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taincd 1372 paintings, landscapes, 
portraits, &c.; 158 statues, bas-reliefs, 
&c.; 171 engravings and designs; 14 
plans and models. 
SPAIN. 
An Atheneum was established at 
Madrid in 1820, to augment the mass 
of knowledge. Two sittings are held 
weekly, and a reading-room is kept 
open from morning until evening, fur- 
nished with journals. ‘The principal 
_ subjects which have occupied the in- 
stitution are,—Ist. Tithes, of which 
they have been inquiring into the ori- 
gin, and to discover the pretended di- 
vine right which those who possess 
them claim. 2dly. The seignorial 
rights. 3dly. The right of interpret- 
ing the laws. 4thly. The actual state 
of America. 45thly. The colonial sys- 
tem. 6thly. The public debt. 7thly. 
The Penal Code.—Professorships had 
been established for the French, Ger- 
man, and English languages; natural 
Jaw ; mathematics ; political economy ; 
history ; stenography; constitutional 
law; Greek; physiology as applied to 
morals ; physics. 
GREECE. 
The seat of government has provi- 
sionally been fixed at Corinth, but 
Athens is to be the capital of Greece. 
The national arms are a figure of Mi- 
nerva, with the attributes of wisdom. 
‘he flag is blue.and white, united by 
across, and the treek religion is that 
of the state, all other religions being 
tolerated and protected. Citizens must 
be Greek by birth, and members of a 
Medical Report. 
[Sept. 1, 
Christian community. Strangers may 
be naturalized, but they must. profess 
Christianity. The laws are those of 
the Greek emperors; but the military 
and commercial code of Napoleon has 
been proclaimed as part of the laws of 
the state. The name of the King of 
Franccis placed atthe headof the Chris- 
tian monarchs, in consequence of the 
protection the French consul at Patras 
afforded to the Greeks in 1821. 
Schools, libraries, and museums, are 
already proposed to be established, 
and civilization and liberty will, it is 
hoped, once more flourish in their na- 
tive country. 
EAST INDIES. 
The Bombay papers contain a no- 
tice of anew weekly paper, to be pub- 
lished in the Bengalee language, 
being the first attempt of the kind, and 
itis to be edited by a learned Hindoo, 
In the first and second numbers were 
articles on the liberty of the native 
press, and on trial by jury; and they 
had been purchased with so much 
avidity, that both were out of print, 
It appears under the title of Sung- 
baud, Cowmuddy, or the Moon of In- 
telligence. 
SOUTH AMERICA. ; 
The Cordilleras have not lost the 
destructive power ascribed to them 
by early travellers. A Dr. John Nicol 
and Mr. Black lately crossed them 
from Mendoza to St. Jago, when a 
lady perished, and nine of the natives 
lost their sight, from the intensity of 
the reflection from the snow. 
MEDICAL REPORT. 
Rerort of Diseases and CasvattieEs occurring inthe public and private Practice 
of the Physician who has the care of the Western Distict of the City Dispensary. 
——— 
POEs suicide necessarily suppose in- 
sanity? In early times, when super- 
stition gave the law in those cases which 
are now transferred to the tribunals of 
science, every marked occurrence of 
mental abberration was thought to be an 
immediate visitation from Heaven; and 
even Hippocrates, the physician of nature 
and good sense, refers to a class of dis- 
eases under the name of Attoniéi, such 
designation implying that the affections 
alluded to were both, as to cause and 
cure, different from the substantial and 
physical ills that flesh is heir to. We are 
now, perhaps, running into the other ex- 
treme, and, if the antients construed a 
mere excitation of the brain into a spiritual 
disorder, we are, some of us, in the present 
day, disposed to the equally unphilosophical, 
and to form quite as dangerous an inference 
that vice and virtue are merely physical 
results from a constitutional arrangement 
of organic particles; and that absolute 
crime is nothing but a more or less hurried 
circulation of the blood. 
Dr. Darwin presents to his readers the 
following case when treating of tedium 
vite as one of the kinds or grades, 
of lunacy. “ Mr. » @ gentleman, 
about fifty, of polished manners, who in a 
few months afterwards destroyed himself, 
said to me one day, ‘a ride out in the 
morning, and a warm parlour, and a pack 
of cards in the afternoon, are all that life 
affords. He was persuaded to have an 
issue on the top of his head, as he com- 
plained of a dull head-ach, which being 
unskilfully managed, destroyed the peri- 
“cranium 
