134 FETTERS FROM SPAIN. LETTER XX. ARRIVAL OF LORD WELLINGTON SANTI PONCE — ROMAN ANTIftUITIES NUNS IN THE CONVENT OF ST. LEANDRO CONVERSATION WITH THEM ANECDOTE. SEVILLE, NOV. I8O9. If I did not fear tiring you with accounts of religious rites, and religious processions, I might perhaps describe two ceremonies which have been celebrated here during the last days of October; which were deemed of sufficient importance to draw the Cardinal Bourbon from Santa Maria to this city, to assist in their celebration. The whole was really so contemptible, that excepting the Coup d’Oeil of the illuminated cathedral, nothing was worth seeing nor describing. The arrival of Lord Wellington was to me an event of much greater interest: he was received in Seville with that warmth of applause which his conduct truly merits; an applause that was felt by his countrymen as a tribute paid to England through one of the first of its military heroes. The suburb of Triana, through which his Lordship passed, the bridge, the Alameyda, and Puerto Xeres, were crouded with people, whose acclamations were answered by salutes of cannon from the batteries, and by feux de joie from the troops of the garrison.