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The progress which this town has made in real , substantial prosperity , and in intellectual and moral improvement , in the last forty years , is truly gratifying . Since 1812 , even , its population has increased from 80 , 000 to 123 , 000 , without reckoning a floating population of 22 , 000 . Among its public insti * tutions , almost all of recent origin , may be enumerated a Botanic Garden , a Public Library , a Secondary School for Medicine , and gratuitous Schools
for Drawing , Music , Geometry , and Mechanics ; a Female Penitentiary ; a Savings' Bank ; an Institution for the Deaf and Dumb ; and a variety of others , the object of which is to give assistance to the sick and to the poor , and to relieve misfortune in whatever shape it may present itself . Within the last year and a half there has been formed here a Societe de la Morale Chretienne , on the same plan as that at Paris . Societe de la Bienfaisance Chretienne , would better express the object which it has in view , which is
to promote the happiness and improvement of man , in whatever way its efforts may be most needed . Hitherto its attention has been chiefly directed to the establishment of a circle , or reading-room for young people , to thfe improvement of the prisons , to the abolishing of gaming , and to the bettering the condition of the young Greeks , many of whom it has rescued from slavery , brought to this port , and forwarded on their arrival to other towns on the Continent , where committees exist which take charge of their educa *
tion . The country around Marseilles is not beautiful , and least of all so to an Englishman ; for there are no green fields for the eye to repose upon . Yet it is extremely striking ; the canes , and vines , and olives , with which the gardens are p lanted ; the pities , which the axe has still spared , on the higher grounds ; the bold rocks , which shoot up their craggy summits on every side ; and the blue waters of the bay , which reflect the hues of a cloudless sky , combine to form , a scene which might feed the imagination of a
poet . 18 th to 21 st . Made an excursion to Toulon and Hy £ res . The arsenal at the former place is extensive and well arranged ; and its bay large enough for three hundred vessels to ride securely at anchor . Great preparations are making to bring the Dey of Algiers and the Grand Turk to their senses .
Hyeres is the most miserable town that I ever saw ; but placed in the midst of a country which is the very garden of France , spread out into pastures , and orange-groves , and vineyards , and gently sloping towards the sea , which presents itself at the distance of a couple of miles . This place is warmer than Marseilles , but it is not altogether secure from the mistral ; lodgings are dear , and a man would be very likely to die for want of society .
Having now attempted to give your readers some idea of what struck me as being most worthy of notice in the course of my journey , 1 shall here set down , in a condensed form , the information which I obtained respecting the religious opinions , the present state , and the future prospects of the French Protestants . I have refrained from g iving the particulars of conversations which I had with various individuals in the places through which I passed , for this would have been taking an unwarrantable liberty ; but I endeavoured ; , wherever I went , to become acquainted with the Protestant pastors , * and the statements which I shall make are founded on their testimony , as well as
on that of other intelligent persons whom I met with . The result of my inquiries is , that the majority of the French Protestants * I use this word as corresponding more exactly to the French pasteur , than our word minister does . In contradistinction to pasteur , minister denotes one who is admitted to holy orders , but hps not yet the charge of w flock .
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Journal of a Tour in the South of Frande . 85
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/13/
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