text:  From the brief review in our last Number of Spain her commercial policy her economical resources her fiscal rigours her financial embarrassments these facts may be said to have been developed:--In the first place that theoretically--that is so far as legislation--Spain is the land of restrictions and prohibitions; and that the principle of protection in behalf not of nascent but of comparatively ancient and still unestablished interests is recognized and carried out in the most latitudinarian sense of absolute interdict or extravagant impost