CONDE DE PEDRO

See also:

• RODRIGUEZ (officially RODRIGUES)

RODRIGUEZ

See also:

• CONDE DE PEDRO RODRIGUEZ CAMPOMANES (1723-1802)

CAMPOMANES (1723-1802)  , Spanish statesman and writer, was born at Santa Eulalia de Sorribia, in Asturias, on the 1st of July 1723 . From 1788 to 1793 he was president of the council of Castile; but on the accession of Charles IV. he was removed from his office, and retired from public life, regretted by the true friends of his country . His first literary work was Antiquidad maritima de la republica de Cartago, with an appendix containing a translation of the Voyage of Hanna the Carthaginian, with curious notes . This appeared in a quarto volume in 1756 . His principal works are two admirable essays, Discurso sobre el fomento de la industria popular, 1774, and Discurso sobre la education popular de los artesanos y su fomento, 1775 . As a supplement to the last, he published four appendices, each considerably larger than the original essay . The first contains reflections on the origin of the decay of arts and manufactures in Spain during the last century . The second points out the steps necessary for improving or re-establishing the old manufactures, and contains a curious collection of royal ordinances and rescripts regarding the encouragement of arts and manufactures, and the introduction of foreign raw materials . The third treats of the gild laws of artisans, contrasted with the results of Spanish legislation and the municipal ordinances of towns . The fourth contains eight essays of Francisco Martinez de Mata on National commerce, with some observations adapted to present circumstances . These were all printed at Madrid in 1774 and 1777, in five volumes . Count Campomanes died on the 3rd of February 1802 .

Don A . Rodriguez Villa has placed a biographical notice of Campo-manes as an introduction to the first edition of his Callas politicoeconomicas, published in 1878 .