The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-06 00:00:00

selves zealously to the business of recruiting, so as to organize
the corps, of which all that yet exists is the staff.

At all events the Urban Militia of Seville can scarcely be very
numerous. Ido not exaggerate in saying that the clergy, the
monks, and their dependants, form almost half of the population.
The greater part of the real property of the town is concentrated
in their hands. The cathedral alone possesses a thousand
houses ; and of ten thousand and upwards which exist in Se-
ville at least two-thirds are ecclesiastical property. You will
not be surprised at this when I tell you that, between monks
and nuns, there are in this town nearly a hundred convents,
besides twenty-five parish churches, chapels, oratories, and
beatorios without number. This proportion is pretty much the
same at Grenada, Jaen, and Cordova, each of these cities having
its cathedral, and its opulent chapter or cabildo. But to speak
here only of Seville, pray what is to be expected from such a
deplorable state of things ? The city, once so flourishing, from
whence the ships of artes and Ojeda, Columbus and Magellan,
took their departure, has been gradually ruined by the encroach-
ments of the clergy. Its resources eaten up, and its industry
paralyzed, there is now nothing to be seen in its deserted har-
bour, but a few small vessels engaged in the coasting trade of
the Mediterranean.
A grievance of a local nature has added to the discontent
occasioned to the clergy by the late changes in the Ministry.
On the occasion of the carnival, the authorities have given
their sanction to a series of masked bolls, at which the priest-
ridden part of the community areofane extremely
scandalous indignant,
at de-
g them as exceedingly p
moment when these provinces of Spain have been visited with
such , a
committed by the cholera. In spite of the ill humour of the
such
un ce
dent tokens of the Divine displeasure in the ravages
clergy, however, it is evident that all who are not under their
r
immediate influence, are perfectly well satisfied with the pre.
sent aspect of affairs, thanks to the Madrid Gazette of the 15th
January. The troops of the garrison were reviewed by the
Captain_ General the day before yesterday, when a distribution
of crosses and decorations took place. The inhabitants of the
as not less am-
town flocked out in crowds, and the scene w
a cowl or a sotana
mated or less gay because there was scarcely
to be seen among them.
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