it is brought to us in a kettle froma 
nesehbeuring coffee. house. 
T shall change my resdence so soon as 
T can meet with a more comfortable one; 
bat furnished lodgings, such as are. in 
England. cannot be procured easily: the ~ 
Spaniards are not partial to this kind of 
acconimodation, aud every article. of 
furniture must be purchased, or hired 
separately from the apartments. 
December 1, 1809. 
Hlaving been here a few. days, I have 
at length found outa French hotel, where 
the table is chiefly surrounded by Eng- 
lishmen. The expences’ of board and 
lodging are two dollars a day, for which 
“we have a breakfast of tea, coliee, and 
chocolate, a dinner, and supper. The 
hour of dinner is generally two o’clock, 
among persons of ail ranks; but the 
Spaniards begin to complain of an en- 
croachment in this regulation, in con- 
sequence of so many English being here, 
who rather extend, or wish to extend, the 
time. : 
The heat of the climate is the reason 
for adopting this custom; in the summer 
season, the scorching sun does not allow 
people to take much exercise in the 
afternoon: they commonly recline on the 
sofa, and enjoy the siesta or nap, and 
do not walk out unul the evening breeze 
" springs up. 
Our dinner usually consists of a great 
number of dishes, the Spaniards liking 
to please the palate with every variety of 
cookery. Soup is always at table, made 
either of pulse or animal food, which is 
boiled so long as not to retain any flavor 
of the meat; this is eaten with vegetables, 
such a3 cauliflower, cabbages, &c. which 
is plentifully seasoned with rancid oil, 
garlick, &c. and is called an olio; a dish — 
‘much esteemed. Poultry, wild fowl, fish, 
and game, form the remainder of the cour- 
ses; fruit, of various sorts, succeed before 
the cloth is removed. Water or sherry- 
wine is taken with the dinner, and with 
moderation afterwards ; coffee is then pre- 
pared in an adjoining room; sometimes 
a glass of liqueur finishes the ceremony, 
‘and is a signal for withdrawing. At 
“‘dinner, each person is furnished with a 
napkin, and a roll of bread; one knife 
will often serve for several persons, the 
fork and the spoon being mostly used by 
the right hand, while the teft holds a crust 
of bread, which is continually soaked in 
the gravy; a Spaniard not eating in a 
-vrery delicate manner at table. ~ 
-"*“Phe evening is generally spent at the 
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Journal of a recent Voyage to Cadiz. 
{Aug. A. : 
theatre, or at the card-table; the actos 
and music are tolerably good, the house 
is spacious, and has three tier of boxes, - 
but they are all private; so that unless a 
friend is known who rents one of them, 
there is no getting a seat. The pit is 
then only open, or a hench which is in 
front of the first tier of boxes, and con= 
tains about a hundred persons. 
To enter the theatre the expence is 
trifling, but troublesome; haying to pay 
at two doors for, tickets of admission, 
where you are pestered by persons 
stationed to solicit money: for charities ; 
these tickets, being delivered at the en- 
trance, another must be procured in order 
to get asitting; this will cost one or two 
shillings ; it has the number of the seat you 
can cccupy and no other ; the pit will con- 
_tain only acertain number of persons, so 
that without having such ticket you have 
no claim toaseat. The pitis appropriaied 
exclusively for men; some ot them rent 
their places fora certain time, to which 
they have a lock and key; the gallery 
over the boxes, is filled entirely by fe- 
males, and guards are stationed in the 
passages leading to it to prevent improper 
access to them. 
A judicrous circumstance occurred the 
night I was there; 1n the midst of the per- 
formance ofa comedy, | was surprised to 
observe on a sudden a profound silence, 
while the actors and the audience fell on 
their knees, remaining in this posture a 
few minutes! I was naturally desirous 
to know the cause, and was informed 
that the “ host” was carrying to the house 
of a dying person, in, order to administer 
the sacrament. 
‘The procession on these occasions is 
formed of a great number of clergy, 
preceded by a warning bell, and a blaze 
of torches at night; the.‘ holy wafer” 
being borne by a priest, who sits ina 
chair. On their approach every one 
within sight or hearing falls on his knees, 
whether in the street or in a house, and 
remains, or is supposed to remain, im 
prayer while the procession passes. The 
weather or the place .does not excuse 
the omission of this duty; the porters, 
with a load on their backs will stand still, 
and a regiment of soldiers will fall on 
their knees on the parade, on these occa~ 
sions. In fact no ‘one is exempt from 
this obeisance, and heretics commit an 
open offence if they do Dot passively con. 
formLOsits cies yet ; 
But among the public acts of Catholic 
devotian, none is certainly so apparently 
Pot ci ty t - — religious 
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