SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER 
To THE FIFTY-FOURTH VOLUME oF THE 
MONTHLY 
MAGAZINE. 
No. 377.] 
JANUARY 31, 1823. 
[ Price 2s. 
Selections from the Chief Publications of the Hailf-Year. 
_— 
AN 
: HISTORICAL REVIEW 
OF THE 
SPANISH REVOLUTION ; 
Including some Account of 
RELIGION, MANNERS, AND LITERATURE 
IN SPAIN. 
ILLUSTRATED WITH A MAP. 
BY EDWARD BLAQUIERE, ESQ. 
Author of “ Leiters from the Mediterranean,’ Se. 
{Of this honest and able book we have 
already expressed our opinion in the 
Critical Proemium, and we now pro- 
pose to justify that opinion by some ex- 
tracts, which we are persuaded -will 
highly interest our readers. The subject 
of Spain too increases every day in in- 
terest, and every enslaved thinker in 
Europe looks to the energies of the brave 
Spanish people, as the means by which 
public liberty may be extended and fixed 
among all civilized nations. If the 
Spaniards do their duty, do not abuse their 
new-born liberties, and are not betrayed, 
Europe may still be free. Mr. Blaquiere 
has afforded us the means of anticipating 
the probable results, and the glorious 
events of the 7th of last July have in- 
creased the hopes of mankind. Our 
quotations have been liberal, but they 
include not a tythe of the interest con- 
tained in the volume.] 
POPULAR FEELING, 
WwrLe_ passing over the fine Moor- 
ish bridge on the Ebro, which 
leads into Tudela, an immense crowd 
was seen moving slowly under a range of 
trees that shade the public walk: ap- 
proaching nearer, I observed a long pro- 
cession, composed of monks of several 
orders, bearing the host, numerous ban- 
ners, and other religious symbols. These 
were preceded bya train of some hun- 
dred females, dressed in white and veiled : 
a regiment of infantry marched in the 
rear. ‘The whole assembly had just con- 
secrated the lapida, or constitutional 
‘stone, in the great square, and was then 
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taking a circuitous route to the cathedral, 
there to complete the work by singing 
Te Deum. Alighting, with my travelling 
companion, a native of the city, we join- 
ed the procession, and witnessed the re- 
mainder of the ceremony. 
When high-mass had been concluded, 
and the muititude reached the space be- 
fore the edifice, a general viva rent the 
air; this was followed by some bands 
striking up national airs, and. parading 
the streets in different directions: these 
were succeeded by private parties, who 
went about the town, serenading with 
vocal and instrumental music; the even- 
ing terminated in a general illumination, 
It is scarcely necessary to add that the 
population of Zaragoza have exulted, 
with more than ordinary enthusiasm, in 
the restoration of liberty: I had, during 
my short stay, abundant occasions to 
observe this; for, whether I attended 
the religious ceremonies at the magni- 
ficent temples of El Pilar and La Seo, 
entered the theatre, or frequented the 
superb public walks, there was always 
some object or occurrence to remind me 
of the recent change. In the cathedral, 
a priest was appointed to explain the ar- 
ticles of the new political code; nearly 
all the pieces selected for representation 
on the stage, were either composed to 
celebrate, or had an immediate analogy 
to the new order of things; and almost 
every corner presented a placard, on 
which Vive la Constitucion! was in- 
scribed. 
EFFECTS OF BAD GOVERNMENT. 
To form some notion of what bad ° 
government and defective laws have done 
for Spain, it is merely necessary for a 
-traveller to survey the country between 
Zaragoza and Madrid, a distance of one 
hundred and eighty miles. Although the 
rude and strongly built vehicles of the 
country contrive to effect this toilsome 
journey, there is no regular road, until 
you arrive within about forty miles of 
the capital; in other respects, millions of 
acres uncultivated and unenclosed, of a 
soil naturally fertile; a most scanty po- 
4E pulation, 
