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PLATE III.-THE POLLING.

stifle it by putting his hand before his mouth. At the same time two counsellors are violently disputing the legality of the vote.

There is a vast deal of characteristic expression seen in the faces of the two candidates-one sits leaning on his cane with all the cool independence of certain success, while the other is perusing the state of the poll with every mark of vexation and disappointment, conscious he shall lose both the honour of being a representative and his money.

We have here a continuation of Hogarth's admirable Humours of an Election. The scene before us is a motley groupe of lame, blind, and sick-not urged on by patriotism to vote for that candidate who may best serve his King and Country, but at the instigation of party, bribery, and corruption. Nothing can shew the truth of the observation more than the miserable expression of the deaf idiot on the husting, whose feeble memory is such as to require the continual assist ance and whispers of a busy fellow in fetters, whom Hogarth no doubt means to represent as Dr. Shebbeare, having a pa-pendage to all contested elections, through per in his pocket, on which is written "A Sixth Letter to the People of Eng land," and for which he received the double reward of a pillory and a pension.

The old female ballad-singer (an ap

which the rhyming wit of party scribblers is conveyed to the mob), is bellowing the downfall of Sir Launcelot Loseall, not in the most delicate style, as a gibbet is ob served to be the frontispiece of the song.

The carriage breaking down is intended for Britannia, with two servants playing at cards on the box, shewing the heedlessness of her servants to the welfare of her mistress, who is in danger of being overwhelmed in ruin for want of proper care and attention. In the distance is seen a cavalcade of freeholders, with colours fly

On the steps we see others approaching, among whom is one whose countenance is depicted with all the symptoms of expiring nature, and seems rather doubtful if the ghost will not be given up before he reaches the poll-book. On the left is a maimed old veteran laying his wooden stump, with all the fervour of a Briton to support the good old cause, upon the book, while the singularity of his appearing, drums beating, &c. &c. advancing to ance causes an immoderate fit of laughter the hustings. from one of the clerks, who endeavours to

PLATE IV.-CHAIRING THE MEMBER.

THE polling being concluded, the tive instrument coming in contact with books cast up, and the returning officer the skull of a bearer of our new-made having declared our candidate duly elected; member, the fellow's head rings with the he is now exhibited in triumph. Seated blow, his eyes swim, his limbs refuse to in an arm-chair, and exalted upon the do their office, and at this inauspicious shoulders of four tried supporters of the momen', the effects of the stroke, like an constitution, he is borne through the prin- electric shock, are extended to the exalted cipal streets, which are promiscuously senator. He trembles in every joint, the crowded with enemies as well as friends. hat flies from his head; and, without the In this aerostatic voyage, there seems to be intervention of Juno or Minerva, he must some danger of a wreck, for a thresher fall from the seat of honour to the bed of baving received an insult from a sailor, in stone. Terrified at his im. ending danger, the act of revenging it, flourishes his flail a nervous lady, who with her at endants is in as an extensive an orbit as if he were in the church-yard, falls back in a swoon. in his own barn. The end of this destruc- "Regardless of her distress, two little chim

ney sweepers, upon the gate-post are the defeated party glorying in their se placing a pair of gingerbread spectacles on curity, and highly delighted with the a death's head. Their sportive tricks are confusion below. One of these, distinlikely to be interrupted by a monkey be- guished by a ribband, is said to be inneath, who, arrayed en militaire, is mount-tended for the late Duke of Newcastle, ed upon a bear's back. The firelock slung who was eminently active on these ocover this little animal's shoulder, in a fray || casions. A poor old lady is unfortu between the bear and a biped, is accident-nately thrown by a litter of pigs, which, ally discharged, in a direction that, if load-followed by their mamma, rush through ed, must carry leaden death to one of the the crowd with as much impetuosity as gibing soot-merchants above. if the whole herd were possessed. One of this agreeable party has leaped, not into the ocean, but the brook, and the whole family are on the point of following his example.

The venerable musician, delighted with his own harmony neither takes a part, nor feels an interest in the business of the day; let not his neutrality be attributed to a wrong cause, nor be it supposed that in a country where every good citizen must espouse some party, this ancient personage would remain an indifferent spectator, were he not totally blind. At an opposite corner, a naked soldier is taking a few refreshing grains of best Virginia, and preparing to dress himself after the performance of a pugilistic duet. On the other side of the rails, a half-straved French cook, a halfbred English cook, and a half-roasted woman cook, are carrying three covers for the Lawyers' table. Near them is a cooper inspecting a vessel that had been reported leaky, and must speedily be filled with home-brewed ale for the gratification of the populace. Two fellows are forcing their way through the crowd in the background with a barrel of the same liquor. Coming out of a street behind them, a procession of triumphant electors hail the other successful candidate, whose shadow appears on the wall of the court-house. In Mr. Attorney's first floor are a group of

Hogarth had surely some antipathy to tailors; in the back-ground he has introduced one of these knights of the needle disciplined by his wife, for having quitted the shop-board to look at the gentlemen. In Le Brun's battle of the Granicus, an eagle is represented as hovering over the plumed helmet of Alexander; this thought is very happily parodied in a goose, flying immediately over the tye-wig of our exalted candidate

An inscription on the sun-dial, when joined to the mortuary representation on the church-yard post, has been supposed to imply a pun hardly worthy of Hogarth.

All the incidents in this very whimsical plate, are naturally, and yet skilfully combined; the whole is in the highest degree laughable, and every figure stamped with its proper character. The apprehensive terror of the unwieldy member, the Herculean strength of the exasperated thresher, and the energetic attitude of the maimed sailor, deserve peculiar praise.

TO VOL. IV. NEW SERIES, OF

Bell's

COURT AND FASHIONABLE

MAGAZINE;

CONTAINING A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED WORKS OF LITERATURE FOR THE YEAR, 1811.

HISTORY, TRAVELS, BIOGRAPHY, &c.

SIR JOHN CARR'S TRAVELS IN SPAIN, &c.

ARTICLE I.-Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles, in the Year 1809. By Sir John Carr, K. C. 4to. pp. 394. 21. 2s. Boards. Sherwood and Co.

1811.

cannot help entering into reflections not very favourable to the morals of the Spanish ladies. Time, without strengthening the virtue of the women, has conveniently enough reduced the

It is necessary, in order to travel abroad with any advantage either to ourselves or our country, that we should have studied much at home. Every man is not fit for a traveller, because no man is, by the neces-jealousy of the men so low, that any one acsity of things, a scholar, or a man of taste and observation. It is not sufficient to be landed from the deck of a merchantman in a foreign country to be qualified to write a history of what we see there, for the pur-zard of injury, by attempting to enter the winpose of improving or decorating our native" home. It is one thing to travel, and another thing to be able to write an account of our travels.

Sir John Carr belongs to that class of amusing emigrants who, if they do not travel to much purpose, never travel wholly in vain. He has a knack of observation, and a talent of communicating what he sees, or has been able to glean up, with vivacity and spirit. He is a sprightly companion, and troubles you with nothing profound; amuses and fills up an idle hour, and, upon the whole, may be said to repay the expence of buying his book.

quainted only with the present manners of Spain might suppose, though ridiculously enough, that those very bars had been constructed for the sole purpose of preventing overheated and romantic lovers from the ha

dow of their mistresses, when they can have access to them with perfect safety through the door whenever they please. Thanks to the accession of the House of Bourbon for this important change. The inseusibility of that man must be great indeed, who cannot find a queall his soul, amongst either the married or the rida, or one to whom he is permitted to devote unmarried; and destitute of every attraction

must that woman be who does not meet with slave, amongst the men. In carrying on an a cortija or lover, or rather her impassioned intrigue, the Spanish ladies are singularly dexterous Wrapped up in the masquerade of fable and parable, they carry on an amorous conversation with their admirers in public,

The following are the observations of Sir without the fear of detection. In the language John on the state of society at Cadiz

"When a stranger contemplates the massy bars by which the windows of all the houses here, not lately erecte i, are barricadoed, he No. XXVII.-Supplement.

of the fingers they are very expert; with one hand they are enabled to form an alphabet."

A late traveller speaks of the tertulia of the Countess Villamarique, at Seville, as a U u

conversation.

gaming-house, where most of the company meet for play, but among whom some intelligent persons might be found who enjoy Sir John, however, gives rather a different picture of the tertulias of Seville; "at which," he says, "obscene conversation with the women, and iced water, formed the principal mental and animal entertainments."

truly horrible. There had been lately an auto da fé, or solemn act of faith, exhibited here, in the excommunication of a layman for pretending to be a mouk."

From the descriptive parts of this work, we must not omit to extract the account of the beautiful valley of Valencia :

"As I was anxious to contemplate the fairy land that surrounds this city, in a circumference of between seventy and eighty miles, I took the earliest opportunity of ascending the tower of the cathedral, which has the reputa tion of covering the cite of a building, that is different eras underwent the extraordinary vicissitudes of having been once a Pagan temple, thrice a place of Christian worship, and twice

a Mahometan mosque.

"From this elevation, the city appears to be seated in an almost interminable garden of unfading verdure, protected on three sides by

a chain of distant mountains, and open to the ocean on the east. In one view I beheld not

In the chapters allotted to the delineation of the city of Cadiz, the account of the bull-fight at Puerta de Santa Maria, in its vicinity, is very minute; and the interest taken in this cruel diversion by the Spanish ladies is distinctly noticed. Since these exhibitions are even more a feature of the Spanish character than our boxing. matches are of the British, a tourist is justified in giving them a place in his book; but we expected a different reflection on the whole from that with which the account here concludes. After having informed us that the residue of the money collected from the spectators at these bullfights, when the expences are paid, is given to charitable uses, the Knight adds:"And thus is even cruelty made ministerial to humanity and civilization!" In this remark, a little dry irony is meant to be couched; but a more pointed condemna-bellished by the romantic appearance of the tion of this barbarous sport, and a direct exposure of that self-delusion which human beings practise on themselves by endeavouring to neutralize vice through an admixture of some easy virtue, would have been more satisfactory to our old-fashioned feelings.

According to Mr. Jacob, the terrors of the Inquisition have considerably abated in late years; but the Knight gives a different report:

"It is in vain to say that the times are eulightened, and that those who belong to the holy office are too liberal to exercise its powers but with lenity. The oppressions practised in this very Inquisition, in 1724, upon Isaac Martin, an Englishman, may be exercised again; and were, with some variance, as I have before mentioned, lately practised upon one of the best and wisest men in Spain, the patriotic Jovellanos.

"I was assured on good authority, that several unhappy persons were, when I was in Granada, confined in the dungeons of this very building, the silence and gloom of which were

less than two hundred hamlets, scattered amidst vineyards, woods of olive, white mul. berry, almond, carob, fig-trees, and silver poplars, oranges, and citron-groves, fields of vari ous hues, green with the young rice, red with tomatas, and yellow with melons, divided by stately aloes aud pomegranates, displaying the rich crimson of their bell blossoms, and em

Asiatic palm. The animating gaiety of beau tiful country-houses, and white cottages, half concealed in foliage, was relieved by the pensive appearance of cross-crowned convents, amid the gloom of their cypresses. Ianumersble channels of water ran shining through this paradise, the roads were covered with peasants, carts, and cattle in active motion, and the whole was illuminated by a brilliant sun, beaming through a sky of cloudless azure. Such a combination of beauty and prodigal luxuriance, nature and art had never before presented to me. It seemed enchantment ali: to describe it is impossible. Here, under a climate almost always beneficent, December wears the dress and attractions of May, and the seasons are known only by the variety of their delicious offerings of blossoms, fruits, and flowers, to banquet and ravish the senses."

The popularity of the English in Spain was evident in every place to which the traveller came. At a dinner in Valencia, a lady who presided, endeavoured to compliment her guests by giving a toast, as she thought, in the true English manner; but it is evident that she did not distinguish be

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