113 REVELATIONS OF SPAIN IN 1845. BY AN ENGLISH RESIDENT. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. MDCCCXLV. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. EDITOR'S PREFACE. AT a period when public attention has been so strongly attracted by Spain and Spanish affairs, and when the changes and revolutions which have occurred in that singular country are still unaccounted for and incomprehensible to the vast majority of Englishmen, no prefatorial apology can be deemed necessary for the present volumes.. The want has for some time been felt of a book, which, while conveying to its readers an accurate account of the changes above alluded to, should also afford them abundant data by which to form their own judgment as to the causes, immediate and remote, of those changes. A sound opinion on so intricate a subject could not be formed without an accurate knowledge of the institutions of Spain, and of the Spanish character as it really is, and not as popular error and prejudice, or superficial observers, have frequently portrayed it. In these volumes the above conditions have, it is believed, been amply fulfilled. The result of no partial tour or hurried passage through the Peninsula, but of the residence for several years in that country of |