SPANISH WOMEN. .. “(brow a rouune Taiaith be Spats) * ; Ifthe men are-dittinguifled by thesr peculiar ! charadter, the Spanifly wdinen afe dittingdthable for the warmth of their ceallitutions. I will 4 give you fome account, of theni,., A fanatical enthuliafm for the religious Gy 4 tem of their country;-pride that, would bénd. every thing beneath its pbke,.a fngularity that, Knows no law but its,ayn ywill, paffign tor re- venge, in oppofition to whigh vidthing“is* held’ faeyed, and an unbridled Idvé of pleafuré, are > by no means an amiable afferhblage of qualities ¢, yet allshefe are compenfated in the Spanifh women by a fidelity and an attachiaent tht nothing can fhake, by ftrength of mind and he= , roilm carried to the utmolt height. All their ! fenfations are violent, but they have a charace ter of enetgy and of Cublimity thet,would car- 1y you away, in fpite of your better judgment," and of alh your plilofephy ‘dog "The phyliognomy of 3 Spanifh woman bears the {lamp of fentibility. « Hee dewder form, her majeltic ttep, her fonorous voice, lier black + | } and brilliant eye, the vivacity of.-her pelticula. tion, in a word,-the whole a@ion of her per- fon, fhowa the temperature of her foul, Her premature charms are too foon difplayed, and fade with equal rapidity. The climate, the’ héating aliments they ule, excefa in their amufe> ments, every thitg contributes to produce this eller. At forty years of age, a Spanifh wo. men feema twice as old, and her whole exterior f fhews exhauition ad premature old age. Ale matt all have a dotyn upou their, upperdip, a peculiarity which Mews the warmth of their conttitution, bur which ia fo difagreeable, thas, they have recoule to the velleras, or worn’! whofe bafincfsit isto pluck uut the hair AlA4 mot all have {poiled ther teeth, by an inure f ‘derate ule of dalees ov Cwectineats. 5 : A. Spanifh woman ts Gneerely and irrevoca- bly attached to her religion er tender yen- eration for the Madoniia, her devotion to her, Patron Saint, mlay occupy her infantine heait, ithe pomp of ceremonies may amufe her une | prattifed Fenfes; but thee pibus illufiags, thus! rayltical enthufiatin, and thefe facred teacernt("} | ‘fes, certainly open her foul to, the attacks of & ‘love. ‘Po fovea Saint naturally awakens a finfe of her fexuality.; and thus a veluptu. ous devotion becomes, from lixrecn years of age,t, the moft important occupatiéa of her life— In this view alone, can the cottradittions ind her conduGt be explained, and her continual! alternations of pe utenees and aberration ate, | counted for, as well as the phylical influences, exercifed aver her by the Prielts, t Divided between religions duties and , the § pleafures of fenfe, a Spanifh woman feems to be in a flate‘of continual warfare between her con cience and'ler conltitution. Yet, ‘in fpite of conflraint, nature at lefigth overcomes the fie, our of her ptinciples 3 and the ends by quiet-, ing her confelence with the idea‘aftbeing ableY to expiate enjoyment ‘by a mafa ora PTAy Gtrmme Hence it is by no means rare to 'feq a beautiful, woman quit the arms af love to kneel before a! IMadenna 5+ and being reconciled by. this a& of 3 devotiou, again halten to give herfelf. up to 4 pleafure. rT The Spasth women, hoyyevery are vyery: far = from delicate in objeéts of this kind. With as | warm imagination and burning paffions, they are ignorant of thofe charnis, thofe {weet ily | fions, which the fair fex'derive from delicaey.; Hence the mott unreftrained language, andthe mottlafcivious ldoks, are incapable'ct making? them bluthy and what would excite the'uimoit: indignation in a German or an Englith woman,: appears perfectly fimple and natural to a native of Spain, who yields without referve to fich licentions images aa the former wopld not dare to contemplate even in folitude, , It would be an error,’ however, to infer from the(e remarks, the certainty of feecefs in the" enterpiifesafa lover, They fpeal, it is trues on thefe fubjects with the freedom ¢f mer their lips, their eyes, and their cara are alike ftrangers ta chaflity, but their pridé prevents’ their yroing farther. ,.Such aa attempt fiom af man, would thow a fenfe ‘of {uperiority, wheres! ‘as "tis they muft reign with yncontiouled pow- er. Every fuch advance would therefore be * reje€ted with diflain. They int not be cho-_, fen, ’tis they mutt chufe. *Tis ‘they that take#’ upon thernfelves the part of the man, to wham they only leave the duty of complying with! their withes, and giving himfelf up entirely ta their “Wwill., Hence’ it is, that the'inoft timid » and the coldeft of imen are often more fuccelssi ful with them than the molt enterprifing and tmpaffioned lover, Their defpotifm forces thé, former to pay homage to their charms,‘for their! pride has fixed upon them as their-flaves. The more indifferent thefe appear, the,more ardour’ the women thaw. ; the more he fhuns her, the more fhe purfaes him. Ont would imagine the loved him, yet the only defires ta be the object, of hislove. She feems to give herfelf up te him, yet the only fecks to reduce him to fubmits | cs They are, however, faithful and confanta ‘ Thegenergy of their character prefeeves shea, | from levity, and thetr pride from bafenels, i "They are fafceptible of the matt elevated fens, timents, of the molt nable facrifices, of the molt generous actions ; but the fource of thefe mult be fought, not fo much in ber attachmen: to the obje& the loves, a3 in the idea the entertains of herfelf. She confiders her lover as her propers ty; and ufes the fame complaifance towards him, that fhe would feel for herlelf ; But the ex- ads in return, the mofk abfolute devotion to her twill, ’ | Nothing can be more burthenfome than the 'reftraint attached to the title of lover : it is one ‘uninterrupted fucceffion of minute cares and ate tentions, Chained to the arm of his cavafpofa, he muk accompany her every where, like her fhadow. ~ At the Prado, at Mada, at the Thea- trey at the Confeffienal, never mult he quit her, and the whole weight of heraffairaef every kind refta upon his fhoulters Never mutt he ap- proach her empty-handed, efpecially on feat days. ‘Lu tum,a with, however Mighty expref te Face rpaay hoe q , f 3 ee =a . , ( fed,a capiice the molt undecided, isa command | while-che meft inviolable refpedt tor her whims 47 and fancies, and the mofl uaditurbed fubmiffion of temper, are facred duties—in a word, he mult ta all things be the paifive agent of a woman, whofs ardent imagimation often cominands swhat ia impolible, with the mot impatient ego- | zim | | na werner tetas th chase rn eeiiarrercecentcne-nesemeceurmad |