‘CHRONICLE, 
St. Marie, and one other, are grant- 
ed to that communion, for the cele- 
bration of their religious ceremonies : 
the twelve members of the consistory 
have been already appointed. 
An atrocious murder was lately 
committed in the department of the 
Sarre, in France. A Jew of Mus- 
cuheim having brought a quantity of 
merchandize to Neukirch, a peasant 
agreed to purchase part of it; but, 
not having money sufficient to pay 
for what he had agreed for, the Jew 
did not object to give him credit.— 
The peasant, to convince the Jew 
that he was able to pay, requested 
him to look at his stock of wine. 
When in the cellar, the unfortunate 
Jew received some blows with a 
hatchet, which instantly killed him. 
His long absence, and other circum- 
stances, excited suspicion ; in conse- 
quence of which, the house of the 
peasant was searched, where the 
goods were found, and the dead body 
discovered buried in the garden.— 
The peasant was immediately arrest- 
ed, together with his wife, whom he 
accuses of having struck the first 
blow. 
The Swiss are abandoning their 
country ingreatnumbers. It appears 
that the pecuniary damage which 
that unfortunate country has received 
by the revolution with which the 
French have overwhelmed them, is 
immense, and that it is impossible to 
levy it on the remaining sufferers.— 
The emigrations are represented to be 
so numerous and general, as to call 
io mind the revocation of the edict 
of Nantes. The Swiss are one of 
the most industrious, virtuous, and 
_ ingenious people of Europe; and 
they will, in every respect, bea great 
acquisition to the countries in which 
they shall seek an asylum. 
A letter from Berne, of the Ist 
365 
February, states, that, according to 
an official report laid before govern. 
ment, the loss sustained by the Swiss 
cantons, since the commencement of 
the revolution, amounted in May, 
1801, to the sum of 14,257,590 
livres; and that the assessment or- 
dered for the purpose of repairing 
these losses, only produced 20,883 
livres. The executive council has, 
therefore, sent a message to the se- 
nate, in which it states as follows. 
—‘ The insignificant produce of 
the assessment is an unequivocal 
proof of the wretchedness that pre- 
vails in the republic, as the genero- 
sity of its inhabitants cannot be 
doubted.” 
By letters from Gothenburg, we 
learn that the number of houses 
burnt in a late fire there is 179, and 
the persons who have lost their homes 
2761. The damage is estimated, at 
least, at 1,000,000 rix dollars. 
3d. A-singular phenomenon was 
lately observed in the parish of Noa 
Kopparbarger, in the province of 
Delecarlia, in Sweden. At two in 
the morning, the moon, at its full, 
was seen surrounded by a black cir- 
cle, inclosed in a circle of blood red. 
From the east and west sides of the 
moon several rays escaped, which 
were prolonged to the circles, where 
two suns appeared distinctly, the one 
in the east, and the other in the 
west, having the colours of the rain- 
bow, and emitting perpendicularly 
towards the horizon rays of light. 
In the heavens were seen a rainbow, 
which touched the circle round the 
moon, and on the sides of which 
were also two suns of the same form, 
as the other, but of a paler colour. 
This phenomenon embraced nearly 
the whole horizon, and continued 
some time. 
Early in the morning an Ts 
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