SHOOTING IN SPAIN. 189 



CHAPTER XIV. 



SHOOTING IN SPAIN, NEAR SEVILLE. 



DURING the early part of the year 18 , I was invited by an 

 eccentric, but talented gentleman,* now numbered with the 

 dead, but whose name stands recorded on one of the hand- 

 some portals of the Louvre, leading into a gallery dedicated 

 alone to the magnificent bequest made by him to the late 

 king Louis Philippe, or rather to the French nation, of his 

 splendid collection of books, pictures, and works of art, col- 

 lected in different countries, but chiefly in Spain, to accom- 

 pany him on a proposed trip to Seville, a favourite residence 

 of his," and ' to remain with- him' there as long as I felt 

 disposed. 



I need not say how - eagerly I accepted the invitation, 

 and embraced the opportunity of visiting this .interesting 

 city under such favourable auspices. The voyage by steam 

 to Cadiz, and from thence by land to Seville/ was performed 

 in the most agreeable manner; and I found myself installed 

 in a comfortable and luxurious dwelling, surrounded by the 

 works of art belonging to the owner, and introduced to some 

 of the best society of the city. 



After having satiated my curiosity with all the ancient 

 and interesting monuments, architectural and otherwise, for 

 which Seville is so eminently celebrated, and so full of 

 romantic and historical souvenirs, ray old sporting mania 

 returned with full force, and I felt very anxious for an 

 opportunity not only to see something of the interior of the 



The late Frank Hall Standish, Esq., of Duxbuiy Park, Lancashire. 



