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      of the first victory of the French Revolu tionists , Sept . 20 , 1792 , dn which fee bore command . At his anteinnent in Paris , hift brother-in-law , Count Marbois , pronounced a funeral oration , which is said to have drawn tears from every eye .

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      746 Intelligence . — -Foreign : Jfrettmatk * Russia . China . East Indies .

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      Dbmmark . According to letters from Copenhagen received at Hamburgh , die populace of the former city have attempted to renew the disgraceful outrages of last year against the houses and persons of the Jews ; but the prompt intervention of the police instantly restored tranquillity , and defeated the plan of the ill-disposed persons .

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      Russia . €€ In 1818 , a subject of Russia was condemned to death for forging Banknotes , and had his punishment commuted

      into hard labour for life by the Emperor . While suffering this sentence , he was again guilty of the same crime , condemned again to death , and again had his life spared by Alexander , who ordered him to be kept confined for life in a fortress , under strict guard . " Hambro * paper .

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      The consecration of a place of worship , recently built , fpr the German Protestant Church at Moscow , took place on the 11 th of September , 1819 . The ceremony was conducted by the pastors Gcsring and Dommes .

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      ^ China . A Brussels paper of November 6 , states that the Chinese government has prohibited the importation of opium into its dominions . The same jealous and

      persecuting government is also said to have ordered Father Amiot , the only missionary who was still at Pekin , to quit China ; and to have inhumanly strangled at Canton , an old French pries ^ fef great Nage , who had- secretly iohabited China for a great uumber of years .

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      it appears that the herculean labour of translating the Bible into the Chinese LAtfauAGE has at length been accomplished through the perseverance and ability of Mr . Milne and Dr . Morrison , to ability of Mr . Milne and Dr . Morrison , to

      whom , under God , the warmest thanks of the Christian world are most justly due . In a letter , dated Canton , Nov . 25 , 1819 , Dr . Morrison writes thus to the Committee of the Bible Society : « Thua we possess in Chinese , a complete version of , atl the canonical books , of Sacred Scrip *

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      ture > The qualities at which I have aimed In my translations , are fidelity , perspicuity and simplicity ; and when the difficulty of the task , the circumstances in which the translation thas been placed , and the few helps afforded for a first attempt , are considered , 1 am sure that every candid man . and the Committee of the Bible

      Society , " will not lay stress on trivial objections . It will be our study to revise the whole , alone and together , and to collate every part with each other , in order to render names of persons and places uniform ; and we shall avail ourselves of anv

      criticisms that may reach us from any quarter : and may that gracious Providence that has preserved our lives to complete the Translation , yet spare us to revise and print the whole ! The light of revelation will , by the mercy of God , illumine this dark and idolatrous land in

      the appointed season . The printing of the edition of the New Testament , before decided on , is- proceeding gradually at Malacca ; and it will be necessary to print the edition of the whole Bible , which I now project , at the same place . May the Divine blessing rest on all the members and friends of the Bible Society !"

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      The Emperor of China has received an " Ode to the Supreme Being , " written in Russian by Gabriel Romanowtcht , a Russian poet , which he has caused to be translated into both languages , ( the Chi nese and the Tarter , ) to be written on a piece of rich silkffand suspended in the interior of his palace .

      The English newspapers of this day ( Dec . 26 th ) announce the Emperor of China ' s death , on the authority of letters from Petersburgh .

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      East Indies . Consistorial . Court at Calcutta . —This Court was announced by public advertisement , dated Sept , 8 , 1819 , under the title of " The Consistory Court within and for the Archdeaconry of Calcutta , in the Diocese of Calcutta , " The Bishop's

      address on opening the Court is a pleasing proof that ecclesiastical authority cannot become oppressive in Hradostan . A great part of the business incident to the Con * sistory Courts in England , is granted by His Majesty ' s Charter of Justice to the

      Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta . The Bishop ' s Court has to look after the clergy ; to see that they use the Liturgy , the whole Liturgy , ana nothing but the Liturgy ; and to superintend the registry of baptisms .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1820, page 736, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2495/page/48/