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a CAPT Pefore the inſtit

n of the Friendly Societies at Sunbuxy, were at two fhilling

and ninepence, ſome times at three E and ſixpence», in the pound. Since the‘inſtitution of thoſe ſocieties, the poor-rates oï Sun- bury have been diminiſhed to one ſhillin and úixpence in the pound.

In the year 1793, were living, in the dioceſe of Koflron:a, in the Ruſſian em- pire, four P rſons, of whom the youngeſt was an hun dred years of age,—in che dioceſe of Niſcegorod;, 28 perſons of’ 109 years ON Ae dioceſe of Riaeſan, 18 perl

and ninepence, or even one ſhilling

ASA upwards,—in thé Ns, each above 100 years old,—in the dioceſe of Roſtow, 3 perſons, each of whom had completed the age of 199 years,—in that of Wizika,40 perſons 100 years E and up maa died in St. Peterſhurgh, at the

An ¿nſlituli /1 Was», Not 1 Mg lince;‘formed at the Pruan capital, nefit of the artiſans of Berlin and't otſdam. Tt is on the fame principles as our Friendly Societies, Tts er, only to temporary relief. Perſons not contributors» to be occaſio Lt A relieved from it. But, only regular contributors, to tne amount of about one guinea annually, are permitted to h ave a voice in the dire&ion ó6f its aitair The plan ap- pears to be leſs prat ically perfe, than thoſe of the ſma ler inſtitutions in Britain,

Mr. Profeſſor DANzZEL of Hamburgh, has lately propoſed the OE ſuggeſtion of an ESTABLISHMENT EN/ Ao YOUTH; into wh ſho birth of a child; on> child’s educati ERT, om t a regular allov

ds.‘The ſam? year, a wo-

24-24 m

for the be-

parents

nually, A the Iy for the ain a particulär agez—

5, fully adequate to the ex-

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at

ance, for a ſufficient number oí

pence of a ſuitable education. LEA c E d ying béfore the age of educatior, or before its courſe of education w pleted, would leave its pecuniary rights, not to the parents, but to the fund: There might be different claſſes of contributors, and of E Gee Ss for profeſſional, mercantile, general

and liberal, artiſan and peaſant, 8&c.—education.

t is remarkable, that in Denmark, perſons of rank and faſhion are much leſs addi&ted to intoxication with ſpirituous liquors, than perſons of the ſame rank in Sweden.

i appears from adyertiſements in the German news- PELS of St. Peters- burgh, that the loweſt claſs of the Ruſſians are ſtill in a condition of ſervitude, in Which they are liable to be occafionally expoſed to ſale by their lords, like any ofher an N or piece of goods!!!

It has been ingeniouſly propoſed, that in order to recruit the population of Europe in proportion as it 1s Waſted by war, every unmarried ſoldier ſhall be obliged to marry in the hopes of begetting a ſucceſſor, eight days before a battle in Nhich he is to fight.

The reſidence of His MAJESTY and the RovaL FAMILY at Weymoui greatly enlivens that ſummer retreat—on the public walks, at the ſcene for ba ing» at Church, in the ridings on the evenings, at the Theatre rout, they d play thoſe mánners which are the moſt happily adapted to make D to the wiſhes of the Engliſh PS ople.

The windows of a certain Print Shop in Oxford. of obſcene Prints, and of others which though p EBE be obſcene, yet, unhappily atta the curious pruriency of forward youth an of languid age, fill hankering a after its former vices. Why ſlaumbers the lance of our cle ergy and of our Police Magiſtrates?

Robberies and thefts are unhappily more frequent in the manuís of Glaſgow and its environs, than in any other

In thé year 1798, the number of

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Marriages. Births.

At Berlin was- 2,363 s Hamburgh“—- 1,492 2 Copenhagen—_—- I,OI7 I Vienna---- 3765 I 5