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230 MR. BUCHANAN’S IMPORTATIONS.—spain.
made some magnificent acquisitions, and left this
via France, but all the affair was to be done in
half an hour. Mr. Coesvelt wished to give bills
to that amount, and to have them consigned out of
the country, but the business could not be finished
in that way: nothing but money would do, and
his banker being French, is now imprisoned.
“ P. S. I am to be taken, as a very great favour,
to see the Prince of Peace’s collection next week,
in which there are some of the finest pictures by
Murillo which are in Spain. This is a favour
which is difficult to obtain, there being a positive
order from the government to the contrary, until
the prices are fixed on the whole collection, and
the public advertised thereof.
“ The collections of the Duke of Alva, of Cam-
polanchi, and the Duke of Hijar, will also be sold
very soon ; and the present moment offers an op-
portunity that can never again return. Do not
therefore lose any time in sending me credits on
several Spanish houses; as all the principals of the
French houses have fled with their army, many of
the leading houses are entirely ruined, and all the
former credits furnished me through the banking
houses in London are under the present circum-
stances good for nothing; indeed, nothing is un-
derstood here at present but the peso duro”
made some magnificent acquisitions, and left this
via France, but all the affair was to be done in
half an hour. Mr. Coesvelt wished to give bills
to that amount, and to have them consigned out of
the country, but the business could not be finished
in that way: nothing but money would do, and
his banker being French, is now imprisoned.
“ P. S. I am to be taken, as a very great favour,
to see the Prince of Peace’s collection next week,
in which there are some of the finest pictures by
Murillo which are in Spain. This is a favour
which is difficult to obtain, there being a positive
order from the government to the contrary, until
the prices are fixed on the whole collection, and
the public advertised thereof.
“ The collections of the Duke of Alva, of Cam-
polanchi, and the Duke of Hijar, will also be sold
very soon ; and the present moment offers an op-
portunity that can never again return. Do not
therefore lose any time in sending me credits on
several Spanish houses; as all the principals of the
French houses have fled with their army, many of
the leading houses are entirely ruined, and all the
former credits furnished me through the banking
houses in London are under the present circum-
stances good for nothing; indeed, nothing is un-
derstood here at present but the peso duro”