1800.] Account of News-papers in 
and during the miniftry of Don Ur- 
quijo, the reftri€tions have been lefs fe- 
verely enforced, efpecially with refpect to 
French news :—thus, a ftatement relative 
to Napper Tandy in the paper of the 16th 
of December 1799 would hardly have 
been admitted into it before that. period. 
Articles from Spanifh America are not very 
frequently to be found in the Gazeta de 
Madrid; and thofe that are inferted are 
generally founded on the uncertain re- 
ports brought over bythe mafters of fhips, 
During the continuance of hoftilities be- 
twixt the French and Spanifh armies in the 
Pyrenees, this gazette furnifhed to foreign 
news-readers and journalifts a confider- 
able fund of entertainment and intelligence 
efpecting the progrefs of the war, which 
was employed in particular by the Englith 
ews-writers, 
Whenever politics give an opportunity 
for the introduétion of religious refle&tions, 
it is carefully laid hold of by the editors 
of the Gazette: and in an efpecial man- 
ner are they fond of recording accounts 
of converfions. ‘Thus in the paper of the 
Sth of December, 1788, they found 
means to introduce a defcription of ex- 
treme unttion; and the notification of 
the martyrdom of Pope Pius VI. was ac- 
companied by a well-written biography of 
that ill-treated venerable old man. 
Scientific articles or notices often fill 
up the gaps occafioned by erafures of the 
licenfers; and that in fuch a manner as 
to prove interefting and inftructive even 
to foreigners. ‘Thefe notices are fome- 
times derived from government ; except 
the ftatements of cures and chirurgical 
operations. ‘The fet for the year 1792 
contains important ftatiftical accounts of 
Cavanilles; that for 1796 extraéts from 
Malespina’s Travels; and the newelt, 
much interefting matter relative to the 
{ciences of navigation, the progrefs of 
aftronomy and phyfics in Paris, and bo- 
tanical and mineralogical intelligence and 
effays. In the papers for the 15th and 
22d of April 1800, the Memorias del 
Typo Saib, and the new Hiftoria General 
del Peru are reviewed. In almoft every 
number we likewife find notices of new 
mufical works, and Contra-danzas, or 
Minuets a fandangado, as \ikewile adver- 
tifements relative to the common affairs of 
life. 
This news-paper, notwithftanding its 
political fterility, fatisfies almoit all 
Spain, and is read with the greateit 
avidity in all the cities of the kingdom, 
efpecially in time of war. Several thou- 
fand copies of it are printed, and the pro- 
Spain and Spanifh America. 42 
fits arifing from the fale of it ferve to fup- 
port the Imprenuta Real. .In Madrid it is 
with the moft pompous-founding expref- 
fions offered for fale, or to be lent to read. 
Gazeta! Gazeta nova! la tengo—frefb 
from the prefs as drinking water from the 
Jountain! exclaim the news-hawkers. 
The fecond news-paper of Spain is the 
Gazeta de Barcelona, fimilar to the other 
in fize and ‘contents, but printing and 
paper are worfe. ‘The induitrious Cata- 
lonians became tired of fending their 
money to Madrid both for the Court-Calen- 
dar and the Gazette; and therefore encou- 
raged the printing of fimilar publications 
in their own province. ‘The Barcelona 
Gazeta, however, with the exception of 
fome French news received by fea or by 
the way of Perpignan, frequently copies 
word for word_from that of Madrid. Itis 
printed Coz licencia y privilegio, en la 
oficina de Fuan Francifco Piferra Imprefor 
de S. R. M. and appears twice a-week. 
Of the articles of foreign intelligence, the 
moft copious are thofe from London, 
Genoa, and Paris, on account ot the com- 
mercial intercourfe with thefe cities; and 
accounts of news from the capital are 
fometimes more circumftantial even than 
in the Gazeta de Madrid. Provincial oc- 
currences, and advertifements of books, 
&c. fill one-third of the whole. The cir- 
culation of the Barcelona Gazette does 
not extend beyond Catalonia, except tothe 
iflands of Majorca, Minorca, and Yvica, 
where the lownefs of the price and the 
nearnefs of the place where it is publithed 
caufe it to be preferred to the Madrid Ga- 
Zette. 
s\n attempt was once made to eftablifh 
a political news-paper in Valencia; and 
it would have fucceeded, had not the Go- 
vernment interfered to fupprefs it. In 
that city, as likewife in Madrid, Barcel- 
Jona, and other large towns and fea-ports, 
Diarvios (Intelligencers or Advertifers) are 
publifhed, in which, befides the ufual ar- 
ticles of intelligence, mifcellaneous eflays, 
&c. on fubjeéts of general utility are in- 
ferted, 
Two much-efteemed Commercial Papers 
are likewife publifhed in Spain; at Madrid, 
fince 1792, the Correo Mercantil de Efpanna 
y de fur Indias (two fheets a-week, colts 
three piafters two reals) ; and the Correa 
de Gadiz, one fheet daily. Thefe papers 
fometimes admit fuch political news as 
have a referenceto commerce, and contain 
many ufeful treatifes, ftatements, and 
contributions towards the hiftory of the 
commerce of Spain and her colonies. Since 
the month of November, 1796, there ap- 
qh ai pears 
