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comment on their proceedings, was immured 

 in some dungeon of the execrable Inquisi- 

 tion, there to linger out his existence in a 

 total absence from light and air, if it were 

 not shortened by the Auto da F6, one of 

 the mild and gentle engines by which the 

 mother church of Rome corrected her er- 

 ring children ; and by their example de- 

 terred others from political and religious 

 sinning. 



A stranger wishing to attend mass at the 

 most fashionable hour, should repair to the 

 Calle Real a little before twelve, at which 

 time the church bell of the monastery of 

 St. Domingo rings; by taking a station in a 

 balcony opposite to the door of this church, 

 you have a full view of the gay world; — 

 here you perceive the young military officers 

 ranged in lines, through which the ladies 

 have to pass, and undergo the scrutiny of 

 their eyes : an infliction, by the way, to 



