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Spain; nor would cabronazos* have had 
any other exiftence than in words. . Qoix- 
otte is an innocent and amufing work to 
an Englith reader, but has proved fatal 
tothe Spaniards. Happy would it be for 
Spain, had the ftill knighrs-errant in lieu 
of cabronazos; her chief towns would 
not then be defolated by peftilence and fa- 
mine, nor her degenerate fons funk in de. 
bility and premature old age. Notwith- 
Randing, among thofe of education, there 
is {till modefty in the men, aad chattity 
in the women. 
Of this Prince we fhall only add, that 
he is ftilla tender and attentive hufband 
to his firt wife, for whofe relations, as 
well as his own, he has made the moft 
ample provifion, To his fecond he is by 
no meansunkind. To the Queen he is 
dreadfully fevere ; determinedly thwarting 
all her fchemes, and depriving her of 
every veltige of regal authority. 
This unhappy woman, who, whether, 
as it is faid, fhe be fubject to an in- 
firmity of nature, or whether from 
an abandoned principle, the natural con- 
fequence of an Italian education, mu 
be clafled with a Meflalina, that has 
greatly injured Spain. Her private me- 
moirs have been publifhed, and faid to be: 
authentic by thofe who ought to know ;: 
but as it is a work, were it poffible, 
mere fcandalous than that of Cleland, 
oblivion is its only defert. To ac- 
count for the contempt and ill-ufage of 
the Prince to her, it has been fuppofed 
that fhe had, in fome unguarded moment 
of pleafure, propofed to him the death of 
the King, or fome {uch defperate expedient 
otherwife, it is thought, he never would 
have dared to treat her inthe man-er he 
does. The King, fimple man, knows 
nothing, nor minds nething. but fowling, 
to which he is extremely attached, and is 
an excellent markfman. The Queen is 
devoted to the fearching for gallants, and: 
the Prince conducts the government, and 
creates new nobles as he thinks fit. He: 
is not really an enemy to learning, as he 
has been accufed, but his {chemes to pro- 
te¢t it have been badly conceived, and 
proved equally fatal to the progrets of 
knowledge. An inftance appears in the 
abfurd privilege given to the late Don Jo- 
feph Cavanilles, whofe pupils only were 
permitted to fill the profeflors’ chairs in 
the different univerfities and public {chools ; 
all others, even thofe of prior informa- 
* Ido not believe that either our language 
er morals would be benefitted by a tranflation 
of this word: yet as curiofity may be more 
dangerous than truth, it means ‘* men who 
fell their wives’ favours.” 
tion, not difciples of Cavanilles, wére 
prohibited being profeffors of botany, Ca- 
vanilles refided a long time in Paris, where 
he acquired more cunning and intrigue than 
philofophy ; and bis great Jabours confifted, 
in reducing (improperly) the claffes of 
Linneus to fifteen. Such have been the, 
left-handed efforts of the Prince to protect 
learning, and encourage the arts and {ci- 
ences. Of his manners, they aie ftrongly 
marked with provincialifm ; at firft vio~ 
lent and impetuous ;. then cool, repentant, 
and meditative, and, in fine, paflive, yicld= 
ing, and friendly. He is a very able- 
bodied man, at prefent very coipulent: 
of a igure more agreeable from its ftrength 
than beauty ; of the deportment of aman 
of bufinefs rather than that of a courtier 
or philofopher ; and of a mien more ftrong 
than noble. He is not deftitute of talents, 
yet he rarely fhews that depth of perfpi- 
cacity or fhrewdre‘s, which uneducated, 
men, of ftrong minds, generally evince. 
His levees dre regularly and numeroully: 
attended by the firft nobility of Spain 5 
and he ie not wahting in aitention to the 
fair part of his vifitants. He is, how- 
ever, hated and fesred by the ancient 
grandees, whofe privileges and influence 
he has greatly curtailed. In fhort, his 
ignorance, his pride, and his debauche- 
ries, have ruined and difgraced his coun- 
try, and cannot be held in too great de- 
tefiation. His annual income has been 
eftimated at upwards of 250,000. fterlingy 
butis probably much more. 
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DR.. JOHN MOORE, ARCHBISHOP 
_OF CANTERBURY. — 
T has been remarked, that many of the: 
. ableft and moft virtuous prelates that 
have adorned the Church of England were’ 
the offspring of perfons in very humble 
fituations in life, and that the catalogue of 
its primates, in particular, confifts almoft’ 
entirely of men of very low extraétion. 
Cranmer, Parker, Grindall, and Whit. 
gift, the great pillars of the Church-eftab- 
lifament after it had freed itfelf from the 
Papal yoke, were all of bumble defcent. 
Archbifhop Abbot was educated and main- 
tained by public charity. Laud’s father 
was a weaver; Tillotfon’s followed the 
fame occupation, and neither of them was 
in circumftances to provide for his fon, 
Potter was a fervitor in his college, and 
both Herring and Secker were more in- 
debted to good fortune than to family con- 
nections for their elevation. 
To the above celebrated names may be 
added that of the Right Rev. Dr. John 
Moore. He wasanative of Glouceiter, 
inwhich city his father exercifed the pro-- 
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