456 J. W. WARD [1809. 



hurry put a cipher too much) to accomplish it in the 

 first instance, and half that number to retain what he 

 lias got afterwards. Now, my own opinion, I confess, 

 is, that in a very short time he will be as completely 

 master of the Peninsula as he is of Holland. 



" The people of property will soon find out that it 

 is much better to enjoy it under a new dynasty, and 

 protected by the powerful arm of France, than to 

 go on with a hopeless struggle under the auspices of 

 such blockheads as for the most part compose the 

 Junta. 



" The people of talents will go, like O'Farel, Morla, 

 and Cabarrus, to the highest bidder, which is sure to 

 be the Government of France.""" As to the populace, 

 it will follow the higher orders, from which it never 

 for long together estranges itself. As to the religion, 

 it is always in the power of the French to bag the 

 lower, and, of course, most numerous class of the 

 clergy, by the spoils of the fewer and richer. Church 

 property is very unequally divided in Spain, and the 

 poor ecclesiastics look with envy and hatred at the 

 wealth of the great bishoprics and overgrown chap- 

 ters. Joseph, too, will probably go through some 

 grievances, and pay some public respect to saints' 

 relics, &c., such as will convince the people that he 

 is a mighty good Catholic as well as a victorious and 

 beneficent sovereign. Hatred, then, to the French, 



* Francois de Cabarrus, properly a native of France, was born in 

 r.ayniiiH', but connected with Spain, where he set his mark as a finan- 

 cier burn 1752, died 1810. 



