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'l'RAVELS IN EUROPE.}f.ore, and perhaps \Vorse, wascoming; but the address and h01ûlOmm~eofa cheerful and benevoient Biscayan, captain of a regiment in the garrison,who, with the characteristic good humouf.of his countrymen, had,by various efforts to turn or stop the conversation, endeavoured to preventthings coming to extremities, now at length succeeded in silencingone party and pacifying the other: no easy task.But his argumentfor interference was the striking part-" We foreign.ersshould be cau...ûous."A native of Biscay, a captain in the Spanish se).'vice, speakingof himself as a foreigner ,in Spaint Where, then, js the na.tion? or towhat can the nation amount? .Silence however 110W reigned, imposedby rnan(i"arnus,atld the privation of conversation \Vas more than compensatedby the 10ss of the discussion.tcmpers suit," &c."Hfis strange how sorne men'sThe fondness of the Spanish women for the delicate article of manu...facture before mentloned is very great, but by no means adequate tocalI for its introduction, as an article ofmanufacture for the nation..Itis the principIe of industry, and not its modes; t11at the Sipanish, com...munity wants.'Vhena stranger l'eaches Seville, he perceives that he has gotten intoSpain. The ;feal Spanish beau is tÜ' he met with h~re: ma,ro is the nationalphrase for the character.There seems more of the sentiment ofthe dignity of human nature than even of self-complacency in the corn'"position of it.He adds little prop to his national Mel'ino system. Silks,satins, and lace, constitut~ his wardrobe. In a large-bl'immed roundllat, his hair in a redecilla, a searlet coat tbl'own ()ver a wa,istcoat ofsilvertissue, putfed out with ribbons at the .-shoulders, and a basket-h.amlledToledo blacle under his arm, at midnight, llnd at the billiard·table,heappears in his glory; a frivololls one, perhaps, but marked by nationalcharaeteristics. The Spaniards are very fond of~ andgreatadcpts at this