1800.] ~ 
dered as the chiefs of the nation. In the 
vicinity of the fepulchre of a deceafed Ma- 
rabut, or faint, generally is the habitation 
of the Marabut of the tribe, who gives by 
means of a flag hoifted on a pole erected 
upon the edifice the ufual fignal when the 
time of prayer arrives. _ From the fame 
place fignals are made, on the approach 
ef an enemy, to the Cabyles, to aflemble 
them at the appointed place of rendezvous. 
The language of the Cabyles, like that of 
the Moors, is a dialect of the Arabic. It 
deviates, however, fo much from the Jat- 
ter, that in many places Moors and Ca- 
byles are not able to underftand one ano- 
ther. 
(To be concluded im our next.) 
ete 
For the Monthly Magaxine. 
STATISTICAL PARTICULARS relative to 
PORTUGAL. 
N the Voyage du ct-devant Duc du 
I Chatelet en Portugal; publifhed with 
additions and correStions, by F. Fr. Bour- 
going, Paris, an 6 de la Rep. ; and which 
might be more juftly entitled 4 Stati/- 
tical Account of Pertugal; the following 
ftatement of the population of that king- 
dom is given: Extre Duero e Minho 50400 5 
Traz los Mowtes 156000; Beira 560000 ; 
Efiremadura 660000 ; Alentejo 280000; Al- 
garve 6500003 altogether 2,225,000 inha- 
bitants. The Portuguefe fettlements in Afia 
contain 50,oco fouls;. thofe in Africa 
80,000; Brazil4.30,000: Madeira and Porto 
Santo 130,000 3 the Azore Iflands, 80,000; 
Cape Verde Iflands, 16,000; the Iflands 
in the Sea of Guinea, 3000. The number 
of inhabitants in all thefe colonies and fo- 
reign poffeffions then is- 799,000 ; and 
confequently the fur total of all the fub- 
jects of the king of Portugal 3,024,000. 
This kingdom, according to the ftate- 
ments of the Portuguefe, is 150 Portu- 
guefe miles in length, and qo in breadth. 
According to Bufching its length is no 
more than 75, and the breadth 35 common 
German miles. The whole fuperficial 
contents amount, according to the beft 
maps of the country, to 1875 geographical 
miles: fo that there are only on an aver- 
age 1190 inhabitants to every fquare mile. 
This low degree of population is partly 
owing to the licentious manners of the 
people, partly to the difproportionate num- 
ber of the clergy and religious of both 
fexes, of whom. there are faid to be 
200,000. The population of Lifbon is 
by Bulching eftimated at 150,000. Our 
author makes it only 100,000. ‘The 
number of inhabitants of the other cities 
of the kingdom he gives as follows: Co- 
Statiftical Particulars relative to Portugaé 
439 
imbra 12,000; Oporto 50,000; Setubal 
from 11 to 12,000; the diftrict of Setubal, 
including the city, 20,000. 
All the provinces of Portugal are not 
equally fruitful. Oranges, which Eftre- 
madura, Alentejo and Algarve produce 
in great abundance, and of an excellent 
yuality, are wholly wanting in the other 
provinces. On the other hand, Entre Du- 
ero e Minho diltinguifhes itfelf by its well. 
conducted agriculture. Traz los Montes 
is almoft wholly barren, and cultivated 
only on the banks of the rivers. Beira 
produces all the neceffaries of life: the 
fea that wathes its fhores abounds with . 
fith ; its paltures feed numerous herds of 
cattle; and it likewife furnifhes honey and 
falt. Eftremadura is not lefs favoured by 
nature: its wines are excellenc. In Alen- 
tejo rice 1s produced. Algarve, too, is 
well cultivated. Portugal would be more 
produétive, and the ftate of agriculture 
more flourifhing, if the Englifh had not 
got poffeffion of the corn-trade. 
The land-forces of Portugal confit of 
29 regiments of infantry, and 10 regiments 
of cavalry ; conftituting altogether a mi- 
litary eftablifhment of 30,000 men, under 
the command of 104 colonels, 150 majors, 
42 generals, a field-marfhall, a general of 
cavalry, a general of artillery, 3 infpectors- 
general, 8 lieutenant-generals, and 28 
major-generals. Or the wretched ftate 
into which the army has here funken, 
many flriking proofs occur; the truth of 
which cannot well be doubted, as thefe 
facts are every where afferted, and no 
where contradicted. The Portuguefe navy 
confifis of 13 fhips cf the line, and 15 frie 
gates. The trading-veflels amount te 
{carcely 100. 
The public revenue of Portugal ts, ac- 
cording to fome, 76, according to others 
80, millions of French livres: and the 
debts of the ftate had, in the time of our 
traveller, already rifen to the fum of rs 
millions of cruzados.. The chief branch 
of the king’s revenue is that drawn from 
the American mines; the yearly produce 
of which is eftimated at from 50 to 60 
millions, of which however a {mall propor- 
tion only comes into the royal exchequer. 
The trade of Portugal is, it is wel! known, 
entirely in the hands of the Englith. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
“SIR, 
i oe the progrefs of fome readings rela- 
¥ tive to the origin of modern Upita- 
rianifm, my attention was much detained .- 
on the life of Michael Serveto, the Arra. 
gonjan, who appears to have derived his 
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