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be well paid for fuch journies j and they would bo 

 relieved from breathing, all the year round, in 

 their ftalls, the putrid exhalations of rotting car^ 

 cafes. The principal obftacle to this neceflary re* 

 form in our police, proceeds from the great and 

 the rich, who, feldom difpofed to crowd the church 

 in their life time, are eager for admiffion after their 

 death, that the people may admire their fuperb 

 maiifeieay and their virtues portrayed in brafs and 

 marble. But, thanks to the allegorical reprefenta- 

 tions of our Artifts, and to the Latin infcriptions 

 of our Literatiy the People know nothing about 

 the matter ; and the only reflexion which they 

 make, at fight of them, is, that all this muft have 

 coft an enormous fum of money ; and that fuch a 

 vaft quantity of copper might be converted, to 

 advantage, into porridge-pots. 



' Religion alone has the power of confecrating, 

 in a manner that (hall laft, the memory of Virtue. 

 The King of Pruffia, who was fo well acquainted 

 with the great moving fprings of politics, did not 

 overlook this. As the Proteftant Religion, which 

 is the general profeflîon of his kingdom, excludes 

 from the churches the images of the Saints, he fup- 

 plied their place with the portraits of the moft di- 

 flinguifhed officers who had fallen in his fervice. 

 The firft time I looked into the churches at Berlin, I 

 was not a little aftonilhed to fee the walls adorned 



with 



