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r stipends in Venice are 30 / . farl-iep * tor and 17 L for a curate . The ordinary income of a cardinal , who is Bi £ X £ in dignity to the pope , is from 400 / . to 5001 . per annum . Instead of 70 ,
the full number of cardinals , only 46 places in the sacred college are filled up , of whom , it is conjectured , one third are supported by their respective nations . The number of bishops is arbitrary and is lessening . The mMiks and nuns are dwindled to a small
number , who are extremely poor . In Austria , properly so called , there are 18 , 918 , 800 subjects , and 19 , 000 clergy men , with an income of 950 , 000 / ., or 60 , 000 / . per million . Here the Emperor has the power to tax churchproperty as he pleased ; so that benefices are not to be taken at their
nominal income . This remark applies also to Hungary and Austrian Italy . The Emperor Josep h set the example of suppressing * the rich ecclesiastical establishments and equaliziag the incomes of the epiacopai and parochial clergy . Monasteries in Austria are few arid not rich .
The population of Switzerland is two-tMrds CaMnists , and one-third Catholics . Hearers are estimated at 1 , 720 ^ , the clergy at 1 , 700 , with an income of 87 , 000 / ., or 50 , 000 / . per
million . In many parts of Switzerland is to be witnessed the edifying spectacle of the t ^ wo Gh ristian sects , the Calvinists and Catholics , using the same church alternately at different hours ; there being a communion-table for the Protestants and an altar
for the Catholics . Here it should be observed , that in statistical nomenclature ; , the Calvinists signify not the believers in the doctrines of Calvin , but the Reformed who are not Lutherans .
Prussia is computed to have 10 , 536 , 5 / 1 hearers , of various sects , and 9 , 578 clergymen , with an income of 527 , 000 / ., being at the rate of 50 , 000 / . per million . Here all religions are on art equal footing , and all subjects are equally eligible to civil and military offices . The population is classed into six millions of
Lutherans , four millions of Catholics , and 300 , 000 Presbyterians , of which last denomination are tbe ^ Kipg and Royal Family and man y or the nobles . ^ Iij Silerf 4 U ah aqiiiirablc 1 regulation , established b ? Frederic the Great , that
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no clergyman is admissible to a ante who does not produce attestations of M * having learned and practised the system dr ediicatiota for the people , introduced by Felbiger , the AugestW
nian monk . The German States , exclusive of Austria and Prussia , are supposed to contain , 12 , 763 , 600 people , with 11 , 600 clergy , having an income ot 765 , 000 / ., viz , at the rate of 60 , 000 / . per million of people . In SaioiAy th&
people are Lutherans 5 the royal fti-s inily , who are extremely beloved , Catholics . In Brunswick and Hanoreiy Lutheran countries , the clergy are said to be best provided fotf . Thereis a regulation in Hanover that a clergyman shall not go from one living to another , unless he has been sevea
years in his first parish . The number of hearers in the kingdom of the Netherlands is estimated at 5 , 000 , 000 , of whom the Ehitch , one-half Calvinists , ofie-fourth Catholics , one-fourth other sects * are
2 , 000 , 000 , the Flemish , all Catholics , are 3 , 000 , 000 . For these , there are 4 , 540 clergymen * whose income is 265 , 000 / ., being at the rate of 8 K ) , 000 / . per million of people of Holland , aad of 36 , 000 / . per million for the Flemish . Both the Dutch « ad the
Flemish are remarkably religious , steady , industrious and efcatjljr . The Em * peror Joseph II . cleared Flanders of a host of idle clergy and monks . The Danes ^ who are all Lutherans ^ amount to 1 , 700 , 000 , and hove ( in- ^
eluding six bishops of superintendents ) 1580 clergy , whose incom e * is 119 , 000 / ., being at the rate of 70 , 000 * . per million . The richest befieftce In Denmark is the Bishopric of Copenhagen , which is about 400 / , per
aonum . Sweden and Norway contain , the former 2 , 700 , 000 , the latter 700 , 000 , > Irearers , making a total of 3 , 400 , 000 ,-for whom there are 3 , 100 clergy men , with an income of 238 , 000 / ., being at the rate of 70 , 000 / . per million . Ail Irere are Lutherans . The Only archbishopric of Sweden is that of Ups * 4 v which has a revenue of 400 / . bet feU-i
num . - The subjects of Roaaia amount to 43 , 800 , 000 , but of these 1 , 600 , 01 ) 0 are Mahometans . Thd Greek Church is supposed to oorttoi i * 34 > 0 W , 00 tt of Irearers , the C « thol 4 c 8 V Lttfiu -aa 4
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1822, page 759, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2519/page/39/
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