country consist generally of a high table- 

 that theory every man is equal under land exposed and dry naturally, and 

 the law every man governs by his re- made ten times more so by the absence 

 presentative, and every man is" eligible of shade and foliage. Valencia alone 

 to office. By the practice of the day, presents the appearance of a cultivated 

 nothing like such equality exists ; the and opulent region. Corn, fruits, flax, 

 whole government is monopolized by a hemp, and cotton, abound ; and mul- 

 small knot of exclusionists, who tax as berry-trees, that produce silk to the 

 they like, and pocket the produce, till amount of a million and half of pounds, 

 pluralists, placemen, pensioners, and The extraordinary fertility is attributed 

 sinecurists, all of the " order," cover the A Al 

 land, and cut away the sources of all 

 fair pretension. Inequalities of pro- 

 perty, and that to great extents, must berry-trees are stript three times a year 

 always exist, and inequalities of per- clover and lucerne mown eight, "and 

 sonal influence in proportion that is even ten times citrons of 6lbs., and 



3 M 2 



to the system of irrigation. The rivers 

 are almost wholly poured upon the crops, 

 and with so much success, that mul- 



