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TRAVELS IN EUROPE.And indeed what have family feelings to do in poli tics ? One cannotquit this fine country, this great and dignified nation, whose peopleclass morally so high in the scale of mankind, without lamenting theaccumulation of evils which griod it in the dust. A step-mother connexion.. an alien head, colonial drains, a system founded 00 law. ope..ratiog to the deterioration of itsphysical, as one foulldedon religiO:lldoes to that of its moral ..eftorts, its statistics andau:;onmniqs inregulardeclension, and very well-intentioned effort at amelioration only rev~rt­~ng in disappointment 00 its projcctor!s h€adtQget~fff,itmustb~ repeatcd, constitutc a,picture asmelafiécholy as the statc which itpourtrays is undeserved..l\.f$ tô naval force, the misfortunes of SpainFrom the ear1iest periods of record prove, that he.rexistencea,nd safetydepend on it, or uponstrong naval alliances.Had she possesse;d,tbisnlean ofdefence, her primitive Getulian, population would notllavesll,f..fered Carthaginian despotism ta drain and render her an easy preytqthe Romans, the declension of whose P9werJhre~v berit)tothe Goths and Vandals; feeble invaders,opposed ta thern, nad the heroes .of SagtU1tllple~i&tedin.desc~lldants,it would surely have been easy to have pefended the··Peninsula againstthose invaders, who were themselves too feeble ta offer resistance. effee..tually whenattacked in their turn.by the ~Ioors.Strange fate to0 2thatthe country which possessed internaI riches to excite and pay the cu..pidity of the Carthaginians, whose mountains and rivers teem with thepreeious metaIs, should be thepoorest at home of former days !Butlook to presept times; we see her working hermines abroad* to supplyother natio. at thei1' OWll doors with the circulating medium, withoutwhiéh they cannot trade in the grand mart ofthe worId. Almost naked'*' Si;lÇ millions sterling is the annual consignment to the PeninsuJa.effect if employed in manuallàbour there ? ' .What would ohe of these