Mr. Jacob’s Letters from Spain. 
also some young men from the Lothians 
in Scotland: and with these labourers he 
“conducts his farms to advantage, and 
has introduced all the improvements 
which have been recently practised by 
the best agriculturists in Great Britain. 
THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY. 
' The day after my arrival I waited on 
our ambassador, the Marquis Wellesley, 
who received me with dignified, but not 
distant, politeness: his conversation dis- 
covered an accurate knowledge, and 
_ comprehensive view, of the state of Spain, 
while his liberal conduct, and uniform 
attention to his countrymen, must en- 
sure him their respect and esteem, The 
arrival of this celebrated nobleman in 
Seville, produced an extraordinary sen- 
sation, a sensation certainly neither pre- 
pared nor fostered by the body to whom 
he was sent, whose narrow souls were 
jealous of his character, and apprehen- 
sive lest his powerful talents should de- 
tect, and expose their contracted policy 
and futile projects. All the respectable 
inhabitants of the city, among whom were 
many of those men whose information, 
patriotism, and energetic minds, had 
planned and effected the first revolution, 
became the leaders onhis occasion also, 
and conducted the triumphal entry ef the 
British minister. Seville was emptied 
of its population, and the expecting 
crowds patiently endured, without the 
city, the heat of the sun, the privation 
of their meals, and of their siesta, and 
tranquilly waited from morning till dusk, 
to welcome the approach of a man whose 
high rank and distinguished capacity 
were considered as pledges of the gene- 
yous and disinterested intentions of the 
monarch he represented. 
The shouts of the people, and the ac- 
clamations of the multitude, were genu- 
ine and unequivocal demonstrations of 
the strong feelings of the nation; but the 
conduct of their rulers discovered merely 
that routine of compliments which the 
hojlow intrigues of a court may teach, 
‘but which he, who had ruled such courts 
in India, knew in what manner to appre- 
ciate. The welcome of Lord Wellesley 
fat Cadiz had perhaps been increased by 
the news of his brother's victory at Tala- 
Vera; and certainly one cause of his 
lordship’s enthusiastic reception in that 
City may be attributed to that fortu- 
Nate occurretice ; but at Seville all was 
pure, unmixed joy for the arrival ofa 
tan whose nation was venerated, whose 
Character had preceded him, and to 
Whose high qualisies they looked up for 
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deliverance from the government of a 
body of men fortuitously raised to the 
unlimited exercise of the executive and 
legislative power of a great nation. 
THE SUPREME JUNTA. 
Garay, the secretary of state, seems 
a man of plain goaod sense, without 
finesse, and tolerably assiduous in busis 
ness; he is very accessible, and, as his 
cabinet is in the apartment adjoining to 
that in which Senora Garay holds her 
evening parties, persons, who come to 
him on public business in the evening, - 
are amused by conversing with the ladies 
till their turn for admission to the minise 
ter arrive. At Senora Garay’s evening 
party, called the Tertulla, there is ge« 
nerally some good company, with a cons 
siderable mixture of vulgar-looking meng 
dressed in boots ana shabby military unie 
forms, and smoaking segars. The ladies 
as well as Garay are fugitives from Mas 
drid, who, following their husbands, and 
fathers, have assembled at Seville, 
Though among this party evident marks 
of departed grandeur are visible, no ree 
pining is heard; they bear their situation 
with resignation, and only vent their feel- 
ings in execrating the French, The. 
apartments occupied. by Garay, are ia 
the Alcazar, or antient palace, and are 
literally destitute of all furniture excepé 
a great number of common chairs, witla 
Tush bettoms, and’ one small table on 
which the lights are placed. The walls 
have some few arabesque ornaments and 
inscriptions. The floors are of brick; 
and the only part that looks respectable 
is a dour covered with crimson damask, 
which was put up.when the late Kin 
Charles the Fourth occupied these aparte 
ments, 
The Mareuis bE Vitter, another 
member of the Junta, whom [ have free 
quently visited, was, for a short time, go= 
vernor of Cadiz, but rendered himself so 
obnoxious that he was forced to abscond ; 
he interfered with too many of the volup- 
tuous pleasures of that city, and, having 
attempted to lengthen the petticoats of 
the actresses, and cover the necks of 
some of the ladies of rank, he became 
so gerierally odious that he could remain 
there no longer, His stupidity, bis frie 
volous turn of mind, and his ignorance, 
unfit him for any office requiring mental 
exertion, and yet, it is said, that he has 
considerable weight in the Juata, 
Count Titi, one of the representa- 
tives from Seville, was known there only 
from his ill-gotten wealth, and his genes 
rally profligate character; he was, howe 
ever, 
