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TRAVELS IN EUROPE.feriors, and treat them with a degree of familiarity and bonhommie,which, however, in no case attracts upon itself the slightest advancebeyond the bounds of decorum. On either side the claimsand dues,from man to man, seem perfectly understood, and are adhered to with..out constraint.There was a considerable degree of military parade about this regi..ment (of Pavia); a formidable band of kettle-drums, trumpets, andother martial instruments of sound; a large body of officers carryingthei1' profession much with them, well..bred men, and possesseli, Iiketheir' countrymen in general, of adue portion of that sixth faculty sonecessary in this worId, but so hard to define, which goes by the nameof tact~.Nature formed the Spaniard for a military life. l?olard was an oraclein his day on these matters; but his dicta are likely henceforward to héconsigned ad ficum et piper1 whither much more important maUEetihasgone before them. He is only noticeablehere hy his extravagant andparadoxicai eulogies on the Spanish cavall'y,wihich could notever havebeen formidable against that of the North. This is not the language ofdisparagement; oit is merely thecounterpoise to the extravagantasser..ltion of the abovementioned author, that the Spanish cavaltyneverknew its o'Wn strength; meaning, to he sure, that it never encouflteredits equal.1'hat this cavaIry would constitute a very fine branch of anarmy, in its way, it would be a mark of ignorance to deny. 1'hey usethe point of the sword soleJy. How far this is eligible will not beherediscussed; but the adoption of the plan indicates thought.But the$ Butler may help us out in the way of definition here, where he talks of" metaphysic virtuosis,Who hear with 'eyes, ~d s~e whh noses;~