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      In an official document , dated the 2 d of December , is an extraordinary instance of petty vindictive persecution directed against the unfortunate Israelites by the Court of Rome . The most Reverend Father Inquisitor of the Holy Office of Ancona , Senigallia , &c ., has , " in obedience to the commands of his

      Holiness Leo XII ., "' issued a circular , ordering all Jews to dismiss their Christian servants , females as well as males , not excepting such of the former as may be employed as nurses . The Papal Bull also prohibits the introducing into the houses of Jews any Christians for the purpose of

      lighting fires and candles on Friday evenings , on Saturdays , or on any Hebrew festival whatever . The violators of this Inquisitorial order are liable to severe penalties , to be inflicted " at the pleasure of the Supreme Holy Congregation . "

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      Nov . 20 . The Spanish Bishops are publishing , one after the other , Charges to their clergy and their dioceses , prohibiting the perusal of Portuguese Journals , and denouncing the Portuguese Charter as an impious , damnable heresy .

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      At Stade , a considerable town in Hanover , the following notice has been published by the Bailiff , with the approbation of the Cabinet ministry : — " That foreign missionaries are prohibited from holding religious meetings and delivering religious discourses ; aud that none but the parochial clergy and superior ecclesiastical authorities shall be permitted to distribute religious writings . ' * What does this mean ?

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      In the entire extent of Germany , comprising a population of about thirty-six millions of souls , there are twenty-two universities , viz .

      Prague , the oldest , founded in .... 1348 Vienna . 1365 Heidelberg , Grand Duchy of Baden 1368 Wurtzburg , Bavaria 1403 Leipsig , Saxony 1409 Rostock , Mecklinburg Schwerin .. 1419 Friburg , Grand Duchy of Baden .. 1450 Greifswaid , Prussia 1456 Basle , Switzerland . 1460 Tubigen , Wurtemberg 1477 Marburg , Hesse Cassel 1527 Koenigsberg , Prussia 1544 Jena , Grand Duchy of Weimar ,,, « 1558 Giessen , Hesse Cassel ...... ... 1607 Kiel , Denmark 1665 Halle , Prussian Saxony 1694 Breslau , Silesia 1702 Gdttingeii , Hanover 1734 Eslangen , Bavaria 1743 Landshut , Bavaria 1803 ( This is to be removed to Munich . ) Berlin 1810 Bonn , Prussian territory on the Rhine 1818

      Six of these universities pertain to Prussia ; three to Bavaria ; two to the Austrian States ; two to the Grand Duchy of Baden ; two to the Electorate of Hesse Cassel ; and one to each of the following States—Saxony , Wurtemberg , Denmark , Hanover , the Grand Duchy of Mecklinburg Schweriu , the Grand Duchy of Saxe Weimar , aud Switzerland , At pre-

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      144 Intelligence \—foreign

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      A Society has been formed at Amsterdam for the cultivation of the Hebrew Language and Literature . The numbers which have appeared of the proceedings of this Society are said to be full of poetry and philosophical dissertations , distinguished by pure , correct , and elegant Hebrew , and by a profound knowledge of Hebrew antiquities .

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      ITALY .

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      HOLLAND .

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      HANOVER .

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      SPAIN .

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      We owe it to truth and to the character of the age to state , that the " reported burning of a Jew" at Valencia , is denied by the Spanish Consul at Gibraltar , on the authority of official communications from the Captain-General of the Kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia . The French papers continue , however , to assort that some person , ' a school-master , was actually put to death at Valencia for heresy .

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      It seems that a Dr . Onofrius Concioli at Rome , has denounced Cranioiogy or Phreuology " as contrary to morality aud to the Catholic Religion , being founded on the most absurd . fatalism , and on the erroneous doctrine of Predestination . ** All Catholic Phrenologists must , therefore , teach their system , as the Jesuits did Newton's Principia , with a salvo . — Morning Chronicle ,

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      The Papal government has published an edict granting to authors , artists and engravers , the legal property of their works for their natural . lives , and to their heirs for twelve years afterwards .

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      GERMANY .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 144, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/64/