SEVILLE. 



Twenty prebendaries, with an income of thirty thoufand 

 reals each. 



Twenty-one minor canons, at twenty thoufand reaU 

 each. 



Befide thefe, they have twenty chanters, called Veinte- 

 neros, with three affiftants, called Sochantres, two beadles, 

 one mailer of the ceremonies, with a deputy, three attend- 

 ants to ciU the roll and mirk the abfentees, thirty-fix 

 boys for fingin^ and for the fervice of the altar, with their 

 reftor, vice-rettor, and mufic-mafters ; nineteen chaplains, 

 four curates, four confeiTors, twenty-three muficians, and 

 four fupernumeraries ; in all, two hundred and thirty-five. 



Many of the convents are remarkable for the beauty of 

 their architedure ; but, in Seville, the eye covets only 

 piftures, and amidtl the profufion of thefe, it overlooks 

 works, which in other fituations would rivet the attention, 

 and every where fixes on the pencil of Murillo. His moll 

 famous performances are in the Hofpital de la Caridad, and, 

 fuited to the inftitution, exprefs fome adls of charity ; fuch 

 as the Miracle of the Loaves and Fifties ; the fmiting of 

 the Rock in Horeb ; the Pool of Bethefda ; the Reception 

 of the returning Prodigal ; Abraham addrefling the three 

 Angels, and preffing them to enter his habitation ; the 

 Deliverance of Peter from the Prifon ; and Charity, in the 

 perfon of Elizabeth, waftiing the wounds and curing the 

 difeafes of the poor. Befide thefe, in the fame hofpital, 

 is the Annunciation of the blefled Virgin ; and two little 

 piAures, the one of the infant Jefus, the other of John. 



The church of the Capuchins is richly furnilhed with 

 his works ; and although in thefe the compofition is more 

 fimple than in the former, yet they may be confidered as 

 fome of the bed of his produdions. Eleven of his pic- 

 tures are to be feen in a chapel called de la Vera Cruz, 

 belonging to the Francifcans. Thefe do much credit to 

 his pencil ; and not inferior to them, are many preferred 

 in other convents ; fuch as, an Ecce Homo, and the blefTed 

 Virgin, with the infant Jefus, in the church of the Car- 

 melites ; the Fhght into Egypt, in that of La Merced Cal- 

 zada ; a rich variety of fubjeds in S. Maria de la Blanca ; 

 and S. Auguftin writing, with S. Thomas of Villanueva, 

 ftripping himfelf to clothe the poor, in the convent of the 

 Auguftin friars, near the gate of Carmona. In the opinion 

 of Mr. Townfend, the moll mallerly of all his works is in 

 the refeAory of an hofpital defigned for the reception of 

 fuperannuated priells. It reprefents an angel holding a 

 balket to the infant Jefus, who. Handing on his mother's 

 lap, takes bread from it to feed three venerable priells. 

 No reprefentation ever approached nearer to real life, nor 

 is it poflible to fee more expreflion, than glows upon that 

 canvas. In the parochial church of Santa Cruz are two 

 piAures in a fuperior llyle, a Stabat Mater Dolorofa, 

 which excels in grace and foftnefs ; and the famous De- 

 fcent from the Crofs, of Pedro de Campana, which Murillo 

 was accu Homed daily to admire, and oppofite to which, 

 by his own diretlions, he was buried. 



This great painter was born AD. i6i8, and died in 

 1682. 



His name Hands high in Europe ; but to form an ade- 

 quate idea of his excellence, every convent fhould be vifited, 

 where he depofited the monuments of his fuperior fkill. 



In exaftsefs of imitation he was equalled ; in claro ob- 

 fcuro, and in refleCled lights, he was furpaffed by Velaz- 

 quez ; but not one of all the Spanilh artiits went beyond 

 him in tendernefs and foftnefs. 



Of the convents, that which is upon the moll extenfive 

 fcale belongs to the Francifcans. It contains fifteen cloif- 



ters, many of which are elegant and fpacious, with apart- 

 ments for two hundred monks ; but at prefent they have 

 only one hundred and forty in their community. Thefe, 

 like all their order, are fed by charity, and are much 

 favoured by the people. Their annual expenditure is more 

 than four hundred thoufand reals, or in Iterling about four 

 thoufand pounds, amounting to twenty-eight pounds eleven 

 fhillings and five-pence for each. But then out of this mull 

 be dedufted the expence of wine, oil, and wax, with the 

 alms dillributed daily to the poor, which altogether is con- 

 fiderable. 



Among all the hofpitals, Mr. Townfend was rood pleafed 

 with that of La Sangre, defigned for the reception of female 

 patient"!. The front is elegant, and the fculpture is much 

 to be admired, more efpecially the three figures of Faith, 

 Hope, and Charity. The wards are fpacious, and the 

 whole is remarkable for neatnefs. 



Our limits will not allow our introducing particular de- 

 fcriptions of other public buildings ; fuch as the Torre del 

 Oro, the Plaza de Toros, the AqueduA with its four 

 hundred and ten arches, and efpecially the Exchange. The 

 latter, planned by Herrera (A.D. 1598), and worthy of 

 its great archited, is a quadrangle of two hundred feet, 

 with a corridor or fpacious gallery round it, adorned with 

 Ionic columns, and fupported by an equal number of 

 Doric. 



The univerfity was founded in the year 1502, and foon 

 rofe into confideration. The name of Arias Montanus, 

 who lies buned at the convent of S. Jago, is alone fuffi- 

 cient to give celebrity to this feminary. His tranflation of 

 the holy fcriptures will be valued by the learned, as long 

 as the fcriptures themfelves fliall be the objeAs of venera- 

 tion to mankind. The number of under-graduates here is 

 about five hundred. 



We meet at Seville with the favourite inftitutions of 

 count Campomanes, his academy for the three noble art$ 

 of painting, fculpture, and architefture, and his economi- 

 cal fociety of the friends of their country. Both thefe 

 have been attended with fuccefs, and have given alTillance 

 not only to the arts, but to agriculture, to manufaAures, 

 and to commerce. About two hundred pupils attend the 

 former. 



The alcazar, or royal palace, built by the Moors, is very 

 fpacious. The principal article of manufaAure in Seville is 

 fnuff; and it furnilhes alfo cigars to a very confiderable 

 amount. The filk manufaAure was alfo formerly very 

 flourilhing in this place ; fo that in the year 1248 item- 

 ployed 16,000 looms, and 130,000 perfons ; and fuch was 

 then the population of the city, that the Moors who left 

 it, when it was furrendered to the Chrillians, were 400,000, 

 befides multitudes who died during a fixtcen months' fiege, 

 and many who remained after their fellow-citizens were 

 gone. But in confequence of the accumulation of taxes 

 and other circumftances, the number of looms has been 

 very much diminifhed ; fo that A.D. 1740, the looms 

 for wide filks amounted to 462, and for other purpofes 

 to 1856. 



The country round the city to a confiderable diftance lies 

 fo low, that It is frequently overflowed, and upon fome 

 occafions the water has been eight feet high, even in their 

 habitations. The foil is rich, and being at the fame time 

 very deep, its fertility is inexhauftible. The produce it 

 corn, leguminous plants, hemp, flax, lemons, oranges and 

 liquorice. The quantity of this exported from Spain is 

 faid to be annually not lefs than four thoufand quintals, 

 or nearly two hundred tons, a confiderable part of which 

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