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ment. Unfortunately the direction 

 of the wind was sucli as to carry 

 the scattered pieces of flaming 

 timber towards another farm, oc- 

 cupied by Mr. Wiimey, tlie build- 

 ings of which caught fire; andal- 

 tliough every assistance Avas given 

 that was practicable, this farm 

 was doomed to share the same fate 

 as the former, the whole of tlie 

 buildings being burnt to the 

 ground, except the dwelling-house. 

 At this dreadful lire, a great quan- 

 tity of corn, both in the barns 

 and in stacks, &c. was destroyed ; 

 no less tiuin eleven bains stood 

 upon tliose farms, and the pre- 

 mises altogether are said to have 

 covered four acres of ground. It 

 is painful to add, there is little 

 doubt but that this catastrophe 

 was the work of son)e villain or 

 villains yet undiscovered. — Cam- 

 bridge paper. 



On Friday morning last, be- 

 tween ten and eleven o'clock, a 

 fire was discovered in the house of 

 Mr. Joseph Sharpe, of Great 

 Wratting, which, from being a 

 thatched building, was nearly de- 

 stroyed, together with great part 

 of its contents. The premises 

 were insured in the Suffolk fire- 

 office; but from information re- 

 ceived, there is strong reason to 

 suspect it was wilfully set on fire. 

 —Ibid. 



12. St. Pelersburgh. — On Easter 

 Sunday there was published a very 

 remarkable imperial mandate, in 

 favour of the Jews who are con- 

 verted to Christianity. The fol- 

 lowing are some of the chief ar- 

 ticles : — 



" 1. All Jews embracing the 

 Christian religion, no matter of 

 which confession, shall have pri- 

 vileges granted them, whatever 



profession theymay adopt, suitable 

 to their knowledge and abilities. 



2. In the northern and southern 

 governments, lands shall be as- 

 signed them gratis, where such nt 

 j)lease may settle at their own ex- 

 13ense, under the name of Society 

 of Jewish Christians. 



'i. This society shall have its 

 own privileges. 



4. At St. Petersburgh a board 

 shall be formed, of w hich Piincc 

 Alexander Golyzin shall be presi- 

 dent, under the denomination of 

 "Board for the Affairs of Jewish 

 Christians;" on which, and on no 

 other magistiates (except in cri- 

 minal cases), the society bf Jewish 

 Christians depends. 



.5. This Board is bound to at- 

 tend to every thing relating to the 

 settlements, and to report on it to 

 the Emperor. In the settlement :^ 

 of the Jewish Christians, which 

 are given them as liereditary pro- 

 j)erty for ever, the society can 

 carry on any kind of professions, 

 bviild cities, villages, or single 

 dwellings; the lands are given to 

 the whole community, but not tr> 

 individuals, and cannot be sold or 

 mortgaged to strangers. In thefo 

 settlements the Jewish Chj istian> 

 and their posterity have entire re- 

 ligious liberty in the Christian 

 confession of faith which the) 

 embiace. The society is under 

 the immediate protection of thu 

 emperor, and depends entirely on 

 the Board in St. Petersburgh, to 

 which alone it will give account. 

 \o other local magistracy shall 

 interfere with them; their preach- 

 ers are only under the Board. The 

 internal government of the society 

 is under an administration of the 

 Society of the Jewish Christians, 

 consisting of two superiors and 



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