The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-11-02

the highest price. Living here is to living
in France, with respect to expense, IN the
same proportion as four and half is to one
A hundred crowns for coming from Irun to
Madrid six francs for the most miserable
sort of rcpast There are no robbers, or at
least very few. We entertain much preju-
dice in this respect. Travellers having all
adopted the resolution of taking very little
money with them, have quite disgusted the
robbers. We generally have an escort thro'
the detiles. At Bergara. in the defie OF
Pancerbo, Sulinas, Somo Sierra and Cabre-
ra, we had escorts for which we paid very
high The chief of one of them, who had
been a robber formerly, told us that he now
received much more for escorting travellers,
than he used to do in robbing them. Such is
Spainl
You are not, perhaps, at all aware of what
description the Spanish police is at present,
or to what degree the Constitution OF For
tugal has inspired the Government with ter
ror. independently of the Manifesto issued
by the king for the purpose of giving conf
dence to the friends of absolute power,
Manifesto which affords kind OF text
here for thousand conjectures, the sever-
tv of the police is strict in the extreme. At
Madrid, no person is admitted into the city,
unless he bears with him passport, or bill
Of protection; and n man coming distance
of six leagues. must provide himself with tho
same. IF YOU want to leave the city. you
must apply to Commisary of Police, who
points out on piece OF paper called h0he-
iete, the gate of the city through which You
are to take Your departure. No one enters.
peascnt, labourcr, or horscman. he who
rides in carriage. or he who walks OH foot,
who is not obliged to submit his papers for
examination at the police office, established
outside each barrier. / have seen farmers
and gardeners from the neighbourhood .!
the capita, sent home from the gate i'ues-
carraI. because they had not their Carta de
Segurdad. Foreign travellers, who were
supplied with passports from their respect
i've Governments, have been compelled to-
Yat FIVE hours between two geudarmcs at
the gate Of the city. until it pleased the In
tendant 70 write under their passports ''1er-
mitted to cnter," and al this merely be
cause said passports had the expression al
lont rn Fshdgnc Instead of afiant a lladrid.
The Spaniaris continue in this place,
which nobody grudgcs them; and the Portu-
gnese never leave home. Besides this, the
situation of the Spanish Army is deplorable.
The soldiers are almost naked; the Spanish
guards alone are Clothed and they don't
know their exercise. The Royal Volunteers
can hardly distinguish their left from the
right hand; SO that the Spanish Government
50 far from thinking of a crusade against the
Constitution of Portugal. that they are only
employ ed in considering how they shall en-
circle themselves with a Gordon Sanitaire.
But M. Recacho is well employed the six
hundred gendarmes on horseback, which he
el OF the Royal Gendarmerie of Paris, whose
uniform they bear, don't suffer the people
to think at all Of what is passing in Portu-
gal. Every body is for absolute power, and
the faults OF the Cortes are admitted. Mis-
fortune has taught the most sanguine expe-
rience, 80 that if ever step Is taken to-
wards better order of things, it may be
fairly said that it should be remote from all
extremes