Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BARCELONA 5 goodness. Her daughter was with her, and is entitled to every praise. Nothing of interest to Mataro, ' a charming little town, full of life, manufactures, and spirit.' I walked about and experienced what I could never have believed otherwise, the extreme derision and scorn with which a woman is treated who does not conform to the Spanish mode of dressing. Churches heavily laden with golden ornaments, bad taste, outside mean, and without any pretentions even to architecture. Prince of Conti! made to live at Mataro. nth.—Flat road to Barcelona; met and spoke with the P. of Conti on the road. His wit will never restore the H. of Bourbon. Just before that city passed a torrent which is bad at times. Owing to Mr. Stembor's 8 civility we experienced no trouble at the gates, and drove through the streets to the residence he had with difficulty procured for us. It was a spacious, handsome mansion exactly in the centre of the city, built round a small square court into which the windows of the apartments looked. The streets which surrounded the house are at the widest 8 feet 8 inches, geometrically measured by Mr. Allen. Houses high, roofs projecting, by which means a ray of sun never can nor never did penetrate into a single apartment. In this dreary dungeon I and my poor children were destined to remain, as it is utterly impracticable to hire a carriage, first because the Court had taken allhorses, and, 2dly, because it is never the custom to hire any in Barcelona. Walking the streets was also out of the question, not only from the danger of being exposed to meet a carriage in the streets but from the certainty of being insulted owing to the dress. 1 Louis Francois Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Conti (1734-1814), son of Louis Francois, Prince de Conti, and the l...