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couragement of learning. He was also 
the.chief means-of making the few good 
yoads thar [am told are in Spain; and 
he endeavoured to provide mvre accom- 
modation to the traveller at the inns or 
ventas, than which worse cannot be 
found in Europe. 
I will extract from the Seville Gazette, 
which I have received since { began this, 
a few paragraphs more descriptive of his 
character; it will give you an idea of 
Spanish newspaper biography. ** The 
study and exercise of jurisprudence, in 
which he shewed-bis talents and exqui- 
site erudition, opened to him a career of 
public employinent,-and the deserved 
fame which he attained. His name, ac- 
companied every day by new honours ac- 
quired in the delicate undertakings of 
the crown, drew him from. the narrow 
Jimits of the tribunal; and, he was ap- 
pointed by the wise choice of Charles ILL, 
to be minister plenipot€ntiary to the 
court of Rome, where his name and his 
lities will ever-be indelibly established, 
Phe king called him trom thence to be 
his first secretary of state, and to him 
are.indebted the arts, sciences, industry, 
‘and all the branches of public, felicity 
whieh his beneficent hand had erected, 
and which twenty years of neglect, dis- 
erders, and-anti-national tyranny, could 
not destroy. ‘The envy of the man, who. 
from a favourite became a despot, drove 
him from the court; but the count showed 
that fortitude could not, be separated 
from wisdom. Retired, but not forgot- 
ten, ‘the count: lived until the necessity 
ef the monarchy and a national voice 
called him to Aranjuez to form the Su- 
preme Central Junta, of which he. was 
chosen president. In this elevated situa- 
tiou,. he dedicated his care, his zeal, 
znd his patriotism, which the weight of 
his years could not extinguish, to conso- 
lidate the national representation, which 
was to save tlie country from the invasion 
of the tyrant, aird from the consequences 
ef anarchy, more powerfur and terrible 
than bisarms. In Seville is his tomb, 
and with it remains tlie memory of the 
affectionate regards with which he leit 
his afflicted country, and the deceitful 
world,” 
Sanuary 28, 1899. 
This morving i had a cruise in the bay, 
and visited Port St. Mary, which is eight 
miles across... My friend F- accoin- 
panied me, but we had a tedious passage. 
Yhe morning was delightfully fine and 
the wind fair, (Fahrenbeit was 66° at 
eight o’clock); but when we got about - 
Journal of a recent Voyage to Cadiz. 
[Feb. 1, 
half way over, the atmosphere became 
suddenly clouded, it rained a torrent, 
and the wind opposed us.. The oars were 
then used until we came near some 
breakers, when all at once the.boatmen 
ceased. rowing,’ folded their arms, and 
were silent. Lt was explained tous that 
at this moment we were crossing the bar, 
whicb is always considered dangerous ta 
pass, and tbat the sailors were prayings 
accoiding to invariable custom, when: 
they geton it. Lown I didnot like this, 
suspension’ of labour, for the breakers 
were foaming around us; and instead of 
the boatmen being careful to avoid ace 
cident, it shoyld seem that by their~neg- 
lect they rather sought for it. 
The English sailors often have a duck- 
ing when -they go to Port St. Mary for 
water; owing, no douht, to their not 
being acquainted with the bar; and) it, 
has happened often since I have been. 
here; particularly the other day, when 
Captain ——, of the frigate, “was. 
conveying home some Spanish ladies. 
whom he had entertained on board his 
ship; his boat struck on the bar, it was 
upset, and the-cockswain was drowned. 
The captain, and his fair companions, 
were saved by the sailors, and some boats, 
that put off from the shore, and landed 
amid the smiles of the Spaniards, who, 
imputed this cireumstance to heresy. : 
. We entered the town by a flight. of 
wooden steps, where there is a barrier, 
attended by priests and officers, who ex-» 
ainine passports and search luggage: we. 
paid asmall fee, aud wenton, We, were 
soon surrounded by crowds of beggars;. _ 
and we could easily admit their impors 
tunities when we had walked through the 
town. cites “ni 
Although a governor resides there, and 
it is an important place, being the first. 
that communicates immediately with the, 
initerior from Cadiz, itis a most wretched 
dirty town, and almost deserted by the 
male inhabitants ; groupes of men, wos. 
men, and children, were basking inthe. 
sun in filth and misery. pa 
_ The surrounding country is rather pice 
turesque, and interspersed with the ver= 
dure of the olive and the fir; quantities 
of vegetables and fruit are produced in 
the neighbourhood for the supply ot Cay, 
diz; but it has no manufactures. Tere 
is an amphitheatre for the bull-fight, a 
town-hall, (a large building of amean ap- 
pearance) and a convent of Carthusian 
friars. his fraternity is not-numerous,, 
there being only about thirty now be-, 
longmg to the order. Their income is 
_ considgable 
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