T RAV

ARANJUEZ AND LA MANCHA. 141the Spanish language; tbat sam~inducement wbich has led sornecourtly writers here to substitute the French u for their own sonorous 0,but wbose villanous saffron, it is to he hoped, will fail upon the doughof the country at large.'fhis nation is indehted/.to Count Florida Blanca for the best inten~tions buta fatalityimpends OVer aIl efforts to amelioration. Thisviatorial establishment cannot procure here the resources of stability.It must receive a prop, or its fate is evident. ' The excellent philosopIlicalcharacter and well~intentionedstatesman before mentioned, fellinto thefault so,common to mankind, nameIy, the confoundingeffectsand causes, and prescribing them to the symptom instead of the diS'­ease.:Hesawthat the inns of Spain were of a description far indeedbelow what the termindiiferent can he applied to, and has caused goo.dones to be built; forgetting that two essentiaIs, whichhe could notcommand, were requisite to the general institution-:;.capital to Set itgoing, and intercourse to keep it so: or proceeding in the matter as ifit were the inns which made the travellers, and not thetravellers themns.Indeed one of the grievances of Spain, and though a derivativeone notthe 1ess serious, is thedeficiency of internaI intercourse; andwheu the combinations and time requisite fOl,the establishment of sucha thing are.computed, the evil appears nearly remediless, except in theeventof somegreatchange~ Count Florida Blanca was fond of dis...cussing statistical matters, as applicable to Spain, with foreigners~But the observations of foreigners are shallow, as those of natives areprejudiced. Between bo.th, anexcellent judgement is luuch moreliableto be nlisled than to attain toitsobject-rightinformation.Proceeding onwards fromAranj,uez, tb.rough La Mancha, the posadasof this tractseem to have fallen off c\ren from the days of ils illustrions,