{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
of the present state Of society in that ancient
and celebrated city.


"Ot this far-famed city, once the resi-
dence of the richest, most brilliant and most
influential court in Europe, the capital Of a
never set; and whose power was almost
commensurate with its extent; there remain
but scanty traces of what it once was. A
court, rendered contemplate by its imbecili-
ty and tyranny, its poverty and indepen-
dence; priesthood, like locusts, destroying
the last remnants of verduie, mobiles in ex-
lie, and their palaces falling to ruins or CEN
verted into barracks for soldiers; foreign
mcrcenares combined with domestic troops,
assisting to wrcst from industry its hard
earnings; the colonies gone, and commerce
and the fat Offices they afforded to courtly
beggsrs and INDECENT fayorites annihilated;
public credit at such stand that they cam
not obtain loan in London or Paris, on as
advantageous terms as their cidevant colo
MICS can: prescription and severe punishment
for any unguarded expression relative to
politics; and spies to communicate to the
police. any such information as shall tend
to exalt them in the estimation OF their
employers, although it be at the expense Of
the ruin cf an innocent family; rogues pro-
tccted and screened from justice, if they are
able to pay for it; ''the laws delay" though
great every where, peculiarly SO here; and
offices in possession OF sycophants;-the
streets crowded with beggars, and the roads
in it's envrons, infested with banditti:-ouch
is an outline, by no means exaggerated, OF
the present state of Madrid and Of SPAIN