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but-trees, which contribute! of the inhabitants. le this country, also, the women bike their share of labour eith the mete etuJ euitivate and vrater ;he fields. The fisheries of Wee; are sell more enusiderahle than those Gallieie. With tke exception of Catslonia, com merce is ao where so brisk as here, ead . the Amy remit trade is more iridebeel to this province than to any of the other, The liiszayan braves cvo-*Y danger, and submits to any labour, from which he has the prisspect of dens mg ailrentage. la conse quence of the industry of the ialtabitantr, and the greet popuhstion of this previtice, not au inch of ground isisegleeted ; the • highest summits a the neouuteiia being cultivated like gardens. The earth is not permitted to have any repose, and it yield* a profit of (rem 25 to 40 per cent. The sci ence of agrieCtivre is so t ;eneially understood by the cauutry peop!e, that the Royal Society of Biscay Ag a eau scairsely .levise nay new plan for its improve 111,71abet. 'J'his Society owes its eseiblishment prii.- erpally to the zeal, talents, and patriotism of the Count of Prima Floride. It publishes its tram-- actions anima:lr. in whwh it 'mikes keown every thing pew that has mipeered iu Eurepe respecting egrieuhare cud hosbruiry. The inhabitants of Arnie:on and 'lVsvaire avnil th.Aast ives to the utmost of the rich gifts of nature. There two kingdoms erhibit to the travelkr .taking variety of yeller! and plains, and they are at the sitme time watered by rivers. The beaks of the latter pee i wiit a con linciatiou or gardens. sleek produce ire Listniiishing qoantity of choice holt. lief crops have receutly been increased by the : eastroct ion of a tew caret!: 'fhivinagniticent undertektme isetnewileee at Tu dela, on the Decent Naysret, and was to have been. crest inued to Fluerta de r.isa. below Sartage, where that river lit:tames naivieshle, a distance of Its.. triglieh miles; bet it. hies only been completed to about a leave helm" tearaeurtea. The expense incurred by this work way very greet ; the canal being &inducted. for a spoor of 710 fathoms. over the )elou, a nerigeble titer, two high muds, and I.e otlwr enrols, fit; the purposes of irrigation. In finite paint were required to cut through the moult cries of Guitar and •Frit ells*. Illetaeles ut every kind eippo.ed the undertaking ; here a rock. as bard as adansaht. and there a ' , crews soil. which imbibed the water. Ineamulete tr. it is, it canent be denied that the work reSects the highest hotioir on Spautab industry and magnificence, said its utility has Few attested by the experience of iu years. In 17t04 it yielded about two millions of reale, and the claims or the adjoining estates has been raised iii the surprising degree of fifty to one. In oar: of Arm ;on. mulberry-trees are now cul tivated with great success. Hemp mid maize are considerable articles of trade tOr both kittgdoms, end the hill* preilitee atmodance of exquisite Those of nerelta, Taytele, t'ariemite, ad in Navarre, and others, are viell easy.. nsor all Eu rope, mid large quantities of them are exported. Oil is another nearer of wen'th for this province. T! .! various eyecup:dimes of agriculture employ a great number of fiends, bat hot eodent with this, the natives cross the Pr, cores to must their oriel,- bears in the south of era-ice. In both kingdoms., eatnerous herds of table are kept, and wi-eden and utuer cloths are menufactured. 'file principal productions are silk, nil, corn. woo!, hemp amid. waffroie which is cultivated in tlerty-six different dietnets. The country also tibia alum, emir, vitriol, jasper, marble. kart. mid particularly iron. in the greatest uhundaner. So &Bina are the esterior provinces of Spain flow the descriptions that have been given of them by some writers! Wa now proceed to the 'turner, and thous lm it is snore thinly peopled, and worse cultivated, theie,h its wee!th is more unequally divide!, yet a erosible radii will seek and examilie the COMICS ° Defore lie proisounces airy %metes on the subject. Oue of the principal cons-e of the inmerfeet cal tivatton of the emintry, ia the extetornevre num- Iller of *hee l ' ' , shifts are there kept. if the wool tnat is so highly esteemed is distributed lean the centre of Spain over all Eurype, the e too must be the pasture that feeds the Sheep whit h furnish this wool. It is impossible to judge from the evesiimp ticia ef ea year, of the extent of reentry required for sheep -wells% ; for every proprietor is oleh A ed, for fear of accidents. to keep a doable stork,— Hence it may be conceived. what au astonishing space is necessary for all thew lecke The pro prietors, without any further expense, ohtaiti ei sure profit from their pastures, which they pet fee to the expensive and precarious returns of leo icul sure. Thus wasidering batioperr, who catinot pra t . cure a sithsisteoce by his work, except during a small, part of the year, soon sieglects to till the mirth. and dies withrint heirs ; and thin both the population awl imeicueure seller. But it is not tits sheep Pulp that oceuriy PO much dance; the DI-crib of horses, mules. end horned caule, like wise require room. To this we must add, the ex teat ef the saltpetre grow ids, its which so many baud* are usefully employer,. it must further be ceiseidereil, that iu Wipe tracts of dry soil, which are watered only by acetileirtal showers, p a rticular theposiyieue and IltVilingtUlP4ltll are requisite, and that these can only he made by sere opulent Owners. theta's IL is *beauty, that we must de duct almost one-third of the centre' regions of Spain, if we would calculate the sisate susceptible of celtivistien. This third part, however, is by no means a dead los, as we have alrewly seen. 'Cite horw+, the tanks, and the Narks of sheep, with all the trea sates wtich they bring into the country, roitipieti sftte these parts ...or the want of agriciilture. The docks of Spaaish h !VI) are.pstrtly miqmtory, and partly stations , :. run:her:Ad produce 'f the later, which shmintithrouglie.it the whole Ivor,- i s is iutpo;c.i%*to lalcu:ati!: but the samter‘ Sag locks comprehead s wut cite minions of ani mals. Though sp..ay bhrefo yield ten poands of xet if we. reckmi then? ou an nrcra;_e at sic pounds each, the total tuiouut is thirty tail;ioits of 011911111111111111111111111/111101.11IMMIIMI • ' -. irfr i • - -.' 1 " • er A. - . . .. the noise of 'Oros is4eled-herreir ••• pounds meet with canna um, sod 104 , .- • w isebls e • Iliftllll of till so ich ateohelltio . r -!, • , . sheep. .... to tits... of any ." ;in the f prc.cco :••• with a liew tt th ' t . f OVethe 1, t , . 4 ei the pas tug, ii ng, that schools , • t• oral h s.:l . ch. . • morn t mathematics. have _ rah no the intim' r - , tbruriet of Giiiiin.coa. sthioaillis • are covered truant( with excellent timber, im. . .esaut and teal- M a ) , out-trees, which contribute to•vards the sub.FiNtestee else. • .... penal. These Itocts are trollied by 17,90 c ;10r—: words, four perooti+ brifnirotrired far every I.,tott Tlitt excellcitt quality of the Newish wool pr&ceerflo print hied) , frets te peculiar nature of 'lle pasturage, which easiblists tif verb fine grass, 1114 • than two inches hie;!l, that wt....abundantly liner, in the mountainous parts ni I .immthut are ocilc covered with si,l.Vi 1 . 111 the mouth of anal tire iiirapanle oa pemliteing any tithe' When peculiar eircuinbtaiwts iieprive the docks of tVis fts6.4, the %writ is en A rber, a n d the sheep more to (Ilse. be. Sonic writers have seemed to suppose, that the other to .i-i;iiras of the arsine land in the narrow of Spain, lies almobt entirely uiuvatea, tiortiti4ll the indolence of the iiiimhitts orb Ilia, %wen foreign ers ntu,s,lit to know. that these eeittrzl re;; o n , are the variety of the ; that oil is esi,,,,•tr.l trout the Wu C.istiles, from Alc..rrin and Toledo, and from the shores of the Taws* to America, after the cmwidiptiou or the northern parts has been supplied ; that IA N1311E113 010.0 l gross a; much wine its is couonins.l in all Spain ; awl I.t-11:L. that Aar, hemp. saffron. honey. wax. valet:l6les mid fruits of evcry kind, are the mriliniary tomtits:emits of these have. beside*, conside:- afilc unmuketures ct alai: and woollen cloth :•tioey yield quicksilver, antimony, rock/tub, &c. w hitit works milord employ meat to tin - mann - is of hands. If there t):1,4 111:403111 1.104•11111111:V1.1 vpOlY, a here the intludry of tlw inhabitant+ limit imt yi:t been ex erted 111 CIE. degfet 111 Whit 11 it 014;14 to lOW.. rti:l it it 110 t iil4 10 consider time whale mitica Ike immersed in sloth Kiel indolence, lance the *slue ceintne is nut passed upon the Freoch and Ei•gliols fur a like pa tial neglect. TH E BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 15. -.~.~:- TILE EINGS PREROGATIVE. A Bill was 11 - might into Pa7lisinient, and re- Mired the 8.0ia1.-laseia, at the Owe of the Sewing). which we think boaetteeteci a change that deeply Interests every Mau who lovsia the Coostitutium A is entidisdr-.? • " An Matt piatitit Giotto tentrut is Werth...ours is the Port of Latiaeti..to.ke reostrocd to the 41st-torts for Ea rostaLioo wails Part of Eon:loci Por empaarrittg Hie Ms jerty to (tweet, that 'Armies, shieb Ilia .Nioireq is aotho. rimd to grant ruder has Stge maybe rooted I. sae . of the Pritoipet grereiarif..4 of State ; and for eoaMing Pie blidetts to iwriait the Eap4;rtetios of Goods la Volea'a of Ire" ihardeo thao are •sew ollsered Iry Law, ditrieg the pre en. Hustitttio, and until use swath after the Sigaatere of tie pryliwitary Artieke of Peres" surpnae mid astorishasent were estimated, in both Houses of Parliament, when it was found ' that the ludictuseat Bill had nearly pas , rd. before theoutny detects ; 3 its original forth ha I beets no; Sued, or nay attempt had been pluck to tuodit* or ameliorate its Ob.ieetionahle clatters. Here, ft,w,: ever, we iuve • Dot, whicb,whiteit.porports to leo mere matter of commercial regulatimi, trenches nolo the executive authority, and traissiero thss prerogative of the. Crown, so far as respects the.ue cessity of having the Hoye' Sign Manual to the Lieedaes usually granted in the hestrelies of enciin,;:Te so regulated, to one of IV. !Majesty's I'Socipal Secretaries of State. lititovations apart the law of the land, acid, particularly, in sn delit.ate a part of it as That directly affecting the pretn.;atives or the Crown ' , should. Le made . % ith great caution,usd are to be iustilieil only on the grdnod of Awes-arm necessity, or satraorlioa. ry advantage. If the present Act, however, only did *hat it purports to do ; if it merely went the length of relieving Hi, Majesty firma the trouble of signing with his own 11,:.nd these Licenses, for the I ehpurtatiou of itatehouctd goods, by enabling him to do it by peony, through the medium of one of he Principal Secretaries of State, it weall not ad v.. it a ease of great magnitude or danger, and to tlAis ie pmbably to be imputed its :lasing passed bolls Houses of Parliament, without •notiee or oh. serration But what is the fact I—T;ec aecona clause a ;Li.. Art of Parliament is as follows : II " ;Aorta*, Lt dircrs Acts of l'arlialmat fv+slother mg., lle yl:.jesSy is authorised to grout iteeases for an,* pa,-posx. nuuy td • ble.4 het r.scs hare ',satiny bees, sal me% {.nears es way be ranted under the stathem..• of the said Acts, are therr.lip reqsuret to he, under His .113 jester Saen Neural; and it is expeatest that His Majesty should he gu shiest to direct that easucts lit -tuxes, Is, by • Aar of the stud aferlasse-klif ALYsity Nov, graut. Arderiaii Siga Minutia, shall be ;punted by ',tie of Ws l'cioeiral sect-etas. of 3:ate, sailer tha authority of as Orate of.l'Asseil forties purpose; be it tbereliia enacted, That it shod sad say be lac ful for HI. Majesty, by is Cou;,cll, ur by his Playa'. Proclaim:Skis, to Sweet, that 03 or say such Less, as by virtue of asy Act of Parliament, or otherwise, Ilia Majesty may lawfully grist, under Lis Ili;a Manual, rh:-. , ! tail say be (rased by sue of iii. Majesty's P. s:.C:pal &mimics ef State, in pursuant.* cf an Order of Counc.l specially audio. rising the ant of such licels.^, adeplscats of *Li( h Order 'Sall, in ail cases, be auncietl to such litense." Here then vie find aitiAtt, !importing to dispense with the Royal Sign Manual in t:ic particular case of warehoused goods, made universal, Whether toe Sign Manual be requ:red.by tof Par!i;:nient, or otherwise," that is, a heti.. r it ba s:actnry, or a breach of the prerogative grown up with the Constitution, no matter fr.= what sottr:e derived, here we fi-ri it complet,ly arelit sway :ay the re- cowl clause. But it Indy he Itaid the .he Mao : . cation is still confine-I to licenses fur - minimise:l gopda. Nnt at ail. The secoo clause, owtstep ping the preamble of the statute. cattle!' to L emon for ea various pu;:pasea," to " liceuses to which the Sign ?latiuu I was Tel ait:te, whether by Act of rarliaintot or oilinivice." Loot to the tare of the Bill ; Who could hnvc tier sal) a serrepiog cluns,•Yould Ilnve beCii 4iseril its a Bill ;MI oath a title ? 'file late Millis- tent were alsisusl for intos.lnclug the clause in fa your or ia the Mutiny Bill. Wes it to bz. supposed that the men who load arraigned their co:aluct—.vho pursued them with so much acer bity and rancour, for their conduct in that particu lar. wouhl be capable of loung4liug into a Bill, for the purpose of facitituthig the export ation of warehoused goods. a clause dispensing with the Royol Sign Manual, ;anti cases of licenses what- et rr ? The ineatititt4 of the word I iecusz , is, a it brrty to 11,) r tvrtaitt art prittlibitell by ittw. It is not confined t. utone. It extends to even• part of MN ial intrreourie ; a eircuiaidauce which .alope would Atflice to laSeW the magnitude of tins alArgbing iiiiiMfat . .by Kisewitig the west extent of the royal ditty it affects sad transfers to one of Ilii;Maj,3ty's Secretaries of State. Every week's Landau Gawite presents us with licenses to assume to bear titles, as well as liceaases to export warehoused good*. But we may he told that ninitters, good, king), and compassionate souls, wish to save his 31aie*ty trouble, aril the grateful Lord Ilawknibury, the humane Lord Castlereagh, and the ilignifitil 11r. Canning, are all eager to rid him of hit rafal cares: Wall and truly did our Harry the fifth exclaim, L'ataty lies the head that wears a croire. The crows of England, however enviable, is, igdicerf, a crowu of thorns. ./t re quired some physical force, and it consequently a trouble, to sign the !hut made Lord Itovkise bury Lord Warden of the Cinque Porta, and Mr. Pereevars brother, Registrar.of the Court of Ad miralty. It it a trouble to confer titles, and places, and pemiom ; to attend ieVre, and councils.-- When Richard the 77tieef turned upon Bucking ham, sunplicatfug his fur the Earldom of Here ford, grout said, Tkosi trauldest we, lem not is the reiu," who v. ill presume to say that. Richard slid not speak as Ise felt ? If it be a trouble grant titles, and honours, and places, and vensions, under the Royal Sign Manual, it is surely mileh more trouTil, some mid 'Ettinittl to refute them. Why not thee save the Kia the trouble in these cases, as well as in liceureir Id-every, liestiriptio“ ? Iflthe principle be good, it aitends to the one case equally as to the other. Rot. iso,. the. pritteiPle is not - gasitti- It is full of darigt4 to thoitibertiug of th- country, add the . tallity *ad dignity of the Crown. It it by bit acv, inoterhiatitabd, the King is mown and ecitiiified kit the . G. Rex, and ant the awnatttrobC some u r iffs it 13e,: eretary, that a loyal .[stied ilp4r*Li ;(*loee. ledge and resent as the tau otitis-441w. friar, coo- ; fen ed giant him. ''it t el'hid Of Soule. 4 Wit 411seti;s1 Kings So iltitetaff, !hit the signature of theft:pa tents ran thus : And keret:WOO I set' tit sunk, not knuwing boa to write ;'' but acetate marl of sue who slehtgated a SeerentriaState to Meg fur him. Yet the Ministers who here done this are the linv,;'sfriestslt ; they are the pillant of theCisurch„aod the champion* of *tne . Constiltition ; they are the' friends of the Pope in Italy, and of Popery in Spain, and true haters of the Pope and Popery iu Irelatid. The good King Lear. had - three daughteni, and King George the• Third has three Secretaries of State. The:act wiiieii has extorted these obser vations received the Rreyist anent, by commission, nu Friday se'ilitiglit : but lfiitirterr Juice not yet carried it into effect, and all otficial import have beta seat, as usual, every mornimg.by a mrs.eneer. for His Majesty's signature by Sign Manual.— Wheth,r Ministers are alarm.'/ at what they lace dour. or tied a il;fficulty in carrying the act into excretion, we do not pretend to say, but that they labour under ream embarrassment is most cert,in. 'the clause which we have copied, it will be observed, authorises one of His Mans. it's Principe/ Secretaries of Stine to pi;.um fur the Ks w e ; bat who of the three is to be the happy man la the question ? The King aleay. signs an Metro . utent at the top. on the left hand, and the Secre tary of State for the Home Department signs at the bottom, by command of His Majesty. Lord Hewkesbury is how Secretary of State for the Home Department. Who will be Secretary in his place, to-ieorrow, knows ; but the honour and dignity of substitutioy, Hawke. bury, the saa of Jookiason, for the King of England, even thou.gli f o r a want it', is worth coated-ding for. If Lord llaa-Lesl;nry is to sign under the act, he 'alit he head and tail of th e instrument ; he will be se. far MoOre COISSIIII.IIIO4/6 in tile eyes of Ilia subject. than the King of kig hutrl ever was; he will lie the top and the butane of the instrument. Mr. Canning and Lord Cas tlereaKh object tothis taintordinuty prss:.trietace and 1 pre-eminence. They say, they are equally Pei's eipal Secretaries. of State. and, as such, equally entitled, under the act, to sits fur the King, as Lord Hawkeslialy. Lord Melville has liven cal:cif:oat Scotland to set& time que.tion. In the' titne, we repeat. the Act is not carried into efie , :t. Mr. Perceetal and the other Ministers aiW pear very. anxious to preserve the constitution of the Holy See, and the ri;.;ht of die Pope. They appear also very zealous in support oldie rights of the lii•e; of Spain and the Inquisition. We trust that We people of England will take can of the rights of George the Third. sad •his We . .11 to-monow resume subji et, in rt.....t10rt t* its operation We anuminceil :.:.,mor ani r e at of . an Luil.assi f:ott. IE4: Uticm.:lll Pont. It consitsts of two Envoy c, i:z. ts:uft'r Errtint, Ccrge des Afiaires, and St fa Act:MET EYELID!, Envoy (ruin the Porte and Allrouw , their Serret ry and suite, consisting of 4 bervatits. They isrlivril::t Dock late on Monday ev g. under a salute of 15 guns, and set og about nine o'clock for town, where they mow u..e. Au immense crowd attended at the fountain Inn, to witness their departure. Ther e distingaished strangers are the beaters of patches from their Goverument, and pro:icsals fur the neeninmodstion of sill differences betweei England and Turkey.. Thm s came from Malt y but touched at Gibralter and since at Viga. At the latter place they were informed that the Fin hid lost— Dupont, at Cordova, Under L•t:vice, at Slragossa Under Mo :cry, c.t Valtacia Making a total .............. 39,thyno They add, but this picture is evidently too highly coloured, that there do not reintiiii 500 Frenehmen iu arms throughout all. Spain. Lu the first uetiou at Cordova the Spaniards are said to hare lest yOtig, and in the second 5000. The Lorly AroGinn ar►ived •n Wearies. dal• at Harwich from Gottenburgh, passed Sir Jotis 'Howie:a Expedition ou its return to England, off the Dogger Back.—lt has no doubt reached ti k a coast before this time. The Fortene, KIKMAN, is arrived at Liverpool from Jamaica, which ;slave she left on the it7th of May, in company with the Swill', TAYLOR, for Bristol; and the Annetta, PI'S AUGHT, for Glasgow. She parted Loan the former oil the Sib June, off He arin; and from the latter on the 1 nth June, in la'. '29. N. trmg. G. W. The fleet bay Great Britain, &v. wits to gait train Jamaica ou the _sth June, udder convoy of the Adamant, and were to raine throweia abet:64h. The Experimee, PROCTIRs is also ar rived at Liverviol from St. Lucie, which place she left en the 7th juae, and brinp an account that the illilisimiseno, with the fleet fain Portsmouth, and the - A:wino; with the fleet from Conk, had arrived at nit bat:eves. Tlia4"rineeisF.iessFirrh packet is arrived at ra!- Infxtth, from the Moiliterremesm„ We hive reeeivtd thtbStiiii`this ehauuel Giliraltar Ropers, from which we have made some cstraets. They contain an official . riecautit or the action on the Bth, •t Cor- Aloe& la that affair it appears, that the Spaniards were. ,defeeted. mid, consequently, the account iu no Oviedo qtnetie, in which it was described as a viettrti rim the.siete of the Patriots, appears, as to to have been, a total misrepresentation. A - cecina:a, however, received by the. Bittern, which we named yesterday, .state, that the Patriots, not disranyed by this check, and in the course of a few slays, riinforceinents pawing is from all side., asuiu attacked Durost, and, after a most severe action of several hours, succeeded in iminPlettlY anniliilufitis the French army. We give this day the Official Acswer of tb POPE, to the ineltarr of Boa &Paint, t., strip II:s Hutt% F.'s 4 . f all his territories, in the event of his relabel to rest;a all hits teasporal power to his direction. This doctiineut taints, in glotiiii.g ceiours„ the lierdti .is and tuirtitelitl conduct of thel)rar,t, whose lio att to t:inrfness can touch, in uiio-t: bostisn gratitude could not retied', and whose ands- Sion it is to destroy every thing that retool:4 ot . at: der and system iu the.eivilised world. liii kur.steiittip Serpent , rettrned to Joe mu ca, fell in uith; at the 2'.:tl May, the .taNt. GRANT, from Jasimiea for Glasgow ; Russ, ----. ditto for L.endon ; Atalanta., —..-, and Jamaica, tfo for Liverpool; the latitude and longitude not inentioired ; but on the 20th of Alay, the Sa pest was Yli miles . S. W. him the Grand Cuicos. Souse accounts weir received yesterday from Ilollaad, to the Rth instant. Tbey-state, that some di-tui batives bare broken out among the French troops in Gerit:tiny. particularly at llnssrldortf. The French .Idmiral, aussitty, is reported t have died of his wounds soon after the surrender of the French spiadron. - A lurge Russian frigate has been taken by the .S'alseits frigate, in the Baltic, after • very severe, though short erigngemeat. 'lke details are not yet arrived. This morning the two Regiments of Life Guards iltill he reviewed by the Prince of WALLS, on Wimbledon Common. After the review, Lord lisiveuttatn, the Commander of tlte Regiments, in the abs-lice of the Earl of Haan 'votes mud Lard Civic:atm, will give a snmptuon. dinner. at his honey in Hill-street, Berkelepopuire, to the Pauscs and the Officers. We are truly sorry to understand that SUS lower classed of the Inhabitants, on the welt-cwt.: of It.- refuels and Ross:shirt a, and in ina..y iwrts of doe Ilebrides, are in a state of very great distress from the want of provisions. Until very lately, a I . "' humane and spirited individuals, acquainted 'ilk the circumstances of the people:, stniplied them tr:th 'meal on credit. usit.:l a di mood ihould arise for their black cattle. the only comnisrlity the! have to disrose of; beet their suppli.v beisg liset,ted„- aorl * nevi-tsary re;;iiirl for their T :h.lO . cavity tutting noek?rta.: it adt.,..abitz estewl their ce.iit on) Cut Awe, Cle e are likely to le e% pet ienet 41. altbo4l4l ;nt!, •••- ••••• g ne, Of Meal h 44 .? re Little Ot:Ilt *it; lite he. trutions. Ur.fortuniately. h . otwertr. it -.dr 'IC Tfil 0411 XlOl.. it CAIN anti the eetlatV, 1., : Ai turfy drained of itioott.ll. the tniaeu!. e i 41.1 be dooltp4 b s:ut%r in tUe tnel..tal f!=erties.) (Mrs alai •