Chapter 12

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FOOTNOTES:[1]General Sir George Don.[2]The free warehousing of goods at the Port of Cadiz was permitted from 1828 to 1832, when the increase of smuggling led to its abandonment.[3]The Marques de las Amarillas, who had been War Minister in 1820, was nominated by Ferdinand VII. to the Council of “Regency.” He was appointed Captain-General of Andalusia in 1832.[4]Don Julian Williams, Consul at Seville, and, in Ford’s opinion, the best judge of Spanish pictures then living.[5]Lord Lyndhurst, according to Greville (Memoirs, ed. 1888, vol. ii. p. 69), expected that the Great Seal would be put in commission, and that, after a few months, he would fill the office again. Brougham’s acceptance of the Lord Chancellorship upset his calculations.[6]Greville makes the same criticism, and enumerates six members of the Grey family who were provided for in the distribution of offices. (Ibid., p. 80.)[7]Bible in Spain(ed. 1896), vol. i. p. 181.[8]Bible in Spain, p. 204.[9]A Summer in Andalucia(G. Dennis), vol. i., p. 264, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1839.[10]Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Brackenbury, the Consul at Cadiz.[11]Samuel Edward Cook, Captain in the Royal Navy, assumed in 1840 the name of Widdrington. He published in 1834Sketches in Spain during 1829-32(London, 2 vols. 8vo). He paid a second visit to Spain in 1843, accompanied by Professor Daubeny, then Professor of Botany and Chemistry at Oxford. Of this visit Captain Widdrington gives an account in hisSpain and the Spaniards in 1843(London, 2 vols. 8vo, 1844).[12]L’Espagne sous Ferdinand VII.Par le Marquis Astolphe de Custine. 4 tomes, 12º, Bruxelles, 1838.[13]“Widow of a Brigadier” at Granada, says Captain Cook (Sketches in Spain, vol. i., p. 327).[14]“Ally Croaker” is a song in Foote’s comedyThe Englishman in Paris(1753): it was sung by Miss Macklin to the guitar.[15]Alluding to the name assumed by the husband of Mrs. Ford inThe Merry Wives of Windsor.[16]Half a farthing the pitcher.[17]Probably Ford had advised Addington to wear a cheap watch for fear of brigands. To have no watch at all was construed as an attempt to cheat the robber of his legitimate reward, and exposed a traveller to worse treatment than a slender purse.[18]In 1830 the Parliamentary area of the corrupt Borough of East Retford was enlarged by the addition of the Hundred of Bassetlaw, in which the delinquent borough was situated (1 Wm. IV. c. 74). The borough electorate was thus increased by the forty-shilling freeholders who already voted in the elections for their county. (Porritt’sUnreformed House of Commons, vol. i. p. 16.)[19]The guitars made at Cadiz by Juan Pajez, and his son Josef rank with the violins of Stradivarius. The best have a backboard of dark wood calledPalo Santo.[20]Vicente Joanes, or Juanes (1523-1579).[21]Francisco Ribalta (1551-1628).[22]Spain in 1830.By H. D. Inglis, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1831.[23]Mohammed I. (Ibn-al-Ahmar), 1238-71, is said to have begun the Alhambra in 1248. When he returned from the surrender of Seville, his subjects saluted him by the titlegalibor conqueror. He replied “Le galib ile Allah” (“There is no conqueror but God”). The words are everywhere introduced in the building as the founder’s motto.El Rey chicowas the name given to Abu Abdullah (corrupted by the Spaniards into Boabdila), the last Moorish King of Granada.[24]El Santo Rostro, the impression of our Saviour’s face on the handkerchief of St. Veronica, was only shown to the public on great festivals.[25]Ford’sHandbook for Travellers in Spainis dedicated to Sir William Eden, Bart., “in remembrance of pleasant years spent in well-beloved Spain.”[26]Don Juan Antonio Monet, appointed Minister of War October 1832.[27]The village of Arapiles was the Duke of Wellington’s position at the battle of Salamanca, July 22nd, 1812.[28]The visit which John Frederick Lewis (1805-76) paid to Spain (1832-4) was a turning-point in his artistic career. Till then he had devoted himself almost exclusively to animals. HisSketches and Drawings of the Alhambrawere published in 1835, and hisSketches of Spain and Spanish Characterin 1836. Frederick Christian Lewis, the father of “Spanish” Lewis, was a well-known engraver and landscape painter.[29]The Infante, Francisco de Paula, youngest child of Maria Luisa, wife of Charles IV., was said to be her son by Godoy. He married the Princess Carlota, sister of Queen Christina and the Duchesse de Berry. His son was King Consort of Isabella II. (1846).[30]A cuartois a copper coin of the value of fourmaravedis, i.e. about a farthing.[31]Captain (afterwards Admiral Sir George) Sartorius, was in 1831 appointed to command the Portuguese fleet acting for Maria da Gloria against Dom Miguel. His command was successful. But the final blow was struck by Captain (afterwards Admiral Sir Charles) Napier, who succeeded him in June 1833. Napier destroyed Dom Miguel’s fleet off Cape St. Vincent, July 3rd, 1833. The news reached London on July 14th, “to the great delight of the Whigs and equal mortification of the Tories” (Greville Memoirs, ed. 1888, vol. iii. p. 9).[32]TheMaestranzawas a corporation of gentlemen, instituted by Charles V., to improve the breed of horses, encourage equestrian exercises, and control the management of amphitheatres. Men of rank and good family, like Don Rafael Guzman, rarely adopted the profession oftoreador. But the Infante, Don Francisco, was at the head of a movement to revive the art of bull-fighting.[33]Sir Walter Scott died September 21st, 1832.[34]See page 1.[35]The Egyptian troops under Ibrahim Pacha, son of Mehemet Ali, defeated the Turks at Konieh, December 21st, 1832. The Sultan appealed for aid to the Czar, who ordered 30,000 troops and 12 sail of the line to go to the protection of Constantinople. Further hostilities were averted by the treaty of Kutayah, May 1833.[36]The capture of Alhama, the key to Granada, February 28th, 1482, prepared the way for the expulsion of the Moors.Ay de mi, Alhama!(“Woe is me, Alhama!”) is the refrain of Byron’s “very mournful ballad” (Poems, vol. iv., pp. 529-34, ed. 1901).[37]Spanish Bull-feasts and Bull-fights.By Richard Ford.Quarterly Review, No. CXXIV., October 1838, pp. 395-6.[38]Sir Edmund Head wrote, among other works and translations,A Handbook of the History of the Spanish and French Schools of Painting(London, 1848), which was reviewed by Ford in the Quarterly Review, No. CLXV., June 1848, pp. 1-37.[39]A volume of the sketches of David Roberts was published in 1837, under the title ofPicturesque Sketches in Spain.[40]James Ford (1797-1877) was ordained in 1821, and became a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral in 1849. A good classical scholar, he was a voluminous writer, chiefly on religious and moral subjects. In 1825 he married Jane Frances Nagle. Their eldest daughter married Thomas Hughes, the author ofTom Brown’s School Days, which Richard Ford, himself a contemporary of Arnold at Winchester, reviewed in theQuarterly Reviewfor October 1857, the last article he ever wrote.[41]General Manuel Llauder commanded the Royalist troops against the Liberal leaders Mina and Valdès in Navarre, and by the capture of Vera, October 1830, had suppressed the rising. As Inspector-General of Infantry, he was chosen by Queen Christina, in October 1832, to replace the Conde de España, an avowed Carlist, as Captain-General of Catalonia. Ford probably means that Llauder, who at first had been inclined to moderate Liberalism, grew reactionary in his views. It was his later political opinions which made his appointment as Minister of War in 1835 so unpopular, and in July 1835 led to his expulsion from Barcelona.[42]James Howell’sEpistolæ Ho-elianæ; Familiar Letters, Domestic and Foreign, etc., 4 vols., 1645-55.[43]TheItinéraire descriptif de l’Espagne(par Alexandre de Laborde, 5 tomes, Paris, 1806-21) was edited by Bory de Saint Vincent in 1827, who, in 1823, had published aGuide du Voyageur en Espagne(Paris, 1823).[44]The two articles, one on the Spanish Theatre, the other a review ofSemilasso in Africa, appeared in No. CXVII. of theQuarterly Review(July 1837), pp. 62-87 and 133-64 respectively.[45]Mariana Starke wroteTravels in Europe for the use of Travellers on the Continent, and likewise in the Island of Sicily. To which is added an account of the remains of ancient Italy. (1st Edition, 1820; 8th Edition, 1833.)[46]Reprinted from theMemoir of John Murray. By Samuel Smiles, vol. ii. pp. 491-2.[47]The Bible in Spain.By George Borrow, London, 1842 (2 vols. 12mo).[48]“Mr. Borrow’s book on theGipsies of Spain, published a couple of years ago, was so much and so well reviewed (though not, to our shame be it said, in our own journal), that we cannot suppose his name is new to any of our readers.”—Quarterly Review, No. CXLI. (Dec. 1842), p. 169.[49]‘Meta’ Ford, born October 1840, the only child of Richard Ford’s second wife, married Oswald John Frederick Crawford, and died in 1899. She inherited much of her father’s wit, love of art, and conversational ability.[50]Histoire de la Révolution en Espagne.3 vols. Leipzig, 1829-31.[51]Georgina Ford married the Rev. Mowbray Northcote, third and youngest son of Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bart., of Pynes, near Exeter.[52]Mary Jane Ford married Edmund Tyrwhitt, second son of Sir T. Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart.[53]Miss Caroline Molesworth, Mrs. Ford’s aunt, was a distinguished botanist and meteorologist, whose scientific papers were edited by Miss Ormerod (Cobham Journals: Meteorological Observations, London, 1880, 8vo).[54]He also reviewed Larpent’sJournalin theEdinburgh Reviewfor July 1853 (vol. xcviii. pp. 216-40).

FOOTNOTES:

[1]General Sir George Don.

[2]The free warehousing of goods at the Port of Cadiz was permitted from 1828 to 1832, when the increase of smuggling led to its abandonment.

[3]The Marques de las Amarillas, who had been War Minister in 1820, was nominated by Ferdinand VII. to the Council of “Regency.” He was appointed Captain-General of Andalusia in 1832.

[4]Don Julian Williams, Consul at Seville, and, in Ford’s opinion, the best judge of Spanish pictures then living.

[5]Lord Lyndhurst, according to Greville (Memoirs, ed. 1888, vol. ii. p. 69), expected that the Great Seal would be put in commission, and that, after a few months, he would fill the office again. Brougham’s acceptance of the Lord Chancellorship upset his calculations.

[6]Greville makes the same criticism, and enumerates six members of the Grey family who were provided for in the distribution of offices. (Ibid., p. 80.)

[7]Bible in Spain(ed. 1896), vol. i. p. 181.

[8]Bible in Spain, p. 204.

[9]A Summer in Andalucia(G. Dennis), vol. i., p. 264, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1839.

[10]Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Brackenbury, the Consul at Cadiz.

[11]Samuel Edward Cook, Captain in the Royal Navy, assumed in 1840 the name of Widdrington. He published in 1834Sketches in Spain during 1829-32(London, 2 vols. 8vo). He paid a second visit to Spain in 1843, accompanied by Professor Daubeny, then Professor of Botany and Chemistry at Oxford. Of this visit Captain Widdrington gives an account in hisSpain and the Spaniards in 1843(London, 2 vols. 8vo, 1844).

[12]L’Espagne sous Ferdinand VII.Par le Marquis Astolphe de Custine. 4 tomes, 12º, Bruxelles, 1838.

[13]“Widow of a Brigadier” at Granada, says Captain Cook (Sketches in Spain, vol. i., p. 327).

[14]“Ally Croaker” is a song in Foote’s comedyThe Englishman in Paris(1753): it was sung by Miss Macklin to the guitar.

[15]Alluding to the name assumed by the husband of Mrs. Ford inThe Merry Wives of Windsor.

[16]Half a farthing the pitcher.

[17]Probably Ford had advised Addington to wear a cheap watch for fear of brigands. To have no watch at all was construed as an attempt to cheat the robber of his legitimate reward, and exposed a traveller to worse treatment than a slender purse.

[18]In 1830 the Parliamentary area of the corrupt Borough of East Retford was enlarged by the addition of the Hundred of Bassetlaw, in which the delinquent borough was situated (1 Wm. IV. c. 74). The borough electorate was thus increased by the forty-shilling freeholders who already voted in the elections for their county. (Porritt’sUnreformed House of Commons, vol. i. p. 16.)

[19]The guitars made at Cadiz by Juan Pajez, and his son Josef rank with the violins of Stradivarius. The best have a backboard of dark wood calledPalo Santo.

[20]Vicente Joanes, or Juanes (1523-1579).

[21]Francisco Ribalta (1551-1628).

[22]Spain in 1830.By H. D. Inglis, 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1831.

[23]Mohammed I. (Ibn-al-Ahmar), 1238-71, is said to have begun the Alhambra in 1248. When he returned from the surrender of Seville, his subjects saluted him by the titlegalibor conqueror. He replied “Le galib ile Allah” (“There is no conqueror but God”). The words are everywhere introduced in the building as the founder’s motto.El Rey chicowas the name given to Abu Abdullah (corrupted by the Spaniards into Boabdila), the last Moorish King of Granada.

[24]El Santo Rostro, the impression of our Saviour’s face on the handkerchief of St. Veronica, was only shown to the public on great festivals.

[25]Ford’sHandbook for Travellers in Spainis dedicated to Sir William Eden, Bart., “in remembrance of pleasant years spent in well-beloved Spain.”

[26]Don Juan Antonio Monet, appointed Minister of War October 1832.

[27]The village of Arapiles was the Duke of Wellington’s position at the battle of Salamanca, July 22nd, 1812.

[28]The visit which John Frederick Lewis (1805-76) paid to Spain (1832-4) was a turning-point in his artistic career. Till then he had devoted himself almost exclusively to animals. HisSketches and Drawings of the Alhambrawere published in 1835, and hisSketches of Spain and Spanish Characterin 1836. Frederick Christian Lewis, the father of “Spanish” Lewis, was a well-known engraver and landscape painter.

[29]The Infante, Francisco de Paula, youngest child of Maria Luisa, wife of Charles IV., was said to be her son by Godoy. He married the Princess Carlota, sister of Queen Christina and the Duchesse de Berry. His son was King Consort of Isabella II. (1846).

[30]A cuartois a copper coin of the value of fourmaravedis, i.e. about a farthing.

[31]Captain (afterwards Admiral Sir George) Sartorius, was in 1831 appointed to command the Portuguese fleet acting for Maria da Gloria against Dom Miguel. His command was successful. But the final blow was struck by Captain (afterwards Admiral Sir Charles) Napier, who succeeded him in June 1833. Napier destroyed Dom Miguel’s fleet off Cape St. Vincent, July 3rd, 1833. The news reached London on July 14th, “to the great delight of the Whigs and equal mortification of the Tories” (Greville Memoirs, ed. 1888, vol. iii. p. 9).

[32]TheMaestranzawas a corporation of gentlemen, instituted by Charles V., to improve the breed of horses, encourage equestrian exercises, and control the management of amphitheatres. Men of rank and good family, like Don Rafael Guzman, rarely adopted the profession oftoreador. But the Infante, Don Francisco, was at the head of a movement to revive the art of bull-fighting.

[33]Sir Walter Scott died September 21st, 1832.

[34]See page 1.

[35]The Egyptian troops under Ibrahim Pacha, son of Mehemet Ali, defeated the Turks at Konieh, December 21st, 1832. The Sultan appealed for aid to the Czar, who ordered 30,000 troops and 12 sail of the line to go to the protection of Constantinople. Further hostilities were averted by the treaty of Kutayah, May 1833.

[36]The capture of Alhama, the key to Granada, February 28th, 1482, prepared the way for the expulsion of the Moors.Ay de mi, Alhama!(“Woe is me, Alhama!”) is the refrain of Byron’s “very mournful ballad” (Poems, vol. iv., pp. 529-34, ed. 1901).

[37]Spanish Bull-feasts and Bull-fights.By Richard Ford.Quarterly Review, No. CXXIV., October 1838, pp. 395-6.

[38]Sir Edmund Head wrote, among other works and translations,A Handbook of the History of the Spanish and French Schools of Painting(London, 1848), which was reviewed by Ford in the Quarterly Review, No. CLXV., June 1848, pp. 1-37.

[39]A volume of the sketches of David Roberts was published in 1837, under the title ofPicturesque Sketches in Spain.

[40]James Ford (1797-1877) was ordained in 1821, and became a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral in 1849. A good classical scholar, he was a voluminous writer, chiefly on religious and moral subjects. In 1825 he married Jane Frances Nagle. Their eldest daughter married Thomas Hughes, the author ofTom Brown’s School Days, which Richard Ford, himself a contemporary of Arnold at Winchester, reviewed in theQuarterly Reviewfor October 1857, the last article he ever wrote.

[41]General Manuel Llauder commanded the Royalist troops against the Liberal leaders Mina and Valdès in Navarre, and by the capture of Vera, October 1830, had suppressed the rising. As Inspector-General of Infantry, he was chosen by Queen Christina, in October 1832, to replace the Conde de España, an avowed Carlist, as Captain-General of Catalonia. Ford probably means that Llauder, who at first had been inclined to moderate Liberalism, grew reactionary in his views. It was his later political opinions which made his appointment as Minister of War in 1835 so unpopular, and in July 1835 led to his expulsion from Barcelona.

[42]James Howell’sEpistolæ Ho-elianæ; Familiar Letters, Domestic and Foreign, etc., 4 vols., 1645-55.

[43]TheItinéraire descriptif de l’Espagne(par Alexandre de Laborde, 5 tomes, Paris, 1806-21) was edited by Bory de Saint Vincent in 1827, who, in 1823, had published aGuide du Voyageur en Espagne(Paris, 1823).

[44]The two articles, one on the Spanish Theatre, the other a review ofSemilasso in Africa, appeared in No. CXVII. of theQuarterly Review(July 1837), pp. 62-87 and 133-64 respectively.

[45]Mariana Starke wroteTravels in Europe for the use of Travellers on the Continent, and likewise in the Island of Sicily. To which is added an account of the remains of ancient Italy. (1st Edition, 1820; 8th Edition, 1833.)

[46]Reprinted from theMemoir of John Murray. By Samuel Smiles, vol. ii. pp. 491-2.

[47]The Bible in Spain.By George Borrow, London, 1842 (2 vols. 12mo).

[48]“Mr. Borrow’s book on theGipsies of Spain, published a couple of years ago, was so much and so well reviewed (though not, to our shame be it said, in our own journal), that we cannot suppose his name is new to any of our readers.”—Quarterly Review, No. CXLI. (Dec. 1842), p. 169.

[49]‘Meta’ Ford, born October 1840, the only child of Richard Ford’s second wife, married Oswald John Frederick Crawford, and died in 1899. She inherited much of her father’s wit, love of art, and conversational ability.

[50]Histoire de la Révolution en Espagne.3 vols. Leipzig, 1829-31.

[51]Georgina Ford married the Rev. Mowbray Northcote, third and youngest son of Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, Bart., of Pynes, near Exeter.

[52]Mary Jane Ford married Edmund Tyrwhitt, second son of Sir T. Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart.

[53]Miss Caroline Molesworth, Mrs. Ford’s aunt, was a distinguished botanist and meteorologist, whose scientific papers were edited by Miss Ormerod (Cobham Journals: Meteorological Observations, London, 1880, 8vo).

[54]He also reviewed Larpent’sJournalin theEdinburgh Reviewfor July 1853 (vol. xcviii. pp. 216-40).

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