NEWS-PAPER. 
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The fet for the year 179a contains important ftatiftical 
-accounts of Cavanilles; that for 1796 extrafts from Ma- 
lefpina’s Travels ; and the neweft, much interefting mat¬ 
ter relative to the fcience of navigation, the progrefs of 
aftronomy and phyfics in Paris, and botanical and mine- 
ralogical intelligence and effays. In the papers for the 
15th and 2zd of April, 1800, the Memorias del Typo Stub 
and the new Hifloria General del Peru are reviewed. In 
almoft every number we likewife find notices of new mu- 
fical works ; as likewife advertifements relative to the 
common affairs of life. 
This news-paper, notwithftanding its political fterility, 
fatisfies almoft all Spain, and is read with the greateft avi¬ 
dity in all the cities of the kingdom, eipecially in time of 
war. Several thoufand copies of it are printed, and the 
profits arifing from the fale of it ferve to fupport the 
Imprenta Ileal. In Madrid it is with the moll pompous- 
founding exprefiions offered for fale, or to be-lent to read : 
“ Gazeta! Gazeta nova ! la tengo; frelh from the prel's as 
water from the fountain !” exclaim the news-hawkers. 
The fecond news-paper of Spain is the Gazeta de Barce¬ 
lona, fimilar to the other in fize and contents, but the print¬ 
ing and paper are worfe. The induftrious Catalonians be¬ 
came tired of lending their money to Madrid for the 
Court-Calendar and the Gazette; and tlierefore encou¬ 
raged the printing of limilar publications in their own 
province. The Barcelona Gazette, however, with the 
exception of fome French news received by lea or by the 
way of Perpignan, frequently copies word for word from 
that of Madrid. It is printed Con licencia y privilegio, 
and appears twice a-week. Of the articles of foreign 
intelligence, the molt copious are thofe from London, 
Genoa, and Paris, on account of the commercial inter- 
courfe with thefe cities: and accounts of news from the 
capital are fotnetimes more circumffantial even than in 
the Gazeta de Madrid. Provincial occurrences, and ad¬ 
vertifements of books, &c. fill one third of the whole. 
The circulation of the Barcelona Gazeite does not extend 
beyond Catalonia, except to the iflands of Majorca, Mi¬ 
norca, and Yvica, where the lownefs of the price, arid 
the nearnefs of the place where it is publifhed, caufe if to 
be preferred to the Madrid Gazette. 
An attempt was once made to effablifha political news¬ 
paper in Valencia ; and it would have fucceedecl, had not 
the government interfered to fupprefs it. In that city, 
as likewife in Madrid, Barcelona, and other large towns 
and fea-ports, Diarios (Intelligencers or Advertiiers) are 
publifhed, in which, befides the ufual articles of intelli¬ 
gence, mifcellaneous effays. See. on fubjects of general 
titility, are inferted. 
Two much-efteemed commercial papers are likewife 
publifhed in Spain: at Madrid, iince 1792, the Correa 
Mercantil de Ejpannay de far Indian (two fheets a-week, 
coffs three piaftres two reals) ; and the Correo de Cadiz, 
one fheet daily. T'liefe papers fometimes admit fuch po¬ 
litical news as have a reference to commerce ; and contain 
many ufieful treatifes, ftatements, and contributions to¬ 
wards the hiftory of the commerce of Spain and her colo¬ 
nies. Since the month of November, 1796, there appears 
at Madrid a weekly agricultural paper, entitled Seminario 
de Agricultura. 
To Spanifh America, the Havannah, Buenos-Ayres, 
and thence to the Philippine Iflands, many copies of the 
Madrid Gazette are lent by the monthly packet-boats. But 
the Spanifh news-papers are very rarely read out of the 
dominions of Spain. To the king’s ambafi'adors and 
refidents in foreign countries, the office for foreign affairs 
Lends the Gazeta de Madrid free of expenfe: but to make 
the poffage lefs, they cut out the political articles which 
do not relate to Spain. 
As to the circulation of foreign newfpapers in Spain ; 
the French Journals have been wholly prohibited by the 
Koly Inquifition fince the 14th of December 1789 : the 
editor of the Muniteur hefitated not to infert in his paper 
cf the 2d of January, 1790, this decree of condemnation 
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againft himfelf. Though this prohibition remained in 
force notwithftanding the peace and treaty of alliance 
afterwards concluded ; yet the Parifian news-papers are 
•carried in abundance acrofs the Pyrenees, efpecially into 
Bilboa. Many copies of the Gazette de Liede, and the 
Florence Gazette, are likewife brought into the Spanifh 
fea-ports; the latter chiefly for thofe who are unacquainted 
with the French language. In Auguft 1814, the circu¬ 
lation of Englifh news-papers was prohibited in Spain, on 
pain of ten years’ imprifonment. This was about the time 
of the re-eftablifhing of the Inquifition ; one reafon given 
for which was, that the late refidence of heretics (the 
Britifh troops) had greatly injured the caufe of the true 
religion, and had inclined the people to herefy. 
As for the Spanilh dominions out of Europe, political 
newfpapers are publiihed at Mexico and Santa-Fe. The 
Gazeta de Mexico appears twice a-week, one fheet in 4to. 
almoft like that of Madrid, but printed on better paper. 
It contains all the new royal edifts (Cordale), and of po¬ 
litical and commercial intelligence whateverrelates to tire 
country. The Gazeta de Santa-Fe -is pretty fimilar as to 
its contents to that of Mexico. Both furnifh much im¬ 
portant intelligence towards enlarging our ftatifticai 
knowledge of Spanifh America. The viceroys, however, 
have not favoured or promoted this branch of literature. 
When in 1795 a Spanifh abbate endeavoured at Lima to 
eftablifli a third Gazeta for Spanifh America ; fuch obfta- 
cles were thrown in his way, that after a trial of one year 
the undertaking was given up. 
The total number of journals and news-papers atprefent 
publifhed in RufTia is 33. Thefe are : 
In St. Peterfburg. 1. The St. Peterfburg, or, as it is called 
abroad, the Court Gazette, publifhed by the Academy 
of Sciences. 2. The fame in German. 3. The Journal 
relative to the Progrefs of Science among the People, 
publifhed ever fince 1803 by the Supreme School Direc¬ 
tory, in the Ruffian language. 4. The Technological 
Journal, publifhed in quarto numbers by the Academy of 
Sciences iince 1804. 5. The Northern Poft, or New St. 
Peterfburg Gazette, in Ruffian, publifhed by the Miniftry 
of the Interior. 6. The Gazette of the Senate of St. Pe¬ 
terfburg. 7. The fame in German. 8. The General 
Journal of Medicine, publifhed by the Medico-chirurgi- 
cal Academy, in Ruffian, in monthly numbers, 9. The 
Son of the Country (Syn Otetfcheftwa,) an hiltorical, 
political, and literaty, journal, publifhed in the Ruffian 
language fince Oft. 1812, under the higheft patronage, by 
M. von Gretfch, fecretary to the the Committee of Cen- 
forfhip, and head mailer of the Gymnafium of St. Peterf¬ 
burg. It appears in weekly numbers, on Thurfdays; and 
two l'upplements, containing the lateft political intelli¬ 
gence, are publifhed on the poll-days. The editor pays 
out of the profits of this journal 3000 rubles per annum 
towards the fupport of thofe orphans, whofe fathers fell 
during the campaigns of i8i2.and 1813. 10. The Patriot, 
an hiftorico-political newfpaper, publiihed fince Nov. 1812, 
in German, by Schroder, the bookleller. n. Le Con- 
fervateur impartial, apolitical paper, in French, publifhed 
fince Jan. 1813 by the miniftry for foreign affairs, appears 
in half and whole fheets twice a-week. 12 and 13. The 
Ruffian Invalid, in Ruffian and German, a political paper, 
publifhed fince Feb. 1813, by the chevalier Pomian Pela- 
rovius, collegiate counlellor and member of the college 
of juftice. The profits of this paper are appropriated to 
the fupport of invalid foldiers and poor foldiers’ widow's. 
Though the receipts in 1812 exceeded 30,000 rubles, yet, 
after the deduftion of printing and other expenfes, no 
more than 799 rubles remained for the invalids : but this 
fum was fo augmented by voluntary contributions, that 
the editor has placed 150,000 rubles at intereft in the bank, 
and allows penfions to upwards of icoo invalids and fol¬ 
diers’ widows. Every true patriot wifhes the beft fuccefs 
to this benevolent undertaking. The contents of this 
journal, however, are little more than a copy of the Ber¬ 
lin papers, lbmetimes with remarks by the editor. 
