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204 MR. BUCHANAN’S IMPORTATIONS.—Spain.
left England for Lisbon in the month of Octo-
ber, 1807.
It has often been remarked, that “ in troubled
waters we catch the best fish.” This observation
is no doubt true; but great risk and danger often
attend the traversing of such waters in pursuing
the object in view.
That Mr. Wallis did succeed in a most surpris-
ing manner, is proved by the many capital pic-
tures which were in the course of the five follow-
ing years sent by him to this country; but in the
accomplishment of this object he had to encounter
dangers, and to suffer inconveniences and pri-
vations of the most serious description, and
which he could never have overcome, but for the
high reputation which he himself possessed as one
of the first painters of the day; a quality which has
always served him as a ready passport to the
lovers of art in all countries, which attracted the
particular notice of some of the leading officers in
the French army, and afterwards proved of the
greatest service to him in prosecuting his views.
On the arrival of Mr. Wallis at Lisbon, he
found the English in a state of the greatest con-
fusion and terror, and on the point of quitting
Portugal; but what was of serious consequence to
him at the moment, he found that the banking
house on which he had his credits had fled. On
left England for Lisbon in the month of Octo-
ber, 1807.
It has often been remarked, that “ in troubled
waters we catch the best fish.” This observation
is no doubt true; but great risk and danger often
attend the traversing of such waters in pursuing
the object in view.
That Mr. Wallis did succeed in a most surpris-
ing manner, is proved by the many capital pic-
tures which were in the course of the five follow-
ing years sent by him to this country; but in the
accomplishment of this object he had to encounter
dangers, and to suffer inconveniences and pri-
vations of the most serious description, and
which he could never have overcome, but for the
high reputation which he himself possessed as one
of the first painters of the day; a quality which has
always served him as a ready passport to the
lovers of art in all countries, which attracted the
particular notice of some of the leading officers in
the French army, and afterwards proved of the
greatest service to him in prosecuting his views.
On the arrival of Mr. Wallis at Lisbon, he
found the English in a state of the greatest con-
fusion and terror, and on the point of quitting
Portugal; but what was of serious consequence to
him at the moment, he found that the banking
house on which he had his credits had fled. On