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offered to pay the whole freight, if they would go back; but finding his generofity did not avail, he threatened to throw the patron overboard; the doctor interfered, and endeavoured to moderate the paffions of the hero, but feemed inclinable to return; the Maxo had been fo fick, that it was immaterial' to him whether he lived or died; the military flept in the bottom of the boat; the man at the helm often appealed to me, afluring me, there was no danger, as he knew the channel, and had often paffed it; and he was determined, at all events, to puríue his voyage: juft as we came abreast the rock, which had a moft unpleafant alpect, from the waves dafhing against it, the wind ceafed, and laid us at the mercy of the fwell, which rolled in directly upon it: the whole company was in a confternation! The women cried and prayed alternately; the prieft fhut his eyes, but ftill kept his lips going; the boatmen threflied the fides of the bark with ropes, calling upon St. Anthony to fend them wind; who not heeding their requests, the reverend father propofed that every body in the boat fhould go to prayers: I immediately complied with the humour of the times, left they fhould have taken me for a heretick, and thrown me overb ard; but our petitions did not avail, we were toffed and tumbled about to the horror of us all; at length, an arch boy, taking advantage of our distress, came round with his greafy cap, and collected money for las animas; that is, for the fouls in pur gatory; every one beftowed liberally, except the cadet and priest; the former, pretending ftill to be in a paffion, difmiffed the fupplicant with a box on the ear; and the latter, keeping his eyes fhut, alfo clofed his ears to the vociferous boy, who repeatedly dinned them though to little purpote, with las animas, Senor Padre! Immediately after the collection, we got a little breeze, that carried us paft our danger, which was fuppofed to have been granted in confequence of our offerings and fupplications. We once more went to prayers, returning thanks for our delivery; when the whole company affumed a different countenance: the priest, who was the moft alarmed, was feverely rallied; but he bore the fneers that were thrown out against him with all imaginable fang froid, recruiting his fpirits, at the fame time, with fome wine and cold ham, and then went quietly to fleep: thus, without any more dangers or tears, we purfued our voyage, till ten o'clock at night, when we arrived at Ferrol.”

In his return to Gibraltar, through Portugal, Mr. Dalrynple ftaid fome time at Lisbon; of whofe Court he speaks concifely, as follows.

"Here the court is little elegant; the king and royal family live in a barrack, where there is not much tatte or magnificence; and as few of the first rank are wealthy, there cannot be any private buildings of great confideration. I was told, that the duke de Cadaval has an estate of about 80,000 crufades a year, equal to about 9000l. fterling; and one or two more of the nobility have from fifty or fixty thousand cruJades; when the rest dwindle into inconfiderable fortunes. The Marquis of Pombal, the minifter, has accumulated much wealth from a very finall beginning; but, except by himself, it is not known to what it amounts."

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A whimsical notion of the Spaniards and Portugueze is thus noticed in regard to the effect of moon-light; which is nevertheless true, probably, with refpect to the night air, notwith ftanding the dews are not, in many parts of thofe countries, fo hurtful as in fome others.

"I must take notice to you of a prejudice both in this country and Spain, which is fomewhat fingular: having had the finest moon-light evenings imaginable, I have conftantly noticed the women hold their fans, in fuch a manner, as to prevent the moon from shining upon their faces, as they conceive it will fpoil their complexions. At Madrid the fame prejudice not only prevailed amongst the women, but extended even to the men: I was walking one evening with the great O'Reilly in his garden; having my hat under my arm, he defired I might be covered, as the moon in that climate, he faid, was more dangerous than the fun. Such feminine ideas, I think, are only worthy of the fex; I did not imagine they could influence a great monarch's favourite."

On the Portugueze ftage, a popular fubje&t in every country, Mr. Dalrymple makes, of courfe, his remarks.

"The Portuguefe ftage has made but little progrefs towards refinement. I was informed that plays in the language had not been allowed till about feventeen years ago; the tranflation of an English comedy being one of the firft. I was at the representation of the tragedy of Beverly, a tranflation from the Gamefter: the performers had no great tragic powers; were cool and languid. In a little farce, the manners of the inhabitants of Brazil were ridiculed with fome humour; they reprefented them as a very formal and pedantic people, and brought them in with a fuite of negroes, monkeys, parrots, &c. there was a kind of low wit introduced in it, which feemed to give greater fatisfaction to the audience, than any other part: an old woman frequently breaking wind in her mafter's face, produced infinite applaufe, even from the boxes. The fofa, a dance peculiar to this country, as the fandango is to Spain, was exhibited in the farce, between a black man and woman; it was the most indecent thing I ever beheid, and only calculated for the ftews, yet no one feemed difpleafed; on the contrary, the women beheld it with calmness, and the men applauded the performance. The national mufic refembles the Spanish, but is by no means fo much improved. There is a kind of Brazil mufic that I heard a young Brazilian play upon the guitar, ac ́companying it with his voice, which, though folemn, is foothing and agreeable. There is generally an Italian opera here; and the king has a company of Italians, who perform at the palace: I was told that his theatre was well conducted, but there was no reprefentation during my refidence."

Of the ftate of the flage at Cadiz, we are told,

"There is a molt elegant little French theatre here, fupported at a very confiderable expence by the French; there is alfo an Italian Opera, at prefent badly mounted; and a Spanish comedy; in the former there are performances four or five times a week; at the latter every day. At the Spanish comedy I faw a curious play of Lazarus

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and Dives, wherein the whole flory was carried on in the performance; and, concluding with the reprefentation of Heaven and Hell, it ended with the expreffion "If they hear not Mofes and the Prophets, "&c." Though not prone to change, a conftant connection with the Italian and French performers, have caufed a degree of refinement to take place upon this stage, though the alteration has not been much relished by the maqueteros, as they are called, the critics of the pit. I faw the tranflation of a French play reprefented here with fome degree of performance."

We fhall now take our leave of thefe Travels, with the writer's general obfervations on the Spinifh Character.

"The Caftillian, Andalufian, and Gallician, are strongly marked, each as a feparate people; but fince the lame government, one religion, and the like education prevail, a fimilarity of character is confpicuous; the gravity of the natives is carried to a proverb, and their deportment would convince a stranger that it were true: they have no idea of walking for exercife, or ever stirring abroad in the heat of the day, but when obliged to it, and then they move with a folemn gait, which becomes habitual; tiil lately, and that only now at the capital, and amongst people of rank in the provinces, they had little communication with itrangers, or with each other, confequently a referved behaviour took place whenever they met in company; and their turn for gallantry, obliged them to keep a guard upon their countenances, left they should betray their intrigues to their affociates: as this has been long the feat of bigotry, the gloom of religion hangs upon their brow; and the inquifition, employing its familiars in every corner of the realm, urged them to have a curb upon their tongue, for fear they should utter what might be interpreted to their ruin: all thefe caufes combined, naturally produce thole effects of external fedatenefs we fee prevalent amongit them; but, children of the fun, though not volatile, they have as acute and lively imaginations as any people of Europe: fanguine in their difpofitions, and warm in their affections, if thwarted in their purfuits, they often become enraged to a degree of paffion, with which we are in general unacquainted : they are revengeful, and ftabbing ftill prevails; the lowest peafant will not brook a blow; and that the honour of the foldiers may not be hurt, there is an article in the ordinances for the army, that they are to be beaten only with the fword. They have the higheft notions of the dignity of their birth: the Caftillian, but more the Bifcayan, though poor and beggarly, holds the Andalulian in the utmost contempt, as being in immediate defcent from the Moors; the latter is crafty and dening, but a nobler fpirit runs through the veins of the former. Mariiages are generally made between perfons of equal diftinction: the old nobility feldom contract themselves with the new; and the fuperior rarely connects himfelt with his inferior. They are temperate, or rather abftentious in their living to a great degree, borracho is the higheit term of reproach; and it is rare to fee a drunken man, except it be among the carriers or muleteers: both men and women are fertile in refources "to the attainment of their favourite purfuits; the latter, in particular, limited in their education, conlined

with bars at home, and attended by fpies abroad, ftill find means to elude the vigilance of their duenas, and pervade the grates made to restrain them. It is particular, that the people throughout, are free from diffidence; they have a manly character, and fpeak to their prince with the fame fang froid and confidence that they would to their fellow; they never utter any thing at which they seem to be the leaft abafhad; each man appears to have a confcious dignity, which is not fo confpicuous in other parts of the world: they treat one another with the greatest civility and refpect; if even a beggar afk alms, and it be not granted, the fupplicant is refused in most compaffionate terms; another time, they tell him, and God go with him, › God conduct him, &c. Infult is never added to misfortune. Such are my curfory remarks upon the prefent prevalent character of this people. There was a time, when the ardent flame of liberty fired each Spaniard's breaft; but it has been extinguifhed by the malignant blafts of defpotifin, never to be kindled more."

To this prophecy, as friends to liberty, we fhall only add the ejaculation of a certain good chriftian Bishop; who, upon his death-bed, on his phyfician's telling him he would, in a few hours, be in heaven; cried" God forbid !"

R.

Yorick's Skull; or College Ofcitations. With fome Remarks on the Writings of Sterne, and a Specimen of the Shandean Style. By the Author of a Monftrous Good Lounge*. Small 8vo. 2s. Bew.

Motto. "More fhe had fpoke, but yawn'd."

POPE'S DUNCIAD.

As yawning, however, is catching, the goddefs has faid enough, in all confcience, to fet all her votaries gaping. And yet, unless the nerves are in unifon, they will not be to liable to be affected; fo that our Lounger's ofcitations may have little or no effect, except on his brother loiterers.-Yorick's Skull! Fronti nulla fides! While we admire this quaint frontifpiece, we cannot help reflecting on the fabulift's fox, in the fhop of the ftatuary. O lepidum caput! faid he, looking at a handsome buft, "what a pity fo pretty a head should want brains!"-We may fay the faine of this Yorick's Skull.Alas! poor Yorick! this is thy very fkull indeed! for thou haft been fome time dead; thy brains have been food for worms, and inere maggots have taken up their place.

* See Review for June, page 475.

R.

Poems.

Poems. A New Edition, with Additions. By Thomas Warton. 8vo. 3s. Becket.

Of the old edition of thefe Poems we recollect nothing, except the printing of two or three of them among the Oxford Verfes, on the decease of the late, and acceffion of the prefent, King: at leaft, of twenty-five pieces, which this mifcellany contains, it appears that eighteen were never printed before *.On Mr. Warton's poetical abilities it were fuperfluous to make any general encomium; as they are too well known to need the commendation, and too juftly acknowledged to want the fuffrage, of a Monthly Reviewer.-It would be inconfiftent with our office, nevertheless, to difinifs his poems, without exacting at least one Ode, as our ufual tax on eminence.

THE

SUICIDE.

"BENEATH the beech, whofe branches bare
Smit with the lightning's livid glare,
O'erhang the craggy road,

And whistle hollow as they wave;
Within a folitary grave,

A wretched Suicide holds his accurs'd abode,

Lour'd the grim morn, in murky dies
Damp mifts involv'd the fcowling fkies,
And dimm'd the struggling day;
As by the brook that lingering laves
Yon rufh-grown moor with fable waves,
Full of the dark refolve he took his fullen way,

I mark'd his defultory pace,

His geftures ftrange, and varying face,
With many a mutter'd found;
And ah! too late aghaft I view'd

The reeking blade, the hand embru'd:

He fell, and groaning grafp'd in agony the ground.

*The titles of which are as follow, the pieces marked with an afferisk being original, MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.-Elegy on the Death of the late Frederick Prince of Wales- Infcription in a Hermitage at AnfleyHall in Warwickshire-* Monody written near Stratford upon Avon-On the Death of King George the Second-On the Marriage of the King-On the Birth of the Prince of Wales.-ODES-I. To Sleep-* II. The Hamlet III. Written at Vale-Royal Abbey-IV. The First of April

V. To Mr. Upton, on his New Edition of the Faerie Queene-* VI. The Suicide-* VII. To a Friend, on leaving a favourite Village in Hamphire-VIII. The Complaint of Cherwell-IX. The Crufade-* X. The Grave of King Arthur.-SONNETS-I. Written at Wynilade in Hampfhire-II. On Bathing-III. Written in a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monafticon-IV. Written at Stonehenge- V. Written after feeing Wilton-Houfe- VI. To Mr. Gray-* VII.-* VIII. On King Arthur's Round Table at Winchester-* IX. To the River Lodon.

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