| Retrofpect of Spanifh Literature.— Agriculture. 
which we are confined ; in this general 
view, ithas been impoffible for us to com- 
prife all the ‘ubjeéts that have emanated 
trom the Spanifh prefs, within the period 
of our examination: the theological, pole- 
mical, and devotional pieces are extremely 
numerous; in this clas cherefore we have 
been obliged to, exclude: from our lift a 
variety of valuable publications, but we 
hope, with this fingle exception, our Re- 
trotpect will exhibit a competent view of 
the comparative ‘attention paid by the 
Spanith literati to the {everal depart-. 
ments of {cience, 
Tt will be feen that agriculture has en- 
grofied no {mall degree ot public regard— 
that focieties for its promotion have been 
formed—thazt the modern improvements 
introduced into England have travelled to 
that luxuriant peninfula, and that the 
principles of chemittry and botany have 
been reforted to, to imcreafe the fund of 
practical knowledge. On this head a 
large field of information is opened by 
Spanifh ingenuity and experience, in the 
management of fheep, the improvement 
of wool, and the paftuvage adapted to that 
ufeful animal, which muft be acceptable 
in every region of the world. 
Ac an early period the Saracenic-fu- 
dents in medicine, refiding in Spain, were 
of the higheft celebrity in Europe: on 
their departure the fubject was neglected, 
notwithftanding its importance in. allevi- 
ating human infirmity ; but it will be 
feen in this review that it has excited a. 
great degree of recent attention—that the 
folly and danger of empyricifm has, been 
exchanged for method and {cience; and 
that the vaccine inoculation (the moft va- 
Juable difcovery of modern times,) 
has been introduced into that country, to 
diminifh the multifarious fources of human 
milery. ; . 
In the lift of theatrical compofitions the 
Englith reader will be flattered with the 
introduétion given to our favourite dra- 
matic bard; and the lover of German li- 
teratare will be gratified that the fimpli- 
city and fentiment of Kotzebue has for 
an inftant ob{cured the antics and gri- 
mace of the Spanifh Graciofo. 
If we admit that.trade is a plant which 
flourifhes moft in a fituation where it 
has the greateft room to expand—that 
all interference with trade, by laws 
and political regulations, gradually ens 
feebles and ultimately deftroys it; yet 
there will be occalions where royal patron- 
age may be extended—where royal mu- 
nificence may be applied, to give activity 
to new {prings of improvement and opu- 
lence ; and we expect this will be the ef-- 
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fe&t of the liberality of the Spanjfh mo- 
narch in the encouragement he has given 
to the lk manufaiure, under the conduct 
of the induftriows Catalan. The benefits 
of trade to any particular fate have been 
fuppofed to depend on the activity of that 
ftate, and the general fupinenefs and in- 
dolence of others: vanith for ever thofe 
views of fociety which would exhibit hap- . 
pinefs in the faturity and triumph of an 
infulated clan, and in the penury and hu- 
miliation of a proftrate world : fuch princi- 
ples are equally deceptive and atrocious ; 
nothing fo much conduces to the advan- 
tages of commerce as general indultry, 
direéted to draw forth-all the treafures of: 
each individual ftate, and the confiden- 
tial and extenfive incerchange of the abun~ 
dance with which by nature they are ref- 
pectively fupplied : the Briton will there- 
fore fee with delight in this Retrofpect, 
that the commercial fpirit is invited and 
patronized in Spain; and while his phi- 
lanthropy is pleaféd with the increate of 
felicity in a diftant country, his darling 
prejudices in favor of his own will receive 
a new fund of gratification. 
With regret we obferve, that in this 
analyfis the original compofitions are nei- 
ther the molt interefting or the moft nu- 
merous. Spain muft yet greatly depend 
on the affiftance fhe receives trom the 
more enlightened parts of Europe; but 
we notice with fatistaction the fymptoms, 
of improvement in the condefcenfion with 
which fhe has accepted the proffered aid, 
and the diicernment with which fhe has 
felected the moft valuable donatives from 
the abundant ftores of foreign erudition. 
Such are the remarks with which we tub- 
mit our Retro{peét to the public: our prin- 
cipal object has been to give a fummary 
view of literature in Spain to the natives 
of our own country, yet we hope nothing - 
we have faid will give offence to the Spa- 
nifh patriot; every fucceeding year we 
have feen fcience advance in that coun- 
try with a firm and tranquil ftep, and we 
-expect the mo beneficial effects co refult 
from her favourable reception. 
AGRICULTURE. 
<‘Tunta Publica de la’ Real Sociedad 
Economicade Amigos, del Pais de Valen- 
cia;-un tomo en 4°.-—Public Affociation 
of the Royal Giconomic Eitablithment of 
Friends, of the Difriét of Valencia, 1 vol, 
ato. It is with great pleafure we an- 
nounce the imfitution of fuch focieties in 
Spain; the uleful defion of a canal from 
Valencia to the port ot Grao is propeled 
in one of the papers. 
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