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      rector and four Jewish professors , who will not be admitted until after having been examined according to the regulations .

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      NORWAY . It is delightful to witness the spread of just and generous principles of civil legislation and policy . Norway is not unworthy of a place in refined and improving Europe . A work has lately

      come out from a Norwegian press , and in the Norwegian tongue , O ? i the Punishment of Death , by M . P . A . Hexbe rg . This author declares against Capital punishments , and supports his enlightened and humane theory with great ability . Without appearing to aim a blow at the Calvinistic scheme

      of theology , he contends that the principle that the law demands satisfaction is detestable , and that the principle of retaliation is still worse . How long will sanguinary systems of faith continue to countenance sanguinary forms of policy ?

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      TURKEY . There has just appeared the first publication on science in Turkey : it is a work of 3 G 0 pages in folio , with 56 engraved plates , printed at Constantinople , 1820 . It is in the Turkish language : the translated title is , Mirror

      of Bodies , or the Anatomy of Man , a icork upon Anatomy , Medicine , and the Healing Art , by Chani-Zadeh , Member of the U 16 mah . ( The Utemah is a religious and political order , charged with the maintenance of religion and the laws . ) The author professes to derive his materials from

      French , German and English works . His book could not have appeared but in consequence of a hhatti-cherif or edict of the Grand Seignior , nor could his sublimity have issued such an edict except in the character of Caliph , or Supreme Head of the Church . The plates are rude , but the anatomy is exact . The stvle is said to be clear

      and concise . Ihe French literati pride themselves upon being the chief teachers of the Turks in science , as they have been in fortification and the construction of a military marine .

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      Regii Belqici , or Latin Memoirs of the Third &lass of the Royal Institute of Holland , has recently appeared : in the Contents we observe a Memoir hy M . Van Lennep , on Justin's Statement ( Lib . xxxvi . Cap . 2 ) concern ing the Origin of the Jews in Damascus

      with Remarks upon it by M . ffillmet y and also a Letter of M . Bilderdyk ' s ' entitled De Collatione Legum Mosaic carum et Romanantm , necnon Specimen Emendutionis Edicti Imperatorum Diocletiani et Maximiani contra Manickceos .

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      Three medical professors at Groningen ( Barker , Woltiiers and Hendriks ) have revived the pretensions of Animal Magnetism , which it was thought that Franklin , Bailly , Lavoisier , &e . had laid for ever , in a joint work , entitled By drag en tot , &cc , " Present State of Animal Magnetism in our Country . "

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      State of Religion in Holland . ( From the Christian Disciple , Boston , March , 1821 . ) [ We think our readers will be interested by the following account of the

      state of religion in Holland , with which we have been favoured by a gentleman of the highest respectability , a native of that country . It was addressed in a private letter to one of the

      conductors of the Christian Disciple , and leave has been subsequently obtained for its publication . ] I have received from Holland various Reviews and Journals , published since I left that country in 1817 , and

      observe in them , that religious opinions have undergone , and are undergoing , a great change from what they formerly were . It appears that a synod of the Protestant Church , for the kingdom of the Netherlands , was convened in 1817 , and that among other enaet-

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      418 Notices of Foreign Literature-

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      HOLLAND . The second volume of Comment atlones Latinae Tcrtite Classes Institute

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      The following is the title of a late publication here — IVesselii Alberti Van Hen gel . Oratio de Religionis Christiance Disciplind , &c . " On the Helps

      that the Christian Religion furnishes to true Eloquence / ' M . fan Hen-gel succeeds M . Nuys Van Klinhenberg in the chair of Theology and of Ecclesiastical History , at the Athenaeum of Amsterdam : and this is his inaugural Discourse .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/38/