1800. | Sixty Articles of Literargand Philofophical Inielligence. 
of a year ie 12 numbers), which con- 
tains a number of literary, economical, 
political, and literary articles. 
Much attention is likewife beftowed 
upon the phyfical education of children, in 
Spain, and on the improvement of domef- 
tic economy. Of the works relating to 
thefe important fubjects, we fhall mention 
only two, viz. the ‘* Confervador de los ni- 
nes,” which is formed after Rofenftein’s 
pian; and the * Differtation inftructive 
fobre los beneficics generales del cultivo de 
las patatas,’’ which contains ample direc- 
tions for the cultivating and ufing of pota- 
toes. Added toit are ‘* Experimentos fiu- 
gales, y faciles, publicados por el Gobierno 
Ingles fobre 70 clafes de pan; con varias 
meretas de granos, patatas, X&c.’’ Hence it 
appears, how attentive in apain too they are 
to thele fubjeéts. Undoubtedly the general 
intreduétion of the culture of potatoes 
would prove a great benefit toSpain. And 
that this treatife has been extenfively cir- 
culated in that kingdom, is proved by its 
having already pafled through three edi- 
tions. 
On medicine, and the {ciences therewith 
connected, new works continually appear. 
Of D. Diego Velafco and D. Franc. Villa- 
verde’s ** Curfo teorico practico de opera- 
cionesde cirurgia, &c.”’ a fourth improved 
edition has been publithed. —D. Patricio 
Sanche, in the third part of his ** Adver- 
tencias critico medicas,”” endeavours to 
prove that the phthifis is not infectious. 
His work, which is fold by Maffeo, has 
already paffed through two editions.—D. 
Juan Naval, phyfician to the king, has 
publifhed a treatife, founded on the newelt 
obfervations, ** De Jas enfermedades de las 
vias de la orina. 
Of the hiftorical and diplomatical works, 
the following are the moit important : 
s¢ Biblioteca nueva de los efcritores Ara- 
gonefes, que floreciéron defile o cl anno de 
1641 hafta 1680, por el Dr. D. Felix La- 
TASA y OrTIN,”’ three volumes, gio. 
The “ Biblioteca Antigua,” of the fame 
SU confifts of two Se neS. —s Sup- 
piemento a lacolleccion de pragmaticas, 
cedulas provifiones, ciicula:es, y otras 
providencias publicadas en el aétual ep as 
do del Sr. D. Carlos iV.” contains thofe of 
the year 1799» and is the fifth volume of 
the whole work. Thofe QF 1797 and 1768, 
are in the 3d andath volumes, Sold b 
Fernandez.—‘* Cartas del Dr. D. Tadro 
ANTILLON fobre la antigua “igiflacion 
municipal de las cumtnidades de Teruel Bi 
Albaracin Quaderno I. que comprehende 
una idea hiftorial y filofofica del celebre 
Fuero Turelenfe.”’ Publithed by. fhiptia. 
S49 
A modern traveiler, Le CHEVALIER, 
gives the following picture of Conftanti- 
nople, as it frikes the ficlt ¢ glance of the 
ftranger. ‘In furveying the interior of 
this city, you fee narrow dirty ftreets, il] 
laid out, and without any plan or regular 
order; mean houfes of wood, che. fart: 
flories of which projeét into the ftreer, 
which they darken while they prevent the 
free circulation of air: va& {paces of 
ground containing only the black moulc. 
ering remains of “{ome former conflagra- 
ane or a few folitary houfes which - the 
plague has untenanted, but in the mid& 
of thefe unfightly appearances you behold 
magnificent public edifices, the grandeur 
of which is ftill further heightened by the 
friking contraft with the furrounding ob- 
jects.” 
Magnetic TraGors. denen day. 
NOBLE, a Frenchman, feveral years 280, 
brought the art of contruéting artificial 
magnets to fuch perfection as, in 1777, to 
exhibit one before the Academy of Sciences, 
which fupported 105 pounds weight. He 
afterwarls applied them medicinally to 
parts affected with any nervous complaint, 
efpecially painful affe&ticns of the face and 
teeth, rheumatic pains over the body, 
ctamps, palpitations, epilepfy, &c. A 
full account of this remedy has been lately 
publifhed, under the title of «* M. Leno- 
ble’s Artificial Magnets, or a method of 
curing ones/elf of nervous diforders by the 
“application of thefe magnets, prayed he- 
fore a committee of the Society of Medi- 
_ cine at Paris, &c. &c.” 
In a late number of the Faurzal de 
Phyfique, it is mentioned that Guyton de 
Morveau has read to the National Infitute 
a memoir on the decompofition of lime 
and the fixed alkalies. His experiments 
were made conjointly with Deformes, apu- 
pil of the Polytechnic School, the conclu- 
fions from which are 
1. That pot- -afh confifts of lime and hy- 
drogen 
2. ‘That foda confifts of magnefia and hy- 
aeaken 
3. That lime confitts of carbon, azot, and 
hydrogen. 
4. That magnefia confits of lime and azot. 
As the details of the experiments are,not, 
yet publifhed, the whole reits upon ;the 
credit of the eminent chemiit to whom 
they are attributed; and which, we truss 
will foon be given to the world for the 
honour of feience and the public. adwvai- 
tage. 
An interefting work hasbeen recently 
publithed at Paris, by gencral AnDRE- 
oOssy 
