text:  We fully agree with Captain Widdrington in liking the Spanish character as a whole in appreciating its fine qualities in rendering ample justice to that courtesy of feeling and manner so agreeable to those who have intercourse with Spaniards and that may truly be called national seeing that it is found as commonly under the coarse _manta_ of the muleteer as beneath the velvet-lined _capa_ of the high-born hidalgo; but we have some small experience of Spain and a more considerable one of Spaniards and we cannot for the life of us think them so tractable and easy to guide into the right path or so exceedingly averse to bloodshed