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    France , arast accession of numbers will be made from Prussia and Poland . In the latter country they are generally rich and great money-lenders to the L , ords , the Farmers and others . People who suspect the motives of the French government relative to £ he Jews , urge that their interest-being once

    obtained in favour of France , they by their extensive connexions , their wealth and partly by interest , will be exactly that to the ne < wy which the Jesuits were to the § ld government of France . Some of the J ews in France and Germany are endeavouring to write themselves into favour and consequence . A small work in He brew 3 which has been translated into

    French , entitled , " Who i % th ? s > but an Israelitish Christian ?* ' was lately advertised in the Moniteur , and therefore cannot be disagreeable to the French government , particularly as the author , who is a Lieutenant h > the invalids , advises the young Israelites to range themselves under the standard of Napoleon , that they may regain Jerusalem and

    rebuild the Temple . A very recent address from the Jews at Frankfort to their brethren , exhorting them to join in the present measures , styles Napoleon their Illustrious Prince * and quotes the twentysecond Psalm , y . 30 , 31 , as upon the point of being fulfilled . The Prince Primate , on the 4 th of January , published a decree in which he abolishes all those

    humiliating distinctions , by which the Jews in that city used to be stigmatized . — The Jews at Frankfort have addressed a letter to the Sanhedrim at . Paris on this occasion . It is but justice to the Jews , to acknowledge that the learning and liberality of sentiment exhibited by several of their nation upon the Continent ,

    particularly in Prussia , have probably paved the way for the notice that has lately been taken of them , and at the same time proved them worthy of the attention paid to tl ^ em , and the indulgence promised them . —In Berlin , for several years past , men of learning and genius among the Jews have been enjoying singular honours . The late Moses

    Mendelsohn for the force of his reasoning , v / as surnamed the Jewish Socrates ; for the amenity o £ his diction , the Jewish Plato . — Bloch , a Jewish physician , was the , firi > t naturalist of the age : Xlerz is a professor , with 400 auditors : Mainon a profound metaphysician- There nre Jewish poets and Jewish artists of eminence , and ., which perhaps exist no where but

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    in Berlin , a Jewish academy of Science ?» and a Jewish Literary Journal , composed in Hebrew . —( See P ^ uriery or the Sketches of the times , VoL-II . 249 . )—* - A large number of Jews at Berlin , heads of families of respectable character , have

    subscribed and published a letter to M . Teller , Provost ofthe Upper Consistory , ( the department of government which has the superintendence of ecclesiastical affairs , ) in which they deelare , that being convinced the laws of Moses are no

    longer binding upon them , as not being adapted to their circumstances at this day , they are willing and ready to become Christians as far as relates to the moral doctrines of Christianity , provided they shall not be required to believe the miraculous part <> f the Christian creed ) and above alt 9 the divinity of Jesus Christ ;

    and provided they may be admitted to participate in all the rights and privileges enjoyed by the members of the established religion Their confession of faith would be something less than Unitarianism , but approaching nearly to it . They ask M-Teller ' s advice on this plan , and * whether he thinks

    it practicable r M . Teller has published an answer , in which he Informs them , that they do well to believe as much of Christianity as they can , and that if they cannot in conscience believe more , they do well to profess it : but as to the question whether their fragment of faith ought to entitle them to share the civil

    and political privileges enjoyed exclusively by entire Christians , it is not his province , but belongs to the civil authority of the country to decide . — -M . De Luc , a celebrated chemist anc \ theologian , has published a letter to these Jews , in which he boldly advances to meet them on the ground which M . Teller declines : he tells them that far froni

    scrupling points of Christian doctrine * they ought not even to abandon ttc standard of Moses : that the history of the earth , and its present appearances , are the strongest of all possible testimo * nies to the truth of the Mosaic history ^ and that if they will only take the pains to be better natural Philosophers , they will not be so ready to renounce their faith as Jews . —There have been

    numerous pamphlets written and published upon , this subject , ? which make , as the French term it ,, a great sensation in the North of Germany . ( See JLetter . s from an American resident abroad on various topics of foreign literature , 3 cc . )

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    Politico-Religious Intelligence . - 107

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/51/