1 ADVERTISEMENT BY THE TRANSLATOR. THOUGH the public is already in poffeffion of the remarks of several travellers on Spain, they none of them can make any pretenfions to preclude the prefent work, the author of which has principally directed his inquiries to a fubject which, though highly interesting, perhaps the most interesting of any that can engage the attention of a traveller, has been lefs attended to by former writers on this country; I mean the present state of its civil government, trade, and manufactures. The long stay of the Chevalier de Bourgoanne in Spain has enabled him to treat these *The Chevalier, we have been informed, was secretary to the French embassy at the court of Spain; and refides at present at Hamburgh, as French minifter to the Circle of Lower Saxony. VOL. I. A fub fubjects more at large, and more accurately, than any who have preceded him; not to mention that the accounts here given, independent of their unquestionable fidelity, are much the most modern. To render this work ftill more compleat, an additional volume has been added, consisting of very copious extracts from the Effays on, or Travels in, Spain, of M. Peyron; a late work of confiderable merit, which has never yet appeared in English, Such defcriptions of places as had already been described in the preceding volumes, inventories of paintings, the whole, or at least the principal, of which had before been noticed, are, as may be fuppofed, omitted. Thus alfo the chapters on the inquifition, the bull-fights, and the Spanish fheep, are omitted, because they contain little more than what may be found in the work of M. de Bourgoanne. The greatest part, however, of what is most interesting and novel in the Tra |