Italy; With Sketches of Spain and Portugal
BY THE AUTHOR OF “VATHEK.”
THIRD EDITION.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty.
1835.
Portugal
PREFACE
TO
PORTUGUESE LETTERS.
Portugal attracting much attention in her present convulsed and declining state, it might not perhaps be uninteresting to the public to cast back a glance by way of contrast to the happier times when she enjoyed, under the mild and beneficent reign of Donna Maria the First, a great share of courtly and commercial prosperity.
March 1, 1834.