318 Journal of a recent Voyage to Cadiz. 
Day of Judgment, about six feet by five, 
and containing nearly a hundred figures, 
whose countenances and positions are all 
varied. On the right hand, in the fore- 
ground, is a most horrid looking figure, 
representing Satan dragging at his back 
a man in chains, while he is lifting a 
ehild by the hair of his head, which he 
has twisted around his arm; near him is 
a man kneeijing in a devout posture, 
offering up his supplications. On the 
Jeft, m the back-ground, is a female, 
whose face is sweetly expressive of re- 
Bignation; and in the perspective, are 
various groupes of figures, appearing to 
enjoy their happy situation after judg- 
ment: the Almighty is represented in 
the centre, sounding the trumpet, sur- 
rounded with glory, aud numerous che- 
rubs encircling him. 
Lhe second picture (the painter un- 
Known) is the Denial of St. Peter. He is 
addressing himself to Pilate’s female ser- 
vant, with an air of extreme surprise ; 
and her expressive attention to him, 
as well as that of a Roman centinel by 
her side, is admirably drawn: this pic- 
ture contains eight figures, as large as 
lite. 
A third picture represents Christ : 
it is small, badly designed, and worse 
executed. 
We walked through a Jong range of 
galleries, and went into the church by a 
door immediately leading to the altar. 
The Abbé instantly knelt dowa to 
the Virgin; I did not, of course: at 
this, a servant belonging to the convent, 
who accompanied us, louked at me with 
a sort of wild astonishment, on observing 
my omission of this act of reverence; his 
countenance was so severe, that I desired 
the Abbé to explain my heretical princi- 
ples, and that my religious ceremonies 
did not require the performance of a 
genuflexion on the same oecasions as 
their’s, and that it was not disrespect but 
persuasion, that caused me to be unob- 
servant of that practice. He smiled, and 
bowed pohtely ; and as nothing was to be 
$ en in the church requiring a particular 
notice, we retired, and were shewn into 
@ room, where, as a curiosity, were 
pointed out to me two black-and-white 
veined marble slabs, each about ten feet 
in length, and four and halfin breadth, 
witch are used for tables. I glimpsed at 
an elegantly decorated private chapel, 
but we could not enter it. 
The friars wear white robes or eloaks, 
reaching to the feet; a small black jacket, 
or caseuck; white hats, about two Eng- 
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lish feet in diameter, the sides bent up= 
ward. 
Now I am on the subject of friars and 
convents, I may as well tell you that in 
Spain are such a variety of orders, as 
would be tedious:and uninteresting to 
enumerate. Indeed, the Abbé tells me, 
that it would be difficult for me to pro~ 
cure a list of them, with any tolerable 
description of their variation, they being 
So numerous, and differing only in trifles. 
Our religious sects in England may be 
compared with them in this respect; 
when we hear of the baptists, and pedo- 
baptists; the sublapsarians, and supra- 
lapsarians; &c. &e. 
The Capuchins are in general the 
most respected, and take the lead of the 
other orders in affairs where the clergy 
are interested: their dress is a coarse 
brown cloak, and a jacket of the same; 
they do not shave. Ata short distance 
from the principal entrance to their con- 
vent, is a beautiful alabaster alto-relievo 
of the Crucifixion of Christ and the two ° 
Thieves. The Spaniards are proud of 
the possession of it; and they feared, 
while Nelson lay off the place, occasi- 
onally throwing a shell into the city, that 
some unlucky one would destroy this 
object of piety: but it has escaped in- 
jury, though some smaller figures which 
decorate the railing near it, have been 
either injured by time, or defaced by 
mischief, At intervals, on the path 
leading to the eonvent, for the distance 
of four hundred feet, are several large 
plain crosses, in a line from each other, 
erected to denote the approach to holy 
ground. 
The Franciscans is another numerous 
order: their dress is acoarse woollen, of 
blue, black, and white mixture. Their 
convent, and the church, is very large; 
the latter elegant in gilded ornaments, 
with many small altars and dirty pictures. 
There are also Dominicans, Augustines, 
Descalzos (or these who wear neither 
shoes or stockings, but sandals), &c. &c. 
The clergy, or priests, are distinet from 
any of these orders; they have a respect- 
able appearance, and dress in black 
generally, though they are not confined 
to it: their hats are large, like those of 
the Capuchins, &c. A few secular 
clergy inhabit a convent appropriated to 
them; they are chiefly employed on mis- 
sions to foreign countries; but their 
number is now reduced to six or eight. 
Here are three convents for females: 
the nuns are not numerous, but the spi- 
rit of retirement from the world in these 
seciuded 
