Sir John Carr’s Travels in Spain. 
General Doyle then read another, the 
fast note but one, he had at that time 
received from Palafox: it was written at 
Pamplona, to which place he had been 
removed by the enemy in his way to 
Paris, and was dated March 13. “ My 
dearest Doyle, my friend, my brother, 
for God’s sake send me by the bearer, or 
by letter on Bayonne, some money. 
You know how long’a journey is before 
me, and the moment will arrive whea [ 
shall beg charity. This is the only com- 
fort I can now receive from your good 
heart. My dearest friend they have 
robbed me to the very shirt. Adieu, 
adieu, adieu!”—The face of Augustina, 
“which, as [ have observed, is reinarkable 
for its sweetness, assumed a mingled ex- 
pression of commiseration for her hero, 
and revenge against his enemies, Her 
eyes, naturally soft, flashed with peculiar 
fire and animation; tears rolled down 
her cheeks, and elasping her hands, as 
the last word, “adieu” was repeated, 
she exclaimed ‘* Ou, those base invaders 
of my country, those oppressors of its 
best of patriots! should the fate of war 
place any of them within my power, I 
will instantly deliver up their throats to 
the knife.” General Doyle was much 
impressed with the manner in which she 
uttered this fierce denunciation, a man- 
ner that can leave but little doubt of her 
‘arrying it into execution, should an op- 
eae offer. Soon afterwards the 
vusband of Augustina entered, who had 
been severely wounded during the sieges, 
accompanied by a youth, a nobleman, 
anda cousin of Palafox: when the se- 
cond siege took place, this young man 
was at college, which, upon the irruption 
of the French, he abrup:!y quitted, and, 
after having ac himself at Rio 
Sico, under General Cuesta,with scarcely 
any money, and little food and cloathing, 
he made his way to Zaragoza, and fought 
under his noble relative with enthusiastic 
bravery. It does not often fall to the 
lot of a traveller to meet with occur- 
rences such as I have related, and to sce 
a group of persons, so distinguished for 
their intrepidity and patriotism. Au- 
gistina calls ierself the Woman of Za- 
Fagoza: she occasionally wears the dress 
of the service into which she has entered, 
the artillery, but modestly preservés the 
petticoat, One evening as she was 
walking alone in this habit, in oné of the 
streets of Cadiz, with her sabre by her 
side, a man attracted by her beauty, fol- 
‘lowed’ her @ considerable way, upon 
‘which, offended at his impeitinence, she 
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turned round, and, drawing her sabre, 
with great calmness, but determination, 
told him, that if he followed her another 
step, she would cut him down. The de- 
sire of this gay, but not gallant, Lothario, 
was Instantly turned into fear, and he 
fled from the object of his wishes, as fast 
as his legs could carry hin. She was. 
proceeding to Seville, to be presented to 
the Central Junta, for the purpose of 
soliciting a higher appointment in the 
patriotic army.* 
ASPECT OF TIE COUNTRY. | 
Our ride to Seville was four leagues, 
and continued for the greatest part over 
a dreary, bladeless, fat, plain, then 
parched up, but which in the winter is 
in several parts overflown by the Guas 
dalquivir: this was a short cut, and out 
of the bigh road. So barren. was the 
scene, that the only objects which excited | 
notice were several stone wells, which 
frequently appear; for, the purpose of 
supplying troughs with water for the 
cattle. In the country approaching to 
Seville, may be traced some appearance 
of the baneful effects of the blind impo- 
licy of the Spaniards in neglecting agri- 
culture, in favour of their sheep. Enys 
land and other countries have been fore 
merly infested with wolves and other 
ravenous beasts. Spain may be said to 
be devoured by the meekest of all ani- 
mals, by sheep, which are permitted to 
riot in and impoverish a region, which, 
on account of its richness and fertility, 
the ancients in the warmth of imagi- 
nation, determined to have been the 
garden of the Hesperides, and the site of 
the Elysian fields. It seems to.be agreed 
by almost all writers on Spain, that the 
zra of the Mussulmam government of 
that country, was by far the most brils 
liant in its history; and that agriculture 
' * The following energetic’ lines were write 
ten upon this amiable and intrepid female, 
by Mr. Joseph Blacket, a distinguished, but, 
alas! a departed, genius, in a’ poem called 
the Fall of Zaragoza, which, with some 
other poems, have just been rescued from ob 
Jivion by the benevolence of Mr. Pratt. 
Oh! heaven-born heroine, 
Fair Augustina, bold heroic niaid! 
Thine is the beauteous form, but warrior’s 
soul ; 
Thine the re-animating gen’rous pride, 
Like fam’d Camilla, nobly to dea! forth 
Destroying vengeance on thy country’s foes; 
Back to the breast’of fainting courage call 
The curdling blood, and bid thy brothers, 
armed, 
Or die or triumph with thee! 
especially 
