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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. [Aug. 



18. Manheim. — Letters from 

 Gottingen announce, as the 

 final result of the events which 

 have taken place in that city, 

 that the University has lost 

 nearly half of its students, the 

 number of whom is reduced from 

 1,200 to about 600. In these 

 600 are comprised all those of 

 the kingdom of Hanover, of the 

 Duchy of Brunswick, and the 

 major part of those of the Duchy 

 of Nassau. The latter Duchy 

 not having an university of its 

 own, that of Gottingen has been 

 marked out for a year as the 

 one where the youth of Nassau 

 should study. The number of 

 foreign students who have re- 

 turned to Gottingen does not 

 exceed 100. 



On the evening of the 19th, 

 at seven o'clock, a most shocking 

 accident happened in Furnival's- 

 inn-court, Holborn. A great 

 number of small children were 

 playing in the court, when a 

 wall, which the workmen were 

 taking down in the old buildings, 

 preparatory to the new improve- 

 ments in the inn, suddenly gave 

 way; happily those who observed 

 it escaped ; some were severely 

 bruised; but the poor children, 

 who were caught and buried in 

 the mass of bricks and rubbish, 

 were some of them taken out at 

 eiglit o'clock in so bad a state 

 they are not expected to survive; 

 one child was quite dead. The 

 number buried in the ruins was 

 not known, but the v/orkmen 

 continued digging at a late hour 

 last night. 



In the course of last month, 

 the Bishop of Dijon received the 

 following Circular from the 

 Minister of the Interior : — 



" My Lord ; — For some time 

 past the reports of the Prefects 

 have portrayed striking examples 

 of the excesses to which super- 

 stitious ideas may lead. Pre- 

 tended sorceries have occasioned 

 crimes and misdemeanors, which 

 now occupy the tribunals, and 

 many individuals have been sen- 

 tenced to ignominious punish- 

 ments. 



" You will doubtless perceive, 

 my Lord, ' that it is of the utmost 

 ' importance to instruct the igno- 

 ' rant and credulous, and especi- 

 ' ally the peasantry.' 



" The Civil Authority is at 

 this moment occupied in devising 

 measures to dissipate similar 

 errors. I request, on your part, 

 that you will promulgate such 

 instructions as you may deem 

 requisite on a subject equally 

 important to religion and public 

 order. 



" Receive, my Lord, the assu- 

 rance of my high consideration. 



" The Minister Secretary of 

 State and Interior. 



(Signed) " Laine.'' 



On the Receipt of this letter, 

 the Bishop addressed a pastoral 

 letter to the different curates and 

 inhabitants of the departments 

 of the Cote d'Or and Haute 

 Marne, in which he congratulated 

 them, that the errors to which 

 his instructions were especially 

 applicable did not prevail in the 

 communes under his jurisdiction. 



Constitution for the G'ond 

 Duchy of Baden. — Charles, by 

 the grace of God, Grand Duke 

 of I3aden, Duke of Zahringen, 

 Landgrave of Nellenburgh, Count 

 of Hanau, &c. 



In the year 1816, when we 

 once more announced to our 



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