iz: RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



over them, list in hand, I could see nothing of the 

 jewellery, plate, or above all of a splendid album, 

 the cover of which was enriched with precious 

 stones, and which contained drawings by the leading 

 French artists. It was a family present given to the 

 Infanta upon her marriage. I was told that, " ragged 

 as you see us, we stored all the most valuable articles 

 into carts and slept upon them, taking the jewellery 

 and plate the next morning to the Ministry of Finance, 

 and the album to the National Library." I arranged 

 with the young Polytechnician to have the whole 

 taken to the Spanish Embassy, and gave a receipt for 

 what was deposited in the Treasury and the Library, 

 the transfer taking place without any difficulty. 



After taking leave of M. de Lamartine and arming 

 myself with letters of introduction for the authorities 

 of the departments bordering on Spain, I went all 

 along the frontier from Bayonne to Perpignan, in 

 order to make sure that no revolutionary propaganda 

 was being prepared for Spain, in accordance with the 

 conditions which had been frankly accepted by 

 M. de Lamartine and his secretary, M. Bastide. 



"We did not know what view other States would 

 take of the revolution which had just occurred, and 

 we had every interest to keep up friendly relations 

 with Spain, as in the event of any difficulty with 

 other Powers, this would dispense us from the neces- 

 sity of keeping an army upon the frontier. 



Having spent eight years in Andalusia and Cata- 



