500 Prefent State of the Fews in France and Germany. [July 1, 
He is affited by profeffors worthy of him ; 
among others, by the modeft Tillich. In 
this -fchool they follow the method of 
Peftalozzi, M. Olivier, formerly a col- 
league of Bafedow, and who has given us 
a learned Analyfis of the fyttem of lan- 
guages, and of the manner of teaching 
them. 
_ At Seezen, a town fituate between 
Brunfwick and Géttingen, a college was 
founded in 1801 for the children of the 
Jews, by M. Jacobfohn, who fills a bigh 
office in the fervice of the Duke of Brunf- 
wick, and enjoys the efteem of all ranks. 
He confided the direétion of it to a man of 
learning and zeal, M. Schottlander, coun- 
fellor to the Landgrave of Heffe- Darm- 
ftadt, who is engaged in writing a Hiftory 
of his Nation. There are ten profeflors, 
although the number of ftudents does not 
yet amount to more than fifty ; but it 
daily increafes. 
building and the adminiftration of the 
eftablifhment may ferve as models. There, 
as well as at Deffau, the children are dif- 
tinguifhed by neatnefs and cleanlinefs, by 
good order, and an air of health and con- 
tent. The poor are admitted gratis, and 
the others pay in proportion to their abi- 
lity. They are taught the German, 
French, Hebrew, and Latin languages, 
geography, hiftory, declamation, natural 
hiltory, mathematics, technology, &c.— 
At Seezen they add to the above the 
Greek language and mufic ; and it is in- 
tended foon to eltablifh a ichool of induf- 
try. Each ftudent has a fmall plot of 
ground allotted to him, which he culti- 
vates with his own hands ; and it is part 
of the plan of this fchool to wean them 
from commerce, the fpirit of which is fo 
deeply rooted among the Jews. 
They communicate to the pupils here 
the elements of fuch knowledge as is ne- 
ceffary for every ftation in life, and the 
acquilition of which prepares the wy for 
the development of the greatett talents, 
if they happen to be endowed therewith. 
I have admired the facility with which 
converfation was carried on between the 
profeffors and fome of the pupils, though 
very young, in the French and Latin lan- 
guages, and on various objects of inftruc- 
tion. I have likewife feen them, during 
their hours of recreation, folve very com- 
plicated arithmetical problems, and make 
mathematical demonftrations. ‘Thofe de- 
tails fufficiently evioce the capacity and 
diligence of the pupils, who are all Jews, 
and of the profeffors, fome of whom are 
Jews, and fome Chviftians, and who live 
mojt amicably together. Wish refpect to 
The arrangement of the , 
fuch of the pupils as, from the inferiority 
of their talents, are rendered unfit for the 
purfuits of literature and the fciences, the 
Duke of Brunfwick has lately taken fome 
wife meafures to facilitate to them the 
learning, and to enfuréto them the free 
exercife, of arts and handicrafts: 
On the front of the new fynagogue for 
the College of Seezen it is propofed to have 
two hands joined together, with an in- 
{cription, the obje&t of which is to remind 
Chriftians and Jews that they worfhip the 
fame God. 
Befides the afcetical books with which 
they are provided, M. Schottlander has 
compiled for the ule of the ftudents a Col- 
le€tion of Poems and Moral Precepts, 
taken from various authors. The Tal- 
mud, among other works, has been put 
under contribution for this purpofe. M. 
Schottlander has inferted in his book Mai- 
monides’s Thirteen Fundamental Laws of 
the Jewifh Faith ; a fhort and well-written 
Hiftory of the Hebrew Language ; the 
fecond canto of the Moyfiade, an epic po- 
em by Hartwig Vezelize, a Rabbin, lately 
decealed at Hamburg; and other in- 
ftructive and interefting pieces. 
In Germany the moft happy effets are 
expected to refult from thefcfzkv 7° of the 
Jews. They are unwearied in eir en- 
deavour to merit admiffion to a full par- 
ticipation of all civil rights. This has 
been granted them already in France.— 
But on the other fide of the Rhine they 
have not been able to obtain the object of 
their wifhes, notwithftanding the efforts of 
the learned and refpectable M. Dchm. 
There feems to be, however, a gradual 
approximation towards a better order of 
things. Already, through the zeal of 
Mefits. Jacobfohn and Breitenbach, twen- ~ 
ty-fix German princes have repaired an 
outrage done to humanity, by abolifh- 
ing that infamous toll which put the 
Jews upon a level with cloven-footed 
animals. 
In a German fate on the right bank of 
the Rhine, the Government had been he- 
fitating about the fuppreffion of this toll, 
and even pretended to fubject to it the 
Jews dwelling on the left fide. But this 
determination was foon changed, when 
they. were informed cf-the fpirited con- 
duct of M. Jambon St. André, the prefect 
of Mont Tonnere, who propofed, by way 
of reprifal, that the fubjeéts of the Ger- 
man Prince (the Jews only excepted,) 
fhould be obliged to psy the fame toll 
when they entered Franee. 
_ Wil it be believed, that in the roth 
century there exits a republic where pub- 
lic 
