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      FOREIGN . FRANCE . In many parts of France , the remnants of the Protestant Churches , scattered at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes , are again appearing , while new places pf worship , erected principally by the contributions of the congregations , are every where building : One has been solemnly

      dedicated at Mens , in the department of Isere , in Dauphine " , the Protestant inhabitants of which place are probably descended from the Waldenses , who f rom the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes , up to the year 1787 , persevered in holding their religious assemblies and celebrating the sacrament of the Lord ' s Supper by night , in the neighbouring forests , to

      visited by a minister of their religion once , or at most twice in the year , when they were obliged to hold their assemblies in cellars or garrets , which were unable to contain more than 150 persons . For the last five years they have been enabled to support a resident minister , whose exertions have been blessed with

      avoid detection . Another church has been opened at Conde-sur-Noireau in the department of Calvados . Still the wants of the French Protestants are very great . Seven congregations near Amiens , consisting principally of weavers , are so poor , that till lately they could only be

      signal success , so that it is now absolutely necessary for them to build a place of worship sufficiently large to contain the increasing congregation .

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      GERMANY . National Meeting * at Munich . The three meetings of the German Literati , especially natural philosophers and physicians , that have taken place within the last three years at ; Frankfort , Dresden , and Munich , for the express purpose of promoting experimental phi « iosophy in all its branches , by commu * uicatvug and discussing the various discoveries and experiments made by

      different individuals , from all parts of Germany , have excited such universal attention , that they are justly said to form a new epoch in the history of German literature * The great merit of haying originated these beneficial assemblies is due to Professor Oken , of Jena , and now of Munich . The last meeting took place in September , at Munich ; and no fewer than 152 profcssors of natural philosophy , besides

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      many other learned individuals f rom Dresden , Berlin , Frankfort , Weimar , Bonn , Ulm , Stuttgardt , &c , assembled in this daily rising capital . The first sitting * on the 18 th of September , under the special patronage of the . king and all his ministers , was attended by several

      hundred visitors , ancj held in the magnificent saloon of the town-hall , which was decorated for the occasion with exotic trees and plants from the botanical garden . Public dinners , concerts , excursions into the vicinity of the capital , and other amusements , took place in the afternoon of that and every succeeding day , in order to relieve the more

      serious occupations of the morning . At the last dinner , ( to which the king had invited the whole of the literary visitors , ) two ministers of state presided ; and after the company rose from table , it is mentioned as a special mark of favour , that his majesty spoke a few

      words to every one of his guests ; . so that they parted full of the warmest ad [ - miration for , as tliey termed himjth . e king of the learned . The next meeting is to be held in Berlin , in September next : Alexander von Humboldt president , and Professor Lichtenstein , the African traveller , secretary , K

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      Vienna * ? Those who know the spirit of the Austrian government , and its inveterate hate for every thing that breathes the spirit of liberty , will doubtless be surprised to hear that , among the revival ^ in that capital of German despotism , Schiller ' s fFUHam Tell lias been brought forward ; but surprise will give way to a

      different feeling when we see how dramatic poetry must yield to tlje lash of Austrian police . In ( he Vienna version of Schiller ' s play , the hero , while in the act of drawing his how , is discovered by tne Austrian Governor , and the look of this noble functionary is sufficient to damp the courage of Tell , who , full oi remorse for his intended crime , lays his .

      cross-bow at the feet of Gessier , aud is pardoned . The Chorus of Peasants Jjien exclaim , " If ail % Tell ! Hail , Qessler / Hail the House o / Awtriuf" a » 4 the curtain fails before the sounds have died away . The Austrian Royal Anthem im » mediately succeeds , in order to extinguish any patriotic feeling that might nave been awakened during the rep * e * aeutation of fPUI&m Tell

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      Intelligence . —Foreign . 359

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/71/