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of which includes both Protestants and 
Catholics, who would find it very difficult, to 
agree respecting the sort of instruction to 
be communicated. 
The same day we went to the hospital, 
where there are generally about four hundred 
patients, male and female. The wards are 
very clean, and well ventilated, and the 
greatest attention is paid to the comforts of 
the inmates. Over some of the beds a 
black cross was suspended. On inquiring 
the meaning of this, we were informed that 
these patients had been given over by the 
doctors, and had received the last sacrament. 
One of the wards of this hospital is set 
apart for those patients who have known 
better days. 
We next visited the armoury in the palace. 
It contains about eleven thousand muskets, 
a great many pistols and boarding-pikes, and 
