text:  If we consider the effect of all these accumulated circumstances--the travelling on mules the mode of extorting money the plunder of the prisoners by the jailer the rosary with its large beads carried by the Spanish Tartuffe instead of the "haire and the discipline" mentioned by Moliere the description of the hotels of Madrid the inferior condition of surgeons the graceful bearing of the cloak the notary's inkstand the posada in which the actors slept as well as acted the convent in which Philip's mistress is placed with such minute propriety the Gallina Ciega the lane in Madrid the dinner hour of the clerks in the minister's office the knowledge of the ecclesiastical rights of the crown over Granada and of the Aragonese resistance to a foreign viceroy the number of words left in the original Spanish and of others which betray a Spanish origin the names of cities villages and families that rise spontaneously to the hand of the writer and the perpetual mistakes which their enumeration occasions among which we will only here specify that of C_a_ntador for C_o_ntador and the omission of the words "Duc d'Uzeda " which can alone set right a flagrant anachronism--if we consider the effect of all these circumstances we shall look in vain for any reason to doubt the result which such a complication of probabilities conspires to fortify