482 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1818. 



The ci-devant collegiate, but 

 (to use a violent Germanism) in 

 eighteen hundred secularized Ca- 

 tholic church is an awkward build- 

 ing, of that sort of impure Gothic, 

 with a minaret steeple, so uni- 

 versal in this part of Germany. 

 It is now the parochial church, 

 the foundation being united to 

 the Gymnasium or Lyceum, the 

 professors of which have stepped 

 into the ancient stalls, and officiate 

 at the mass. Their salaries, 

 though, like other ecclesiastical 

 emoluments by no means enor- 

 mous, are somewhat raised since 

 the foundation of the college in 

 the fifteenth century ; when the 

 worthy Provost had one hundred 

 florins), between nine and ten 

 pounds), a year, the Dean half 

 the sum, and so in proportion. 

 The modern priests of Baden 

 would probably consider the old 

 statutes of the founder as unrea- 

 sonable, and obsolete as his sala- 

 ries ; one of them enacting that 

 none of the choir shall laugh or 

 make faces in service time ; that 

 no Prebend go in ironed wooden 

 shoes into the choir ; and " that 

 if any shall behave himself un- 

 priestlike, be it in ladies, gaming, 

 or other gross cause, the chapter 

 shall not pay him his salary, be 

 it money, fruit, or wine, until he 

 give up concubinatuni publicum, 

 gaming, or other matter for which 

 he was suspended." The church, 

 which was like the castle, and 

 most of the considerable buildings 

 in the country, damaged in the 

 devastation by the French in 

 1689, presents nothing remarkable 

 but the monuments of the Catholic 

 Margraves of Bn ien. A bene- 

 factress of the church is recorded 

 b^ an inscription modestly begin- 



ning " Here lies N. I." but after- 

 wards explaining that she had 

 bestowed 5,000 florins, under an 

 express injunction of concealment 

 of her name. Surely there is 

 some coquetry in the modesty of 

 Madame N. I., whose bounty 

 becomes known to every visitor 

 of the church from the peculiarity 

 of this record ; whereas the simple 

 statement of her name would have 

 effectually answered the object of 

 attracting no notice. 



The Lyceum, or Foundation 

 School, was formerly an institu- 

 tion of the Jesuits, who, on the 

 dissolution of their order, con- 

 trived, by intrigues, and exciting 

 the popular spirit in their favour, 

 to retain possession of it for some 

 time in spite of the government. 

 At first a single secular teacher 

 of philosophy was introduced, 

 but found their cabals too hot to 

 remain. The celebrated Martin 

 Wierhl was then placed in his 

 stead, whom they involved in 

 disputes on his philosophical 

 tenets, which were referred to six 

 Universities. Wierhl was, how- 

 ever, protected by the Margrave 

 Charles Frederic, and the Jesuits 

 were at last driven out. 



There is at Baden a neat small 

 convent, with its little church, of 

 nuns of the Order of the Holy- 

 Sepulchre, who originally came 

 from Liege, and who have avoided 

 secularization, in latter days, by 

 undertaking a school for poor 

 girls of the place. They have 

 also a few boarders, of higher 

 rank, who pay little more than 

 eleven or twelve louis a-year for 

 board and education- The con- 

 vent has ita own baths, and the 

 nuns are strict in not showing 

 themselves. 



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