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    FOREIGN . Germany . It is asserted in the public journals , that the greatest part of the German newspapers have Jews as their proprietors and

    principal editors ; for instance , the u Gazette of the Free Town of Frankfort , " the " German Minerva , " the " Journal of Germany , " the •* Melanges of Foreign Literature , " the c * Free Speaker , " the " Hamnionia , " the " Ethnographic Archives , " the u Gazette of Cassel , " and some others .

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    S 42 Intelligence . —Foreign . Germany . Prussia . Holland and Netherlands .

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    Prussia . Much dissatisfaction prevails in this country , owing- to the King ^ s neglect of his promises to give the people a free constitution . A strong * rumour was afloat for some time of his Majesty having been beset by an unruly assemblage of petitioners , and obliged to call in the military to extricate himself from them . The report may have been wbolly false ; but it is by such straws being thrown up that we learn which wsy th # wind blows .

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    Ecclesiastical Hefbrms . — -Within tne last two years the Prussian government has established a society at Berlin , composed of learned theologians , appointed to propose some plan for the amelioration of the forms of worship and of the liturgy .

    Although this society has not yet presented its plan , it is said that to its counsels are owing the re-union © f tlie two Protestant Confessions , the introduction of a new form of worship into the military church of Potsdam , and the ecclesiastical seminary at Wittemberff , &c . To ensure the

    reverence due to religion and morality , it proposes the re-establishment of public penance ; which measure is strongly supported by Dr . Schletermacher , Theological Professor at the University of Berlin , and President of this Society ; the same who so strenuously maintained the advantages

    resnlting from the re-union of the two Confessions , in opposition to the opinion of Dr . Ammon , Super in tend ant at Dresden . Under what form will this public penance re-appear ? This point is not yet decided , but it is thought that the plan will have to

    encounter powerful adversaries , especially amongst the rich and great , amongst whom the application of it should commence , — M . Krichhofj a Doctor of Divinity , !> as published a pamphlet , which has produced a great sensation . In it he maintains that the Protestant Church cannot subsist

    unless it accede to auricular confession , tne celibacy of ^ the priests , and a supreme ecclesiastical power as the centre of unity . ——( Chronique Religieme . J

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    Holland auto Nktheribands . Thb people of the Continent are scrutinizing the Duke of Wellington ' s conduct as a statesman . They are surprised ( as the following * paragraph manifests ) that an Irishman should set himself against the claims of the Irish Catholics . But , says

    the Dublin Weekly Register , of Feb . 37 , " his Grace , perhaps , will appear less inconsistent in their « yes , when we inform them that he happens to acknowledg * e very little lore for Iretand , and that he n

    reputation . " Brussels , Feb . 10 . —Th « intention of the Duke of Wtltitfgton to oppose the

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    In consequence of the regulations made by his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar , respecting foreigners studying * at the University of Jena , the

    King * of Prussia has , by a cabinet order , dated Berlin , April 10 , recalled the youth belonging- to his dominions who were pursuing their studies there : they are to continue their studies in some Prussian University . Disobedience to this order will be visited with incapacity of office .

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    Freedom of the Press . Wurtemberg , March 14 . The political situation of our country is at present of such a nature , that it may , perhaps , lead to a more favourable result for the rights of citizens , than will be the case in the German States .

    By our disputes respecting the Constitution since 1815 , and by the freedom of the press , which for the last year has been constantly protected by the King * , a mass of information on public affairs has been spread among all ranks of people , which can be no more suppressed , but will shew

    itself with the more energy in the next Assembly of the States , as we have become sensible what it is that is necessary . Only a few days ago , the King- himself suppressed a new ebullition of military despotism . The Editor of the new Stuttgard Gazette ( Captain Savbold ) had expressed

    himself with much freedom respecting the military system . This incensed many individuals in the army , and several generals took the lead . In an address to the King they demanded no less than a censorship for the journals , at least with respect to articles concerning the military : and that

    the Editor of the New Stuttgard Gazette should be deprived of his rank as captain . To this the King replied , that in his kingdom Liberty of the Press was established ; that if remarks were made upon any class of persons in the State , they must , if they

    were false , have the courage to overlook or to despise them and if they were true , have the justice to profit by them ; but his tribunals only took cognizance of defamation of individuals . This truly royal answer disarmed the enemies of the Liberty of the Press .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/62/