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The sums expended in buildings, previously to the 1st of January, 1806, amounted to 21,640/. and the number of students which these buildings were capable of accommodating was 200. The additional grant of 5,OCOL. made by parliament in 1807, was intended to provide more commodious lodgings for these 200 students, and also to procure accommodations for a larger number. The buildings, as they now exist, are calculated to receive 250 students. The establishment not only affords lodgings for the students, but commons and instruction, and supplies them in the public halls with coals and candles during the hours of study. All otherexpenses are borne by the students, and are estimated at about 201. a

year. The whole recess enjoyed by

the members of the college with the exception of a few days at each of the three great festivals, is two months; and even during that period the students are not allowed to quit college without special leave. At other times, both masters and students are obliged by statute to strict residence. Before admission each student must produce certificates of his age, parentage, and baptism, and of his hav ing taken the oath of allegiance, together with a recommendation from his diocesan; and must sign a declaration binding him to a faithful observance of the college statutes. The following is the general order of each day :-MORNING: five o'clock, first bell; half past five, common prayer; six, study in halls; half past seven, mass; eight, breakfast; nine, study in halls; ten, class; half past eleven, recreation; twelve, study in halls. AFTERNOON: half past one, class; three, dinner; five, class for modern languages; six, study in halls; eight, supper; nine, common prayer; half past nine, all retire in silence to their chambers. The general course of study embraces humanity, Greek, belles-lettres, logic, metaphysics, ethics, elementary mathematics, algebra, geometry, conic sections, astronomy, mechanics, optics, hydraulics, chemistry, &c. &c.; and the modern languages, particularly English, Irish, and French. The course of divinity is divided into dogmatical and moral. VOL. I. New Series.

The first comprehends three different sets of lectures: 1. De Religione; 2. De Incarnatione et Ecclesia; 3. De Sacramentis in genere, et de Eucharistia. The books used are, Hook, Bailly, Duvoisin, Le Grandt Tournely, N.Alexander, and P.Collet Comment. Tournilii. The moral course is also divided into three branches : 1. De Actibus Humanis, de Peccatis, de Matrimonio; 2. De Legibus, de Virtutibus, de Sacramento Pœnitentiæ ; 3. De Jure et Justitia, de Contractibus, &c. The books used in this course are Paul Antoine, and Petrus Collet. These the professors explain and the scholars study. A portion of the New Testament is committed to memory every week. Ibid.

A Prayer appointed to be used in the

Swedish churches during the war. "ALMIGHTY, just, and eternal God, look mercifully upon thy people, who put their hope and trust in thee alone-We implore thy protection and defence; for faithless enemies have unjustly made war upon us. Thou art just, O God; what an encouraging consolation this, in our rightful cause. Thou art omnipotent: what invinci ble aid may we not then look for!Support,guard, strengthen, and endue with thy special grace and blessing, our good and beloved sovereign, under all his cares for the welfare and defence of his kingdom. Grant him prosperity and success in all his proceedings and endeavors to frustrate the wicked plots of our enemies.Inspire, O Almighty God, all our hearts with one mind; so that, with the bravery and courage of our forefathers, we may go forth hand in hand, and with united strength, for the defence of all that is dear to us-our be. loved native land! and manfully resist the insidious foes of its prosperi ty and independence; drive back the enemies from our frontiers, crown our armies with victory, and restore peace and quiet to our habitations.Be thou with us, O God, as thou wast with our forefathers: they implored thy help in the hour of danger, and thou didst hear their prayers; we will then never forget to give glory to thy name, O thou Most High.We will teach our children that thou

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alone art the Lord, mighty to save, in whom thy people may place their certain hope and trust. Vouchsafe to hear us, and accept our supplications, for the sake of thy dear Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ.-Amen."

INDIA.

Ibid.

Some particulars respecting the Bur

mans.

The following particulars respecting the manners, customs, and religion of the Burmans, were communi. cated by the Missionaries to their brethren at Serampore, agreeably to the instructions they received previous to their departure.

The Burmans are Hindoos, as well as the Bengalees, but of a different sect, and their religious superstitions appear to be widely different. To change their religion is no disgrace among them. Some few of the natives have embraced the Catholic religion, but we cannot find that any persecution has ever been excited, on this account.

The government, we are informed, never meddles with any thing that bears the name of religion, but grants privileges to all alike. From hence we may take encouragement to hope, that we may be permitted to erect the standard of the Redeemer's cross in this country.

The Catholics have three separate places of worship in Rangoon, but at present only two priests. One is

lately gone to Europe to be ordained a bishop. One of the two who are here, came from Europe; he knows nothing of the Burman language. The other understands it perfectly, and preaches in it once a fortnight: he is a native of Rangoon. We cannot find that they are very zealous about proselyting the natives. If any person wishes to embrace their religion, he goes to the priest, and makes known his design. The priest asks him a few questions, to which he gives a reply, on which the priest baptizes him. The Catholic congre. gations are not very large,

The Brahmans in this country have no claim to the priesthood, nor does it appear that they concern themselves much about religion. In gen eral they are men of learning, and profess medicine, astronomy, divina.

tion, &c. by which they procure a livelihood. In these respects they have a considerable degree of influence among the natives, from the highest to the lowest, and are looked npon as a kind of oracles. They have a cast, and highly value it but, except in this case, no such thing exists in the country. They will partake of food with any person; and though mal, yet if they can procure animal food their laws forbid their killing an anithey will eat it without scruple.

If proper allowance be made for a heathen government, foreigners will laws of police. have no reason to complain of the In some respects

the natives themselves do not. The indeed, they enjoy advantages which principal thing, which excites their jealousy respecting foreigners is, an apprehension of their having some political end in view; and this has been the case with regard to the English. But if a person be well known, and conduct himself in a proper manner, he will have very little to fear. spected as others. No one can leave Female foreigners are as much recapacity, without a pass from the this country, unless in some official obtained for thirteen rupees for each government; but this may readily be person. There is a law which pro the country; but this is sometimes hibits the egress of females born in superseded by an application to some Foreigners are permitted to travel member of the royal family at Ava. much more difficult here than in Beninto any part of the country; but it is gal, for want of proper conveyance.

In no capacity could any one reside in Rangoon with less suspicion than that of a teacher of religion. Persons sustaining this character, whethhave more privileges by order of er christian, mahomedan, or pagan, government, than those in any other ject, the Burmans have no suspicion. capacity. If religion only be the ob

appear in some respects rather supeAs to civilization, the Burmans rior to the Bengalees. There are but few of the men but what can read general are not so well educated. and write, though the women in The children are taught by the their own houses. priests, gratis, who keep schools at

Ibid.

State of the Jews in France, previous to the meeting of the Parisian Sanhedrim in 1806. [See Panoplist p. 224, vol. iii.]

THE Jews, have been established in France from the days of the ancient Gauls. They were then, as they are now, traders, and one branch of their trade was the purchase of children to sell again. The Gauls at that time paid a heavy poll tax, and the child in the cradle paid as much as his father: the consequence was, that an individual did not marry, or he exposed his children to avoid paying the tax, or he sold his children to the Jews, who sold them again to strangers.

The Jews were banished from France and re-admitted several times. They were expelled by Childebert in 533; by Dagobert an hundred years afterwards; by Philip I. in 1096; by Philip Augustus in 1382. When admitted, they were considered as stock on the grounds of their owners; the lords sold them, exchanged them, assigned them for the payment of their debts. The dowry of Margaret of Provence, widow of Louis IX. was assigned on the Jews, who paid her quarterly, 219 livres, 7 sous, 6 derniers. The goods and chattels of a few belong to his lord, say the Establishments of St. Louis; a baron could not be deprived of his Jews, any more than of his colts or horses.

The Council of Lateran, in 1215,

ordered every Jew to wear a small wheel on his breast, to distinguish him from christians. Louis IX. or. dered this mark to be of a yellow colour, and to be worn both before and behind. Philip III. in 1227, added a horn on the bonnet. After enduring these and other degradations, during two or three hundred years, they were banished for ever by Philip le Rel; but Louis X. squeezing from them the enormous sum of 122,500 livres, admitted them into France, for 12 years only, with liberty to redeem their synagogues, their burial grounds and their books, except the Talmud: they were, however, oblig ed to wear the wheel, to abstain from usury, and from disputation on matters of faith. Philip V. confirmed this permission; Philip VI. revoked it; John granted another for twenty years; Charles V. another for sixteen years; Charles VI. banished them wholly in 1394: since which time they have been prohibited from settling in Paris, where they had occupied the market places, and seven or eight streets entirely. It was established as a maxim, by that great jurisconsultus, Gallus, that to lie with a few was the same thing as to lie with a dog; and, on this principle, if a christian woman had connexion with a Jew, or a christian man with a Jewess, the christian criminal was Ibid. burnt alive.

*The annual tax per head for Fews was the same as that for horned cattle,

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE.

RUSSIA.

thinly peopled, and bordering on the territories of so many uncivilized

Scots colony on the mountains of Cau- tribes of mahometans and heathens,

casus.

HIS Imperial Majesty has been pleased to grant a very remarkable charter to the colony of Scotchmen who have been settled, for the last four years, in the mountains of Caucasus. The rights and privileges accorded to these Scotchmen, who form a detached settlement in a district so

are intended to increase their activity in extending trade and manufactures, and to place them, in respect to their immunities, on the same footing with an Evangelical Society of Sarepta. They are to have the requisite additional allotments of land, as near as possible to the village which they have already founded. Of these his

Majesty secures to them the perpetual possession, promising that no part of the tract aliotted to their community shall ever pass by sale, mortgage, or bill of emption, or on any other pretence, into the occupation of strangers. They are exempt from all imposts or burthens for thirty years; at the end of which period they are, instead of poll tax, to pay 15 copecks of rent for each acre of arable land, and to pay their proportion of the land tax, but to remain exempted from all other imposts, from the civil and military service of the state, and from the billeting of soldiers in any of their villages. The free exercise of their religion is confirmed to them, and the internal affairs and police of the settlement shall for ever be administered by a magistrate chosen from among themselves. His passports will be a sufficient authority for them to travel and traffic in every part of the empire, but not for leaving the country. The chief magistrate is not, without special permission, to admit to the privileges of a colonist any Russian subject, but is at liberty to receive, as settlers, Kabardans, Circassians, and every other description of mahometans and heathens, being freemen, and taking the oath of allegiance to his Majesty. These may also become converts to the religion of the colony. The colonists may also buy

and keep Kabardan, Circassian, and other mahometan and heathenish slaves. They may freely exercise every sort of trade, art, or manufac ture, and within their own limits, distil and vend spirituous liquors. The colony is placed under the special protection of the civil government of Caucasus. Panorama.

Phenomenon.

On the 13th of March last, (1807) in the afternoon, the inhabitants of the canton of Juchnow, in the government of Smolensk, were alarmed by an uncommonly loud clap of thunder. At the moment of this explosion two peasants belonging to the village of Peremeschajew, in the canton of Wereja, being out in the fields, perceived at the distance of forty paces, a black stone of considerable magnitude falling to the earth, which it penetrated to a considerable depth beneath the snow. It was dug up and found to be of an oblong square figure, of a black color, not unlike cast iron, very smooth throughout; resembling a coffin on one side, and weighing about 160 pounds. This meteor stone was sent by the governor of the province to the minister of the interior, count Kotschubei, by whom it has been transmitted for examination to the Imperial Academy of Sciences, at St. Petersburg.

Ibid.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.
ORIGINAL.
Bronson, and others. Hopkins and
Earle, Philadelphia, and Farrand,
Mallory, and Co. Boston.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature, and in the Court for the trial of Impeachments and for the Cor. rection of Errors, in the state of New York.

By William Johnson, counsellor at law. Vol. 4, part 1, February term, 1809. N. York; I. Riley.

The American Law Journal and Miscellaneous Repertory, No. 4. of vol. I. and No. 1. of vol. II. By John E. Hall, Esq. Boston; Farrand, Mallory, and Co. 1809.

Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, No. 5, for May, 1809, with an elegant engraving of Gen. Sir John Moore, K. B. By E.

A Sermon delivered at the installation of Rev. Horace Holley to the pastoral care of the Church and Society in Hollis street. Boston, March 8, 1809. By Joseph Eckley, D.D. Boston. J. Belcher,

Reports of the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, versus John Smith, Esq. Marshal of the U. States for the district of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia; David Hogan. 1809.

NEW EDITIONS. A general and connected view of the Prophecies, relative to the con

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Volume X, part 2, being the 20th number of Dr. Rees' new Cyclopœdia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is received and for delivery at No. 1, Cornhill, Boston, by Lemuel Blake, agent.

Theological Tracts, No. 2. Bell on the Lord's Supper. Boston; W. Wells.

The New Latin Primer, containing first, Lessons for Construing and Parsing, which exemplify all the Rules of Adam's Latin Syntax. Second, Extracts from the Minor Latin Classics, with literal translations.Third, The first part of Lynes' Latin Primer. By William Bigelow, Master of the Public Latin Grammar School in Boston, MassachusettsSecond Edition, with improvements. Boston, J. West & Co. 1809.

Solemn Reasons for declining to adopt the Baptist Theory and Practice: In a Series of Letters to a Baptist Minister. ByNoah Worcester, A. M. Pastor of a Church in Thornton. Second Edition. Charlestown, Mass. Samuel T. Armstrong. 1809.

An Essay on the history of Civil Society by Adam Ferguson, LL. D. Professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. The Seventh edition. Boston; Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss. 1809.

The History of the Church of Christ, in 4 volumes. By Joseph Milner, M. A. Boston ; Farrand, Mallory and Co.

Miscellaneous Classics, vol. 14, being the 4th vol. of Dr. Goldsmith's Works,ornamented with a very fine engraving, executed by Leney. Boston; Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss. 1809.

Child's Memorial,containing an account of the Early Piety and Happy Death of Miss D. Doudney, of Portsea, Eng. to which is added an account of Miss Sarah Barrow. Charles town; Samuel T. Armstrong. 1809. The Holy Bible containing the Old

and New Covenant, commonly called the Old and New Testament; translated from the Greek. By Charles Thompson, late Secretary to the Congress of the United States. In four volumes complete. Philadelphia; Jane Aitkin. 1809.

IN THE PRESS.

E. Larkin of Boston, has in the press, to be published in July, in 2 vols. in extra boards, The Letters of Pliny, the Consul. With occasional remarks. By William Melmoth, Esq.

Thomas A. Ronalds, of New York, has in the press, shortly to be published, Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, to be printed on fine wove paper and new type, price 1 25.

A. Finley and W. H. Hopkins, Phi-. ladelphia, have in the press, The Life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoirs pour la vie de Petrarch. By Mrs. Dobson. First American, from the sixth London edition. To be accompanied with an elegant engraving of the "Fountain of Vaucluse." two large 18mo. volumes of about 400 pages, fine paper, at 3 dollars, handsomely bound and lettered.

In

O. C. Greenleaf has in press, Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter-by the Rev. Montague Pennington, M. A. Vicar of Northborn in Kent, her Nephew and Executor. One vol. 8vo. on superfine paper, new type,&c. 2,25 extra boards.

WORKS PROPOSED. Hopkins and Earle of Philadelphia, propose publishing on the first Jan. next, and to be regularly continued once a year, The Annual Medical Register, compiled by a Society of Physicians of London; with an Appendix, comprehending a History of Medicine in the United States, for the year. By N. Chapman, M. D. A prospectus, &c. of the work will appear in a few days.

John McCahan, Huntingdon, Penn. proposes to republish, a Treatise upon the Life of Faith. By William Romin, M A. Lecturer of St. Dunstan's in the West, London. From the fourth London edition.

Manning and Loring of this town, propose to publish, by subscription, a volume of original Sermons, on va

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