Mr. Jacob's Letiers from Spain. 
Englishman who has been many years 
settled in this city, under the patronage 
of the Spanish court; and, as he possesses 
perseverance and integrity ina yery high 
degree, le has carried the establisliment 
to a very deen extent, and the 
convent of St. Diego was granted bim by 
the government for the purpose of his 
manufactory. My, Wetherell unites the 
various trades of tanner, currier, fell- 
monger, saddler, boot-maker, glover, 
eartouche-box and belt-maker, in which 
branches he constantly employs about 
four hundred men. As he works for the 
army, he is allowed to protect forty men, 
under forty-five years of age, from the 
conscription ; the remainder is composed 
either of men above that age or of foreign? 
ers: among the latter are some Germans, 
and several Frenchmen, towards whom 
the animosity of the Spaniards is sq great, 
that they are only kept from violence by 
working in separate apartments, 
Mr. Wetherell is a very liberal and be- 
nevolent man, and pays his labourers 
high wages, which are spent hot in liquor, 
as with us, but in dress and finery for 
their Sunday and holiday promenade, 
Such is the sobriety of these people, that’ 
though a cask of rum stands constantly 
in the workshops, to which all may ap- 
ply when they please, no complaints of 
excess or drunkevness have ever been 
made. This manufactory produces, 
weekly, eight hundred cured ox-hides, 
and a proportionate quantity of the skins 
of horses, deer, sheep, goats, lambs, 
and kids; some of which are sold in the 
form of leather, but the greater part are 
converted, within the manufactory, to 
the different articles for which they are 
calculated. Instead of oak bark the 
inner bark of the cork tree is used in 
fanning, and is found to answer the pur- 
pose; but, as.it contains less of the tan- 
nine property, about one-third more of it 
is requisite tocure the leather; itis sup- 
plied from Palamonos, a river between 
Gibraltar and Malaga, where the price 
is about seventy-five shillings per ton. 
Though Mr, Wetherell is known to be 
A protestant, and the only one in Seville, 
he has passed upwards of twenty years 
there without any molestation on account 
of his religion, which may in some mea- 
suse bevascribed to the excellence of his 
character, but which [think also reflects 
some honour on the Jiberality or the Spar 
nish people. 
SEVILLE LITERATURE, 
The baoksellers inhabit a street called 
Calle Genova, and are as badly fargished 
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as other traders. Most books of value 
are printed in Madrid; and, from the 
present state of the intercourse between 
the two capitals, caunot be conveyed. 
hither without incurring great risk. The 
principal stock consists, of old books of 
divinity, lives of saints, dissertations on 
the antiquities of the country, and a very 
few bad editions of the Latin Classics, 
You will be surprised to be informed, 
thatin this city the only map of Spain § 
could procure was, a very bad.one, pubs 
lished in London. I remarked in lookin 
over the catalogues of the different books 
sellers, that I did not see a single book 
in the Greek language ; a pretty convin- 
cing proof that the knowledge of it ig 
this country must be ata very low ebb, 
BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, 
I have frequently heard people relating, 
with indescribable emotions, the fears, 
the hopes, the agitations, andthe mourns 
ings, which occupied those few, but ine 
teresting, days when the united fleets of 
France and Spain last sailed from Cadiz; 
amidst the prayers and benedictions of 
the people, with the vain expectation of 
vanquishing the foe who had so long held 
them imprisoned within their own fortis 
fications. The day they sailed all was 
expectation and anxiety, The succeed- 
ing day increased the suspense, and 
wound up the feelings of the people ale 
most to a state of phrenzy. The third 
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day brought intelligence that the hostile - 
fleets were approaching each other, with 
all the preparations of determined hos- 
tility. The ships were not visible from 
the ramparts, but the crowds of citizens 
assembled there had their ears assailed 
by the roaring of the distant cannon ; the 
anxiety of the females bordered on insg- 
nity, but more of despair than of hope 
was visible in every countenance, Ag 
this dreadful moment, a sound, louder 
than any that had preceded it and ate 
tended with a columa of dark smoke, an- 
nounced that a ship had exploded. The 
madness of the people was turned to rage 
against England ; and exclaimations burse 
forth, denouncing instant death to eyery 
man who spoke the language of theip 
enemies. Two Americans, who had 
mixed with the people, fled, and hid 
themselves, to avoid this ebullition of 
popular fury, which, however, subsided 
into the calmuess of despair, when the 
thunder of the cannon ceased, ‘They had 
no hope of conquest, no cheering expege 
tations of greeting their victorious gqun, 
trymen, nor of sharing triumphal Igyrsle 
wiih those who had been ag AUS in. 
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