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*“4] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795.. 
inculcated by that reformer, and 
Zuinglius. Maximilian, in an age 
of persecutions. declared publicly 
his repugnance tO all religious vio- 
lence, and his unarerable opinion, 
tbat ‘to the suprem being alone, 
it belonged to judge the Gpscience,” 
Nor did he content bibself with 
only asserting this princip,. jj. 
active benevolence impelled hy 4, 
make every exertion, to stop 1, 
destructive influence of bigotry, in 
other countries. Touched with the 
cries and complaints of the Flem- 
ings, he dispatched his brother, the 
archduke Charles, to Philip If. with 
directions to remonstrate with bim 
on his violation of their privileges, 
civil and religious; though this bu- 
mane interposition was ineffectual. 
He did not conceal his detestation 
of the massacre of St. Bartholo- 
mew, for which Rome\and Madrid 
made public demonstrations of joy ; 
and when Henry III... king of 
France, passed through Vienna, in 
his flight from Poland to his own 
country, the emperor strongly ex- 
horted him to commence his reign, 
by maxims and principles of tolera~ 
tion. It would have been happy for 
Henry, and his people, if he had 
been capable of profiting by the 
advice. . i 
—— 
Account of the Convent of Nuns of 
‘ Clarisse, at Cologne; from Mrs. 
Radcligfe’s Journey through Hol- 
land and the Western Frontier of 
Germany. 
()yv® inn had formerly been a 
; onvent, an d was in apart of 
the town where such societies are 
more numerous than elsewhere. At 
five v’clock, on the Sunday after 
our arrival, the belis of churches 
and convents began to sound on all 
‘sides, and there was scarcely any 
entire intermission of them till even-. 
‘ing. 
The places of public amuse- 
ment, chiefly a sort of tea-gardens, 
were then set open, and, in many 
Streets, the sounds of music and 
dancing, were heard almost as 
plainly as that of the bells had been 
before ; a disgusting excess of licen- 
tiousness, which appeared in other 
instances, for we heard, at the same 
time, the voices of a choir on one 
“de of the street, and the neise of a 
thowd-table on the other, Near 
benouns this contrast was more ob- 
eh - While the Strains of 
aac ioe from an adjoining gar- 
al Wa ‘hich our windows open- 
bist S¢ Isthe music allowed us 
. 1 SOME yotes of the vesper 
phe performity ina convent of 
the orde, of Clariss., only three or 
four doorbeyond. Qf the severe 
rules of th society we had been 
told in the ™rning. . The members 
take @ VOW, of only to renounce 
the world, butyeir dearest friends 
and are never Ptyitted to see even 
their fathers OF rothers, though 
they may sometin, Converse with 
the latter from beg av captain 
And, lest some linge. : 
filial affection hols ‘e dieenuteoxe 
4 pt an un- 
happy nun to lift the °; bites 
ration between herself a. ‘ rr, 
ther, she is not ylowed | ew 
even with her, but\in the Moone 
of the abbess. AcCounts o} a 
horrible perversions »f human < 
son make the blood \hrill. TE. 
fathers they can neverspeak to, fo. 
no man is suffered to bin any part 
of the convent used b\ the sister- 
hood, nor, indeed, is amitted be- 
yond the gate, except v n there is 
a necessity for repairs, Wen all the 
votaries of the order are yeviously 
secluded. It is not easily tht a cau- 
tious mind becomes conv\ced of 
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