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the warrior, and the monarch, received their education ; and 

 thence issued the faint hght which was progressively diffused 

 among the rest of the social body. We should never have 

 ceased to depend on cenobitical instrudlion, if the surprizing 

 and most useful invention of the press had not generalized the 

 ideas of literature, facilitating at the same time both its study 

 and acquisition. The press associated the talents of the whole 

 world ; and by its means the meditations of the swarthy 

 Lydian were transmitted to the remote inhabitants of the 

 British isles. 



Among the different objedls which have occupied the press, 

 no one has been more useful than that of periodical papers, 

 the adoption of which has established, in a certain degree, 

 the epoch of the intelle6tual acquirements of nations. London 

 alone maintains an infinite number of flying sheets, which ap- 

 pear daily, to record domestic and national transa6lions, 

 foreign intelligences, and the physical and moral results drawn 

 by certain sages, who examine man in the wide extent of his 

 complicated relations. Spain, France, Germany, Italy, &c. 

 have, as it were, endeavoured to surpass each other in the 

 produ6tion of similar works. We shall now see the progress 

 which has been made in this way, in South America. 



The city of Mexico has been sufficiently prosperous to sup- 

 port a gazette, a civil diary, and another of natural history. 

 In Lima, the first periodical work which made its appearance, 

 was the Diario Economico (Economical Diary), the produc- 

 tion of Don Jayme Bausate, whose plan was chiefly confined 

 to the intelligence of the moment, and the more important 

 events which took place in the country. The date of its ear- 

 liest publication is not mentioned ; but it was soon followed 



by 



