Spain: Her Institutions, Politics, and Public Men. a Sketch
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Price 75 cents. filCH OF THE ABOVE POKMS AND PROSE WRITINGS, MAY BE HAB IN VABIOtJS STVLES OF UANDSOMB BINDING. SPAIN: HER 1 1' I INSTITUTIONS, P O L C S , AND PUBLIC MEN, A SEETCH, B Y S. T. AV A L L I S, " AUTHOR OP GLLMPSE8 OP SPADJ." BOSTON: TICK NOR, REED, AND FIELDS JI DCCC LIII. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS, i n the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: M K T C A L F AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITV. MRKAHY UNIVERSFTY OF C.MJFORNIA SANTA BARBAIiA //3 TO THE HONORABLE JOHN GLENN, V. S. JUDGE FOR THE DISTKICT OF MAKTLAND, m I GUATEFrL ACKXCV.n.EDGJIKXT OF MAXY KIXUXKSSES PREFACE '' When writing the Glimpses of Spain," the author supposed it scarcely possible that he should ever return to that country. The work, however, was still in the press, when he was honored by an invitation, from the Secretary of the Interior of the United States, to visit Madrid upon an important professional eiTand. The offer was too flattering to be declined, and the present volume is one of the results of its ac- ceptance. Though the author did not occupy any recog- nized relation to the Spanish government, the nature of his duties, and the intercourse and connections resulting from his position, afforded him many and excellent opportunities of knowl- edge and observation. He docs not jirofc-s to VI PREFACE. have availed himself of his advantages as fully as he might, had his duties been less engross- ing; but he trusts it will be found, that they have enabled him to give the work which fol- lows a less ephemeral character than that of an ordinary book of travels. In the attempt to do this, he has sought to communicate, as far as practicable, such information in regard to Spain, as is not, to his knowledge, accessible elsewhere. Much of this volume was prepared, as the whole should have been, soon after the writer's return to the United States. Having had no control over the circumstances which delayed its completion, he has endeavored to countervail them by keeping pace with the intermediate progress of Spanish affairs, and is persuaded that he has thus been able to present, on the whole, a fair contemporary view of his subject. The reader will, of course, make allowance for the generalities of both statement and reflection which it was impossible to avoid in a sketch. The favorable reception of his former work gives the author some confidence, that the present volume will not meet with the less considera- tion, because he has again attempted to portray the national characteristics of the Spaniards, PREFACE. VII without underrating their intelh'gence, depreciat- ing their morals, or caricaturing their manner;^ and reliiiion. It would be unpardonable to send forth the record of a most agreeable sojourn in the Span- ish capital, without acknowledging the indebted- ness of the author to the oflicers of the United States Legation there, and especially to the Hon. Mr. Barringer, for all the pleasure and advantage which courtesy and kindness could give to personal and official intercourse. Baltisiore, January, 1853. i CO X TENTS. I. PAOK .TourneT to Madrid 1 II. — Ser- Lodging-IIouscs. Lodging, and Life in Madrid. vants. &c. ^ III. &c. of Ma- Foundation. Locality, Climate, Dress, Health, drid l"^ IV. l^icrta del Sol. — Tublic Habits of the Madrilciios. — Tiie — — Prado. — Equipages. — Ilorsemen. Atocha Walk. Women of Mad rid 22 CONTENTS.