208 
The Medea, Hippolitus, Alceftes, and 
Andromache, of Euripides, printed at 
Flerence. 
Callimachus’s Hymns, 
itheut place 
-er date 3 andthe 
“© Gnomologia Poetica Greea, & Mu-- 
fzeus; editio Prince}. 
The firtt book of all, it fhould feem, 
was printed in Germany: the firf in Ita- 
ly was, Cicero de Oratore: at Rome, 
Cicero’s Letters: at Venice, Tacitus: in 
England, Rufinus: and at Paiis, Tully's 
Offices. 
In afuture letter I fha!! fend, as far as 
cen be obtained, a complete lift of the firft 
editions of the Claffics. 
Your’s, &c. TYPOGRAPHUS. 
. 
For the Mouthly Magazine. 
The PRESENT STATE Of BRUSSELS, 
(Tranflated from CAMUS.) 
RUSSELS, the principal town in 
the department of the Dyle, has not 
Joit either the folendour.or polite fom, or 
bad habits of towns, that have been the 
feats of courts and of their fhameful reti- 
nue. Its population fill amounts to 
eighty thoufand, and luxury yet reigns in 
it. I fhall not fpeak of its canals, of the 
fine walk in the park, or cf the houfes 
that furround it. 
I have not feen at Bruffels what are. 
properly called manufatories, or houfes 
with workmen under the direction of pri- 
vate perfons ; but I have feen large and 
numerous eftablifhments of humanity and 
fcience, of learned men and diftinguifhed 
artifts. 
The Houfe of Induftry, eftablifhed in 
the old convent of the Minims, is one of 
the firft inft:tutions in its kind. Ihave 
feen about three hundred perfons collected 
together here 5 in the winter their number 
is much increafed. ‘They make here all 
kinds of linen and woollen cloths and di- 
mities, but of an inferior quality. It 
muft be cwned that the fabric of fine 
ftuffs docs not fucceed well in thefe houfes. 
There is in general a great difficulty to 
get.a fale for the produce of thele houfes 
of indufry. The execution is feldom fo 
complete 4s in other manutactories, be- 
caule they employ more apprentices than 
finfhed workmen, 2nd do not feleét their 
hands, and necaufe the generality of thefe 
who are taken out of idjenefs and beggary 
have litle energy. Coarfe and common 
jtuffs have the advantage of . being fit to be 
ufed im other heufes tor the reception of 
the poor. ‘The prefect has. eftablithed 
fimilar workhoufes tn Tiriemont and Lou- 
vain 5 fo chat ne beggars ave te be met 
Prefent Staie of Bruffels. 
[April 4, 
with either in the town or the departe 
ment, * 
In conuneétion with the houfe of induf- 
try, it is natural to fpeak of the houfe of 
confinement at Vilvorde, which is a large 
houfe of indufry ; biutas I intend te com.’ 
pare this eltablifhment w.. that of the 
fame kind at Ghent, I thall defer {peaking 
of it till I come to the department of the 
Schelde. 
The hofpital called the Grand City 
Hofpital is a general one. The fick af- 
fisted with any kind of difeafe, even thofe 
from prifuns, and lying-in women, are 
received into it. Thedeclarations which 
the women deliver on admiflion are fealed. 
The fick are diftributed, under different 
ftories, into many claffes : the fick receiv- 
ed aid entertained gratuitoufly ; the fick 
who pay, fome fix fhilings, (about four 
francs,) others three plaquettes, (about 
‘ten fols ;) out-docr patients, and fick pri- 
foners. In the hofpital the diftribution is 
into the fick, the wounded, the venereal, 
the fcabby, pregnant women, lying-in 
women, new-born children, the infirm, 
the blind, the deaf and dumb. On the 
63th of Vendemiaire, in the XIth year, 
the day on which T vifited the hofpitals, 
the number of in-patients amounted to 
two hundred and feventy, and the out- 
patients were twenty-nine ; but fometimes 
the number of the laft is very great. On 
the firft of Vendemiaire the total of the 
fick was three hundred and thirty-five. 
The hofpital in general is in a goad ftate, 
enly the hall where the female prifoners 
are collected together is too fmall. 
I have found in many other hofpitals 
through Flanders the fame cuftom of re- 
ceiving the fick on their paying for it. 
The fum paid is regulated by the nature 
of the chambers and of the beds, and the 
difference between thofe which hold one 
only or many beds. 
The {mali hofpital, or that of St. John, 
accommodates about one hundred and 
* This happy circumftance is the confe- 
quence of the eftablifhment of houfes of in- 
aufiry, and of the wife regulations of the 
prefect of the Dyle, of which [ can give 
neither copy ner exiraéts. I can only point 
out the title of the colleétion in which they 
may be found, with the text of the rules, 
and an exact account of their praétice for 
every three months :——** A Colleétion of the 
Adminifirative Pieces on the Eftablifhments. 
of Afylumsand Houfes of Induftry opened in 
Brufleis, Vilvorde, Tirlemont, and Louvain, 
for the Extermination of Beggary.” Third 
édition, Bruflels, Weiflenbruck, in the Xth 
year, fy 
fitty 
