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    sees nothing but beauty , grandeur , and splendour—a realization of one of those romantic pictures which his imagination has painted while he read . Projecting out of the sea was the strong bulwark of defence , Fort St . Sebastian , on the extreme point of which , the lofty watch-tower looked out upon the ocean , and

    gazed down on the splintered billows , which foamed and whirled round the Porcus reefs , and fixed the sight of a gazer from the sea , in spite of himself , for a while . Then , glancing upwards , the eye rested on and ran along the thousands of little turrets or Miradors ., which give to Cadiz so singular an aspect—beautiful indeed , even though they are used as posts for the Spanish

    washerwomen ' s clothes-lines ; but magical when appropriated to their original and more agreeable use of supporting tinted ^ striped awnings , under which the black-eyed and silken-footed Andalusian damsels parade or sit screened from the sun ' s fierce rays , to inhale the sea-breeze , and gaze upon the flashing mirror and the Sierra Ronda ; or sometimes wafting a rich , fond look ,

    or a wistful sigh over the sandy isthmus , up to Medina Sidonia , which lies , like a flock of sheep , herded on the mountain ' s side , and to those ragged , jagged , whimsically shaped , uplifting , dusky , dark , dim , and sober hills , which lead the spirit over into that paradise of the old Moors , the Vega of Grenada . But , reader , there was one ingredient in the finishing glory ot these assembled

    objects , which , if you now take a trip to Cadiz , you will not find : doubtless , it was that which called many a glance from many a lustrous eye under those awnings on . the roofs ; viz ., that evermoving and ever-splendid array of magnificent ships of war , twelve sail of the line , and the scattered frigates , which spotted the blue and glistening waters with their gorgeous pride and

    graceful glory ; at one hour studding the distant horizon with their white sails ; now sweeping along in stately majesty away to the westward ; then mingling among the shadows of the dark rocks and hills to the eastward ; now riding over the billows in gallant order , full before the city ' s ramparts , and pausing to be gazed on while they frowned defiance ; then slowly rolling away in calm contempt .

    Frequently the fleet stood far away out of the sight of land , probably in the futile hope of luring the enemy from their secure harbourage : but they were too wise to allow themselves to be caught in such a trap . Napoleon ' s policy with his navy was niuch deeper than , at that time , it was by our government conjectured to be . He , perhaps , anticipated wearing us out by a

    continuall y increasing expense . In every harbour where there was convenience for laying down a man-of-war ' s keel , he was building ships ; and at the period of which I speak , the whole northern division of the Mediterranean was his : his aim was to make it necessary for the English to send ships to watch them . Thus the French naval force was increasing with astonishing rapidity , and the resources

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    Autobiography ofPtL Verjuice . 217

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 217, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/61/