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THEIR MORAL~QU,ALITIESWHElol IN SPAIN. 311co*? rrhey;were tbere held ing()od estimation for their moral qualities bytbeir Christian neighbours; and this could hardly havebeen the case ifilley had not deserved it, earned it by their virtues.sufficient testimony to this "effett.Sancho Panza is aHe i8 not one from whom Iiberalid.eas applied to an opposite sectal'ian cQuld he expected of luxuriantgrQwth. Yet theyexisted. On their expatriation there, an~ redintegrationhere, they had no resource but thecities. 1'l)is too was, it mayalmost be said, tbeir natural life. They were more than gregarious" theyhad become almost artificiallylcivic.The manners of the Fezzians, asdescribed in the last century but one, are in aH probability characteristicof what prevailed ln the preceding one, and on the other side of theStraits. They probably so existed until an ungenial political state;wielded by that r~former of human nature, Muley Ishmael, demoralizedaIl bere. The narratoris Jezreel Jones. The private life of the Mooris nowhere so successfuHy detailed, and the bonlwmmie of these goodhumouredFezzians entitles them to a better lot than their descendantsbave drawn in life.They had too, in the wars of the Country, manage.ment and firmnessto capitulate with this royal and powerfully gifted fe-,;'rocious savage, who does not appear to have broken Faith with them.One" \Vord of credit at least is due to this man's character. In the ensuingdays of anarchy he wasregl'etted throughout his dominions; 80 truelS the proverb amongst the Turks, who have too good substantiation fprit at home. Besides, he was too competent to his business, to l'equirethe aid ofsubaltern tyranny. ' But for the Fezzians.-" A ~foor at sunrisewashes, dresses,. goes tomosque, and breakfasts on thick barley,or wheate'n gruel, with herbs and spices, among which origanllmpredorninates, (no wonder that rats colonize the plain of .Morocco,) together\Vith hot bread, of hasty-pudding, wlth butter" and honey (a'* For Monommedan respectability in point of personal character, ask their neighbours on theside of Hungary. They necd Dot shrink from any competition.

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