The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-09 00:00:00

LITERATI:IIM

The Cake mad Wilde if Audaiseek. By the Rea. B.
Dornees MolthAT. I vele. Beaky. IMP.
A maa mast to bold, yews., adventurous, and ob-
emitst to travel eat of Uatim paths in Spain. The
amusement, if it be seek is infallibly accompanied
with privation sad pail, recompensed by beautiful
and wild somery, strange .emir, but especially by
intandear• with a population precisely the MOW
that it was three Misdeed pars ago. Tbat the author
before us Whew this, is leVideat from what he says of
Spaia.
lin daily life it, as sear a can be, the sea* On is
petaled is the pages of Osman a lesear that
we en or bear we an sesseintly eassisiled of their
de
serialises ; sad thrash at last it it Men to conaininsh
a this& we are beaten t. sager tbot we beheld a date
of society each as it cussed WO mew sp. The me" the
iees, the ribber., the edam same% picanemotesedil•
mats an is feet altered se lisle by the "MN hog
pain din ens men leanly describe them wins* migemeng
to espy from the homed works of then anthem The
east of tide epos the observer is at Ant rather angular.
Having bees bug aeromemed to resider the messes sad
chassis s ia " Oil Illas" and "Dom Ginn," either ae the
ender at hasty or delimitation of aarpttx, he is name-
pared fee their .swat oneness, him. He is
sunk with surprise to lad seen Minim sad Mild Is a
way andel times from that of dee peers gas
with whom he is tonne rat,
sad era thee eaa hardly
anti his onset, es unreal does everythisi appear. After
this imprisons wears of, there maim the envied= that
Spaia is the lend of ineidest acd adventure—a osadetion
that deepen the more he angles with im people, sad, as a
spectate, oe ream, is intrados:id to strange passages, far
sung.? than any that have sprung from the imagisatios
of her novelists.
The author chose a good route to see the rOMMI-
- of Smin. Hyginning with Ci.d's and Seville,
too well known,but of which he gives a brief and
lively des. dines, In turns Off and traverses that un-
espiored resit a lying between tin Gusdalquivir and
the frontier of Portugal. His first chapters are de-
voted to the sports of the field, or mixer of the forest,
enjoyed in the Coto de San Lacer, en immense tract
at green wood, in the midst of an adust region am the
went banks of the Gusdalquivir. These ohatzvear:
aing, and the sport well described.
and Me convent of San Rabida, whom;
Columbus parted for his Transatlantic voyage are
visited and described, and after a visit to the mines
of Pedrees, the traveller returns to Cordova and the
Onadalquivir. Of the incnitioll at Seville we quote
the foliating, fortunately not very tragic, tale :
Daring the if Foneado Bimini, the absolving he•
ties fee a Ilse eiyiel ea aoseisdancy which it did sot hil
to sapped by the team of the Hely Offer. At that time
the kens litho sosedistiosel party were nadir pranks-
tZassmil had so ether mow n than to beanie refugees as
ohne, from whine, however, they did not cease to
"any es disk onion for restoring liberty to their ',entry.
Oen d theme pleas was to setablsh in Emend a petiodied,
to he weilassin the Spanish language, sad is support of
from this.. it we to be seastly dime-
threogh Spain. Bosh yes apoojed seriesay eater-
Idasdiby ewes et the referee is
creet, Loans, ose of whom,
non sedum dem dis transitted a p it to
salleglla meant, then snidest ia Orville. Oar ef
eina-
hymns reinived the paper, and wee so far mom
hifeetemee ee its nateate, a host imagining it melt
ln
himself is the senses of the ezpstristed- liberals, that he
chewed IS to a friend who happewad to ant r the non jest
as he bed islahed its persist. Is this, however, be was
Moans the following morning, at an early hour, his
=wee entered by the officers et the Ininitios, who
the donsuient to which I have alluded.
n
swift asereadand it, he was then subjected to a seeds
isteseepteeisa all of which wined to be put under the
pee doubt he was the *gest of some formidable onsping,
ergesind aphid the govennent by the eentitatismel
ones is Loads& His Matesesta, however, as to the p►
sessin of the document, sad upon other twists, este n
probable an oessietest, that suspicion co lad theft O
seise epos; sad, after a lessihned ozonised =
thanks depend, lean( Mat is no right
ifesidag the mum of their visit. It is sonesseeey to slid
thatig wee fertnr from his thoughts then to sespose
his Mon of being easeessed with it. Time, however, to
Sego threw light siva the affair, while. at the sans tlmw
it brought Mm his revenge. The downfall of tho
party teak place, and was followed by riots, width lawn.
lities .weee dinned against the detested ;dams of the at
That of Seville, which I have described, was •
tete, its primers liberated, and archives burnt. Anise
these who seek a pert is the work of dears:Aloe was a pa-
thos& who, as glneisg at on of the manuscripts about to
be dismayed, perceived that it related to our countrymeree
sad oesernyly remised it from the CMS. This was the
eat of desseties that had ablated his dwelling to a visit
ken the ; sad, es its being brought to him for
=l he Neogene* the kaadwriting as being that of the
el when I have nen sentinel. His revenge on this
amession was as sea* as rAidel well be imagined. He in.
sited the denouncer to breakfast, sad, when the repast was
Nadu& d, placed before him the evidmise of his bonne,
without ack leg a single remark. The other was at once
overwhelmed with shone and coarusion ; sod, knowing that
seethes none nor apology could be argei, quitted the room
is nine, with feelings whirls, man would envy.
From Cordova the tourist proceeds up the hills to
Almaden, one el the most beautiful rides in the pe
Rissole, whkh he diversifies by the et..ry of Geceral
Fliwer. Then he returns by Jaen, Baena, and La
eons to Granada, His 'comet of the tomb of the
Paospeys, discovered at Baena, is interestir g.

Dula, the intones heat of an Andellutists noon, it is nei-
ther wise nee pleasant to ease inter the rays of the sun while
their stroke Is most 4 ring and the travuler ought rather
to follow the autos of the dissaby, which defers active ex-
ertion to the cool of the evening or morning, whea.it is at-
tended with least danger. Fur these reasons, it was sear
sunset when I stood upon the castle walls with the snood-
sag beside Me, leaning over the battlements sad surveying
the wide prospect, while Le communicated the names of the'
various hamlets and towns that were scattered over the
broad plain. To the northwards, about six miles distant,
it seemed almost under the eye, was a solitary furs-
Innate, which was all that m rked the site of Cuts-sun Pris-
ms, a town of some note in the ancient province of Beetica.
Every day the labourer diulo-es tome memorial of its exist-
ent, as he drives the plough over the founded's' of what
ware ones temples sad dwelliag.houser, sad brings to light
gogsgesig utensils, earthenware, medals, wail he weapons,
and other token, es' the habits and daily life of its R3lllllll
molation. The discovery, however, which attracted cond.
e attention at the time, was that of a sepulchral vault
esataining the ashes of • family who bore the illustrious
name of Pompey. la the year 1833, some IaIo,UKTS con-
nected with the farm pierced through an arch of stone,
which on investigation was found to be the roof of a sub-
limates& chamber, some ten feet Imo by ssven broad.
Oa daceadiag into it, they toned on II ithnt side, about a
foot and a balf from the grouted, a stone shelf urn which
rooted fourteen clattery urass adaseed with Isehastori,s,
vials, mad bowls, one of whisk waste very eleguitdewsad
workmanship. In one corner sto a leaden jar
form, resembling in shape and size a beehive inverted,
which soma es a case for a limp; and, improbable as It
sounds, the men united in affirming that from this a light
woe streraugag ea their first eff,cting an aperture in the
roof. bat was extisguithed either by t:e admission dike ex.
tenni sir, wiry the falling of some rubbish upon the spot,
by *Usk the lamp was broken and` its ntents spilt. Be
this mit may, the remains of some lutinous liquid adhered
to die tenants of the lamp, Mt were undoubtedly the
residua's of the oil or other substance bywbich itwu fed. The
of the land was a man of cultivated mind, and
=rticarto have them transported to his house in Baena,
where I had an opportunity of umiak leg the whole ca./c-
-am The was were of various dimensions and shapes,
generally °blurs and about a foot in length, and wore rather
rudely formed of gay limeetone. Upon one side was served
the name of the deceased ; and, save that simple inserip.
don whisk sppeered as shuOy cut as the day on which it
issued from the graver's bends, no other embellishment
adorned the exterior. Within, there was of course the
usual contents of dust and ashes, mint„led with fragments
of calcined bore. But the names of their owners aroused
a deeper interest, and curled one ant of the fl-bi of anti-
quarian eurissity into the more attractive ono of historic
speculation. 'l% ho was the Pompey whose ashes were in•
tarred in the first of theses's' ? —se appeals from the Callow-
lag inscription: "M. Pomriu, Q. F. Gal. totals 11. Vie
Primus. de Familia Pompom."
The question is difficult to answer satisfactorily, bat one
thing is certain, that these ware not the remains of thmaellt
Pompey, as is urged by a worthy Fuseless' al
Basso ; for, however intimate might be the floc between
that distinguished name and Andalacis, where its last hopes
expired oa the phis of Lund", it is stretetting oujecturs too
far to suppose, that his ashes ware transported from Egypt
to net is an obscure town of a distant Boman province. It
is far more probable that this was the sepulchre of a branch
of the Pummel= family, which appears to have settled hers.
and, from the fact of several barbarous names being engraved
on ether urns, to have intermarried, or otherwise bees
closely allied, with a nee of native origin. Them lames ars
certileily auffitiently uncouth, and such es "would flaw
made Quintillan stare and gyp ss
The first is Vtlatinit, and then follow Mesas, Ipinhim
Velum, fhisetabihan, to w'eicb must be aided a famale one,
Junin Inschuna. Whether they are of Celtibertan se
Phrenician derivation is a question for the lauded to decide;
but it most be coafessed that in the proaaneistion of the
words there is formalist; that remised' as of the Bast. Oa
the last of the urea was carved the solitary word Grareld.
which to the erudite, monk above suationet was • aslideall
founlati.• for dddd Id g another theory, in which the plass
of
sepulture of those popular leaders was traraferred bow
Roan to this remote spot. The worthy father, however,
strangely omitted to riot out how, when, and for what pur-
pose their ealiamation was undertaken ; and appured to
thick that, beaus Gracold won 'Want Bosse and °multi
were buried here, no farther reel umacmes to anablish
their identity, sad that it was oat of dile trondoa he esipnamil
there coati be other bearers of that n e dun these of
whom !awry makes siention.
The work may serve se an excellent gag=
Andalusia, for any one lardy enough to
the tour. It is an exeslleat develop mint of Forts
°Beano* bumbled laths cl dodslaii.l