labours to the memory of poets and others, as well as the naval heroes of his country: see his memoir in Ochoa, vol. ii. p. 586, copied from one by the Bishop of Astorga.
28. Page 164. "Yet fell ye not, ye generous squadrons."
No empero sin venganza y sin estrago,
Generoso escuadron alli caiste:
Tambien brotando à rios
La sangre Inglesa inunda sus navios.
Tambien Albion pasmada
Los montes de cadàveres contempla
Horrendo peso à su soberbia armada.
Tambien Nelson alli, Terrible sombra,
No esperes, no, cuando mi voz te nombra
Que vil insulte à tu postrer suspiro;
Inglès te aborrecì, y hèroe te admiro.
Oh, golpe! oh, suerte! El Tàmesis aguarda
De las naves cautivas
El confuso tropel, y ya en idea
Goza el aplauso y los sonoros vivas
Que al vencedor se dan. Oh suerte! El puerto
Solo le verà entrar pàlido y yerto:
Ejemplo grande à la arrogancia humana,
Digno holocausto à la afliccion Hispana.
The two poems from Quintana are at pages 16 and 93 respectively of the fourth edition of his works, published in 1825.
29. Page 170. "The Conde de Toreno."
This able and enlightened statesman was born at Oviedo in 1786, and died at Paris in 1845. His work, on the 'Rising, War, and Revolution of Spain,' is one well deserving of the fame it has attained, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe.
30. Page 170. "The celebrated Pacheco."
Born at Ecija, near Seville, in 1808, he came to Madrid in 1833, and was admitted an Advocate in the courts of law, but has been since engaged actively in conducting various publications, princi-
