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66 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF
" comparison in Spain,whom notto admire is trea-
“ son against state, and whose worship is become
" canonical, a part almost of the orthodox idola-
" try of their religion: Mengs is the critic who,
" professedly treating of the collection ofpidtures
“ in the palace at Madrid, can afford no com-
" mendation or description of Rubens' capi-
" tal picture of the Adoration, and records
“ his name apparently with no other view but
" to make a needless sacrifice of it to that of Ti-
'' tian, whom it seems he had had the teme-
" rity to copy."
Mr. Cumberland terminates his great pictorial
work in a political acumen. Aster having la-
mented the misfortunes ofSpain, under the Car-
thagenians, Romans, Barbarians, Moors, and the
unhappy discovery of the new hemisphere, he
finds it yet " respe&able in its misfoi nines, and
" formidable though in decay, but the last
“ hand that was put to her ruin held the pen
" which signed away her reputation and inde-
" pendence in the family compact; generous,
" unsuspe&ing, and impolitic, the has bound
" herself to an ally, whose union like the action
" of certain chemical mixtures, will dissolve
“ every noble particle in her composition and
"leave her spiritless and vapid. France and
" Spain of recent equality and emulation, can
" never find reciprocal advantages in political
" alliance, the interests of the weaker party
" mud of necessity become a sacrifice to those
" of the stronger and more artful, and with which
" of the two that superiority actually lies, and
" comparison in Spain,whom notto admire is trea-
“ son against state, and whose worship is become
" canonical, a part almost of the orthodox idola-
" try of their religion: Mengs is the critic who,
" professedly treating of the collection ofpidtures
“ in the palace at Madrid, can afford no com-
" mendation or description of Rubens' capi-
" tal picture of the Adoration, and records
“ his name apparently with no other view but
" to make a needless sacrifice of it to that of Ti-
'' tian, whom it seems he had had the teme-
" rity to copy."
Mr. Cumberland terminates his great pictorial
work in a political acumen. Aster having la-
mented the misfortunes ofSpain, under the Car-
thagenians, Romans, Barbarians, Moors, and the
unhappy discovery of the new hemisphere, he
finds it yet " respe&able in its misfoi nines, and
" formidable though in decay, but the last
“ hand that was put to her ruin held the pen
" which signed away her reputation and inde-
" pendence in the family compact; generous,
" unsuspe&ing, and impolitic, the has bound
" herself to an ally, whose union like the action
" of certain chemical mixtures, will dissolve
“ every noble particle in her composition and
"leave her spiritless and vapid. France and
" Spain of recent equality and emulation, can
" never find reciprocal advantages in political
" alliance, the interests of the weaker party
" mud of necessity become a sacrifice to those
" of the stronger and more artful, and with which
" of the two that superiority actually lies, and