Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de**, a celebrated Spanish statesman and writer, born in the Asturias about 1710. His grand objects seem to have been to stimulate the industry and education of the people of Spain; and while president of the council of Castile, and director of the Royal Academy of History, he was distinguished by forwarding to the utmost those two important objects, which had been sadly neglected for ages by Spanish statesmen. His transcendent abilities, his learning, and patriotic efforts are highly praised by Townsend and other intelligent travellers who visited Spain from 1780 to 1788. 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 work was literary, *Antigüedad Marítima de la República de Cartago*, with an appendix containing a translation of the *Voyage of Hannibal* 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 Educación 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 the old manufactures, or of re-establishing them, with 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 guild laws of artizans, contrasted with the results of Spanish legislation and municipal ordinances of towns; the fourth contains eight essays of Francisco Martínez de Mata, on national commerce, with some observations adapted to present circumstances. These were all printed at Madrid in 1774 and 1777 in 5 volumes in 8vo, which then corresponded with the size of our 12mo, as appears from a copy which had been presented by the illustrious author, now in the possession of the writer of this article. Count Campomanes died in 1802.