512 Literary and Misedlaneous tnteWgence. [July I, 



nal of tlie Sciences," eeliled by ]\Tr. slaves, tlie greater pai I of (Iiom heloiig- 



Silliman, who makes it an invariable ing lo tlie trailing c\{\fs on tlie two 



rnio to refer to the particular journal coasts Acapnlco and Yeta Cruz. In 



from which an article is extracted, and Mexico, as in all other Spanish posses- 



often mentions with praise La Revue sions, they are somewhat more under 



Enn/clopcdiquc, La Bibliotheque Uni- the protection of the laws than the nc- 



verselle, Les Annates des C/tunie, &c. 

 which f^iHnish him with abundant mate- 

 rials. The productions of the mind 

 constitute a species of property which 

 deserves to be respected ; and it is both 



;roes of tlie other Europcnn colonies; 

 these laws are always interpreted in 

 favour of liberty : the government wishes 

 to see the number of freemen increased. 

 A slave, who by his industry has pro- 



jiist and useful to preserve to every one cured a little money, may compel his 

 that portion of his esteem which is due Mexican master to give him his liberty, 



to him, for his conceptions, his research, 

 and Lis labours.* 



ITALY. 



Among other discoveries of a very 

 recent description, which present the 

 licautiful forms of antiquity in their 

 biiliiant and vivid varieties, the anli- 

 c(ii;irian enjoys the jdeasure of contem- 

 plating the first milliary column placed 

 the centre of the Roman empire. 



on pacing the moderate sum of sixty or 

 eighty pounds. Liberty cannot be re- 

 fused to a negro on the pretext that he 

 cost triple that sum, or that he possesses 

 a peculiar talent for some lucrative em- 

 ployment. A slave who has been cruelly 

 treated, acfjuires, on that account, his 

 freedom by the law, if the judge do jus- 

 tice in the cause of the oppressed ; but 

 it may easily be conceived that this be- 



long sought for, and now only brought neficentlaw is frequently evaded. 



lo light. This was found in the exea- 

 Tations for exploring the site of the 

 ancient Forum, conducted by the Abbe 

 C. Fea. The Abbe holds out hopes of 

 entirely clearing the Forum. Should 

 tliis be accomplished, the learned will 

 hail the discoverer as with a kind of 

 apotheosis; and Fame will doubtless 

 adorn bis head with a garland of glory. 

 The Catalogue of Plants, in the royal 

 garden of Beccadifaica, near Palermo, 

 contains 3000 species, mostly exotics. 

 The climate of Sicily, wherein the tlier- 

 mometer of Reaumur is commonly, in 

 the winter, between eight and ten de- 

 grees above zero, is very favourable to 

 the rearing of plants from hot countries. 

 M. GussoNi, a celebrated botanist, 

 author of this Catalogue, lately published 

 at Naples, is preparing for the press a 

 Sicilian Flora, 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



The Alintof Mexico was established 

 in 1535, in the same building, attached 

 to the palace of the viceroy, which it 

 still occupied at the time Baron Hum- 

 boldt visited the eity of Mexico, in 

 1803-4. In loss than three centuries, 

 dollars to the astonishing amount of 

 more than 416,000,000/. sterling, had 

 issued from this building, which the 

 Raron found to give employ to 350 or 

 400 workmen; it contained ten rolling- 

 mills moved by sixty mules, fifly-two 

 cuHers, nine adjusting tables, twenty 

 milling machines, and twenty stamping 

 or coining presses: each of the latter 

 capable in ten hours of striking 15,000 

 dollars; and the whole establishment 

 capable of converting 6 to 8000 lbs. of 

 silver into coin daily. 



EAST INDIES. 



It appears from the C'alcntta jonrnaliP, 

 lliat the celebrated Brahmin Mono- 



The evils of slavery appear (observes theisi, Rammohun Roy, published in 



the Baron de Humboldt,) to be little 

 known in Mexico: in all that vast region 

 there were in 1793 only 9 or 10,000 



* The preceding notice Is worthy of 

 tlie Eevue Encyclopedique. Onr readers 

 will do us the justice to vindicate us, for 

 they must be sensible of onr frequent re- 

 ference to that most excellent assemblage 

 of materials, — the only foreign work, in 

 ffiitli, which competes with our own Ma- 

 gazine. — The truth is this, we employ 

 different translators, who translate from 

 various works ; and it is not alwajs in our 

 power lo control the refeienct to the 

 eiiginals. 



1822 a Treatise in the English language, 

 proving the legal right ot an Hindoo 

 widow to a share with the children in 

 succeeding to the husband's property. 

 'I'his right being well est^djlished by 

 ancie^it texts from the Sanscrit, it fol- 

 lows — that the perpetual gniirdianship of 

 Indian women forms no bar to their 

 rights of property ; and, also, that 

 Hindoo women are under no legal 

 obligation to be burned on the funeral 

 pile of their husbands, although several 

 books, deemed of divine inspiration, re- 

 commend the action as lioiiomablc and 

 luerituiious. 



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