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aiari, German, French, Greeks, Jew*, Americans, and Poles- 

 It contains a French and Italian theatre ; a Ijxeum found- 

 ed by the duke de Richeheu, which affords numerous ad- 

 vantages ; schools of law, navigation, commerce, &tc. 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 

 ever 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 of a 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 to 

 watch over them. If a few among them who have deceiv- 

 ed the expectations of the administration, have been sent 

 back to the authority, the greater number have justified 



