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sian, German, French, Greeks, Jews, Americans, and Poles. 
It contains a French and Italian theatre ; a lyceum found- 
ed by the duke de Richelieu, which affords numerous ad- 
vantages ; schools of law, navigation, commerce, &c. eight 
churches, two thousand houses and numerous public build- 
ings. In summer, Odessa is visited by a great number of 
families from the north of Russia and Poland, for the pur- 
pose of sea bathing. The population of the suburbs is con- 
tinually increasing. : 
20. The Greek Seminary founded at St. Petersburgh. in 
1775 by Catharine II, acquires every day, fresh impor- 
tance. It educates about 200 young Greek and Albanian 
officers. There are 25 professors. But, besides military 
science, the French, Italian, and German languages are 
taught. When the students have finished their course, 
they may choose either the station of an officer, the place 
of interpreter in the colleges of St. Petersburgh or Moscow, 
or a return, to their own country. There are now in the 
Seminary many young people from Scio, Lesbos and Nax- 
os. 
21. A House of Refuge was founded in the month of April 
1817 in the Rue Gres Saint Jacques at Paris, and has been 
eyer since supported by charitable donations, for the pur- 
pose of receiving from the prisons, those juvenile offenders 
whose good conduct while in confinement, may entitle them 
to this favour. The Refuge is placed under the immedi- 
ate direction ofa person who generously offered to devote 
himself to this work of mercy. The boys are taught in six 
work shops directed by skilful masters. Cabinet makers, 
shoe makers, joiners, tinmen, painters on metal, workers in 
bronze, are here in full activity. The exposition which is 
annually made at St. Louis of the products of these children’s 
labour, proves their rapid progress and improvement. An 
experience of five years leaves no doubt of the success of the 
institution. Since 1817, one hundred and eighteen children 
have been received from the prisons. Their conduct has 
responded to the solicitude of those who have not ceased t 
watch over them. Ifa few among them who have deceiv- 
ed the expectations of the administration, have been sent 
back to the authority, the greater number have justified 
