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pa ‘my. prayers for your, recovery. 
aying made your confession, and com=; 
riunivated, offer up your owa also, with 
that férvéicy of devotion and entire faith 
whith wé ‘owe to our Redeemer ‘Jesus 
Christ! “Stir up'from the bottom’ of your © 
heart. the divine virtues ‘of true repen 
tanee;/of Christian’ chatity fo all men; of 
firm belief that “yoursprayers Will be fa~ 
vorably received, and a stedfast resolution 
fo lead_an exemplary life,’ to the end that 
you may continue in a state of grace. . 
Accept the assurance of my regard. 
_ Prince ALEXANDER HOHENLOHE.” 
Bamberg, March 16, 1822. 
We are tlien told, that on the next 
day, the 3d of May, she went through 
the religious process prescribed by 
the prince, and, mass being nearly 
ended, almost immediatcly after she 
felt an extraordinary sensation through 
tlie whole arm, to the ends of her 
finzers. “The pain instantly left her, 
and ‘the swelling gradually subsided ; 
but it was some weeks before the 
hand resumed its natural size and 
shape!!!-’ If our English convents 
make such appeals to valgar super- 
stition as this, it seems high time that 
they Were transferred to a more genial 
soil, The world is now too old for 
miracles in medicine or philosophy. 
Pe CEE RUSSIA. 
Translations of Sir WaLTER Scott’s 
and Lord’ Brron’s works, or rather 
the most ‘celebrated of them, have 
appeared in Russia. ‘ In France and 
Germany they are grecdily seized for 
the same purpose ; and it formsia rico 
among thé trade which shall bring them 
out first. 
' A table has becn published, from 
official documents, of the population, 
&e. of Russia, for 1822. 4 gives the 
number of the inhabitants for cach of 
the fifty governments, also the govern- 
ments ‘in geographical sqnare miles. 
Some of tliese may be noticed here:— 
age Inhabitantss “Sq.Miles, 
- Archangel +-+>+200,000 11,900 : 
Astrachan (+ «+» 190,000 3,100 
Courland « +» -+410,000 . 330 
Noyogorod +»++675,000 2,800 
- Moscow «+++1,27/5,000 420 
© Pefersburgh --590,000 84 
Toljolski ««'+ ++ +430,000 16,800 
Sidlensko +. «950,000 1,000 
Tktitsk' '-0's/.'910,000°" 126,400 
—The 4umxHotal of inhabitants’ for the 
wholf empite is’ stated At'40,067,000 : 
the ‘‘timbér  6f" manufictorics ‘and 
Workshops 'at"3,724;theé total ‘of'com- 
nroial capital a 31D\660,000 youBIee * 
and tite revenue from the poll-tax, and 
MonTHLy Mac. No. 366. 
Literary and Philosophical Latelligence. 
161 
that on the consumption of fiquors, at 
* 169,350,000 roubles. i 
riz feo boi, SEDENo.a: 0} “i 
- Jn. the Royal Library,.at, Stockholm, 
there €xists.a very remarkable manu- 
script, the Codex Giganteus,,..Tt wa 
taken: froma Benedictine monastery 
at. Prague,..during the, thirty-yearg’, , 
war. It is two Swedish ells.in height, : 
and of proportionate breadth, It.con- 
tains, besides the Vulgate, a collection. 
of writings upon the Jewish antiqui-, 
ties, by Josephus, Isidorus, &c.: also 
the Comes Pragensis Chronicon Bohe- 
mié; and a treatise on magic, orna- 
mented with an illuminated gure of 
the devil. 
GERMANY, 
A: German writer, named FApricius, 
has written a violent book against the 
universities of his country; proposing, 
with. a true Goth-like spirit, partly to 
abolish them, and partly to subject 
them to strict inspection by the police, 
M.J. Kerner, a German physician, 
of Stuttgard, has madehe discovery 
of a new kind of poison, that arises im 
smoked meats. It appears, from €.- 
periments which he has made, that 
they become subject to some sort of 
decomposition that renders them yeno= 
mous. Liver sausages are the most 
susceptible of it, and the decomposi- 
tion generally takes place about the 
middle of April. From his enquiries 
the doctor found, that of seyenty-two 
persons, in the country of Wurtem- 
burg, that had eaten smoked sausages, 
thirty-seven died in a little time, and 
the remainder were ill for some time 
afters. i 
FRANCE. 
A small, though very ancient, vase, 
from the collection of the Duke of 
Brimswick, . excites much notice in 
Paris. It is formed of a single onyx, 
six inches. high, fincly coloured, and 
ornamented with bas-ieliefs of very 
high execution. Conjecture attributes 
it io the age of Mithridates. 
Among other associations of recent 
institution in France, is one entitled 
the Society of Christian Morals; tho 
objeet of which is to introduce princi- 
ples of justice, public order, and bene- 
volence; and to apply them, to. the 
social relations. No subjects of con- 
troversy will enter, into their discus- 
sions; but» they propose to. collect 
documents of every kind, and of all 
countries, tending to ameliorate man’s 
mioral and physical condition; to pub- 
lish 
