Among their modern dramas, the Spaniards particularly esteem the regular tragedies of Nicolas Fernandez de Moratin, and the comedies of Ramon de la Cruz, who, previous to the year 1784, was computed to have written upwards of two hundred interludes in the old style. Spanish translations of the tragedies of Corneille and Voltaire, of the plays of Moliere, and other French comic writers, and of the sentimental dramas of Mercier, have also been received with approbation. Don Leandro Fernandez de Moratin, who must not be confounded with his namesake, travelled at the expense of the Spanish government to study the dramatic literature of the different nations of Europe; and since his return to Spain, a considerable pension has been granted to him as a reward for one of his dramatic productions. He has rendered the tragedy of Hamlet into Spanish, and is expected to give to his countrymen a complete translation of Shakespeare. Don Luciano Francisco Comella, who is mentioned in literary journals as one of the rivals of Leandro de Moratin in comic poetry, appears to be a very prolific writer, and inclined to the old national style. Don Theodoro de la Calla has attempted to give Shakespeare’s Othello in Spanish, from a French translation. Comella has also dramatized several recent historical events, among which are some points in the history of Peter the Great, and Catharine II. of Russia. The Count de Noroña has particularly distinguished himself as a writer of lyric poetry, and he has also translated Dryden’s Alexander’s Feast into Spanish verse. Joseph Vasquez Cadalso, and the younger Moratin, may be ranked among the most successful writers of satirical poetry which Spain has recently produced. _Diana_, or the _Hunt_, by the elder Moratin; the _Happy Man_, by Almeida; and the _Happy Woman_, by Morino, are the latest productions in didactic poetry. A Spanish translation of _How to be always Merry_, from the German of Uz, also occurs in the notices of new Spanish poems. The old ambition of the Spaniards to distinguish themselves by some production in epic art has again revived. A work of this class, entitled, _Mexico Conquistada_, by Don Juan de Escoiquiz, has excited some attention. Spanish pastorals in the old national style are associated with translations from the German of Gessner. The collision of the natural and foreign styles is strikingly exemplified in the Spanish romance literature of the present period. The old romance of _Cassandra_ has lately been re-printed; and a new one in the old style, entitled, _Leandra_, has also made its appearance. All the English and French novels which obtain any celebrity, are now translated into Spanish.