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Mentz, by M. Tuoest, entitled, “the 
History of Magic, Demons, Sorcerers, 
&ec.” which contains an affecting nar- 
rative of numbers that have sutfered 
for the pretended crime of magic. 
The cases enumerated are proved 
from unequivocal authority. In these 
excesses of the magistrates, female 
sorcerers have been the greatest suf- 
ferers. Among other curious articles 
in the collection, we learn that Chris- 
topher de Rantzow, a gentleman of 
Holstein, whose heated imagination 
had misled his understanding, con- 
signed eighteen persons to the flames, 
at one time, the wretched victims of a 
merciless superstition. In a village 
called Lindheim, containing about 600 
inhabitants, not less than thirty were 
destroyed by fire, in the narrow space 
contained between the years 1661 and 
1665. In this inhuman plan of treat- 
ment, towards an unhappy class of 
persons, the author points out Wurtz- 
burg as having frequently been sub- 
ject to well-merited reproach, It 
appears from the Acta Magica of Nau- 
bers, that, between the years 1627 and 
1629, 127 individuals perished, in si- 
milar instances of cruelty, practised 
by their brother men. The principal 
objects of such nefarious dealings 
were old women or travellers, and fre- 
quently poor children from nine to ten 
years of age. Occasionally, such out- 
rages have been perpetrated on per- 
sons of some consequence, proficients 
in knowledge, above the general ap- 
prehension of the age, or such as had 
acquired property by their industry. 
Among many others, in the shocking 
detail, are the respectable names of 
fourteen vicars, two young gentlemen, 
some counsellors, the largest or most 
corpulent man in Wurtzburg, and his 
wife, the handsomest woman in the city, 
and: a student or scholar engaged in 
the study of foreign languages. These 
innocent sufferers were frequently put 
to the torture. But what must our 
feelings and principles incline us to 
think of an enormity here brought to 
recollection, in the instance of a poor 
girl that suffered so late as in the year 
1749? 
Statistics of the Prussian Dominions. 
These extend from the frontiers of 
Russia to those of France, and consist 
of an assemblage of slips and samples 
of almost all the German nations. By 
the war of 1806 the monarchy lost 
one-fifth part of its population; but, 
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by the peace of 1815, a considera- 
ble part of those losses was recover- 
ed, and the acquisition of the coun- 
tries on the Rhine proved a source of 
aggrandizement, forming a striking 
contrast, as to statistical calcula- 
tions, to the arid tracts beyond the 
Vistula. 
All the Prussian states, at present, 
are divided into ten provinces, and 
these are subdivided into twenty-seven 
districts of Regency, and 338 circles. 
The surface, not including the lakes, 
comprehends 13,744 square leagues, 
of twenty-five toa degree. The popu- 
lation, including the military, may be 
rated at 10,976,252, which allows 798 to 
asquare league. The inhabited houses 
are estimated at 1,570,805, including 
the cities, towns, or villages. The ci- 
ties or principal towns, in number 
1027, are divided into four classes. 
Those of the first rank are Berlin, 
Breslau, Dantzic, Cologne, Konigs- 
berg, Magdeburg, Stettin, Aix-la- 
Chapelle, Elberfeld, and Bremen. 
The towns of the second rank are 133 
in number, twenty-seven of which are 
in the countries on the Rhine, while 
the three great provinces of the east, 
that is, Eastern and Western Prussia 
and Posen, have only sixteen. The 
towns of the third class, in number 
401, are suchas have a population ex- 
ceeding 1500 individuals. Of those 
of the fourth rank, in number 483, we 
find 244 of a population inferior to 
1500, and the other 239 are below a 
thousand. Throughout the Prussian 
states, according to the census of 1819, 
the number of horses was 1,332,276 ; 
of horned cattle, 4,275,705; of sheep, 
9,065,720. With respect to the pro- 
ductions. of the soil, the means and 
materials of industry, commerce, and 
other resources, that constitute the 
riches of a state, the Board of Statis- 
tics at Berlin intend hereafter to pub- 
lish the requisite details. 
Brief Analysis of the Report presented 
to the Minister of Interior, by the 
French Medical Commission sent to 
Barcelona. 
In general, according to the concen- 
trated view which these physicians 
give of the contagion, itisno other than 
the yellow fever; as such, they have 
always considered it, though they may 
notdeclare this positively. They main- 
tain, that the malady did nottakeitsrise 
in Barcelona, that it did not originatein 
the filthiness of the streets, or the un- 
healthful 
