SEVILLE. THE GIRALDA. Drawn by J. F. Lewis. "Fair is proud Seville; let her country boast Her strength, her wealth, her site of ancient days." Childe Harold, canto i. st. 65. AN adventure which Byron met with at Seville, which, says Moore, is characteristic both of the country and of himself, is thus described in a letter to Mrs. Byron. "We lodged in the house of two Spanish unmarried ladies, who possess six houses in Seville, and gave me a curious specimen of Spanish manners. They are women of character; and the eldest a fine woman, the younger pretty, but not so good a figure as Donna Josepha. The freedom of manner which is general here astonished me not a little; and in the course of further observation, I find that reserve is not the characteristic of Spanish belles, who are, in general, very handsome, with large black eyes, and very fine forms. The eldest honoured your unworthy son with very par ticular attention, embracing him with great tenderness at parting (I was there but three days), after cutting off a lock of his hair, and presenting him with one of her own, about three feet in length, which I send, and beg will retain till my return. Her last words were, you Adios, tu hermosa!-me gusto mucho!' 'Adieu, you pretty fellow! - you please me much!' She offered me a share of her apartment, which my virtue induced me to decline; she laughed, and said I had some English amante' (lover); and added, that she was going to be married to an officer in the Spanish army." 6 His summary, however, of Spanish female character is a reproach to the nation. "The women of Seville are, in general, very handsome, with large black eyes, and forms more graceful in motion than can be conceived by an Englishman, added to the most becoming dress, and at the same time the most decent in the world. Certainly they are fascinating ; but their minds have only one idea, and the business of their lives is intrigue. The wife of a duke is, in information, as the wife of a peasant-the wife of a peasant, in manner, equal to a duchess." Of the Moorish structures, for which Seville is celebrated, one of the most remarkable is the subject of the engraving the Tower of the Cathedral-which was anciently the minaret of the most celebrated mosque in |