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5^4 GER M ANT. [Leipzig.
a confiftory, under which ftand twenty-three fuperintendencies ; of a fuperintendency
whole fpiritiial jurifdiaion is divided into the circles of Taucha, Rotha,
DcUtzjcb-Zorbig and Äniftcin, and which comprizes in it in general twelve
churches lying in hve different towns, forty-feven mother-churches in tlie
coLiutrv, and thirty-five filials. It is likewife the feat of a very flourrfliing
and famous univerfity, which was founded and dedicated in 1409, and condifts
of four nations, namely of the Mifnian, Saxo?i, Bavarwn or Francovieut,
and the Poliß:, and contains in it fix colleges ; as alio ©f two good
Lcifin fchools, namely, thofe of St. Nicolas and St. Thomas; and likewife of
two celebrated focieties, as namely, a German lociety, and another for the
encourii-^ement of the liberal arts. Leipzig is alfo one of the four towns
where the contingents of the Empire are paid in ; and likewife one of the
principal trading towns in all Ge?-ma)iy, in as much as it enjoys not only
an important foreign trade, but alfo at its three celebrated fairs, which are
kept at Eafler, Michaelmas, and the beginning of the new year, carries on
a very extenlive commerce both in domeftic and foreign wares. It is likewife
poflcfled of the fiaple-right, by virtue of which all ftaple commodities
imported within fifteen Gcniian miles round muft be unladen here, at leaft
for three da3'S, and offered to fale to fuch of the trading and mercantile
people here as are burgher?, and then for the firff time carried farther, but
to be unladen no where elfe.
The Pki/Jeiikirg here is a ffrong citadel on the Pleije before Peters-gate,
and in it, in 1752, was founded a mint. In a chapel alfo at the fame place
The i^5Wi7;;-cat:hülics perform their worlhip. In the centre of the town is a
fpacious and -fine market-place, near which alfo the council-houfe ffands.
The exchange near the Ajh-market is well built, and the roof of its hall
well painted. The cloth-hall here contains likewife the grand councillibrary.
The fix colleges of the univerfity are the Paulij^e-college, in which
is the'univerfity-library, the anatomical theatre, X.\\e conviäcrium, and the
phyfical-garden, near the Prince's houfe ;
the great Prince's college, the
little Prince's college, Peters, or the Jefuit's college, our Lady's college,
and the new or red college. The churches here are thofe of St. Nicolas^
St. Thomas, the Ncm) church, Peter's church, near which is alfo a Setninarium
Catechetariim, the univerfity-church in the Pauline-college, the church near
the corredion and orphan-houfe, St. Jolm's and the hofpital-church before
xhtGrimma-gate, as alfo the Z/flz^jr^? church before the gate oiRanfiadt.
The Calvinijis, ever fince the year 170-', have been pofl"efled in the court of
the exchequer-houfe of a large room for the celebration of their public
worOiip, which is performed in French. Mention has already been made of
the 7^ow^7«-catholic chapel. All forts of manfadures are made in this town,
gold, filver, filk, wool, and linen yarn being worked here in all manner of
iluffs, velvets, flockings, cloths and linen. There are alfo houfes here for the
dying of filk, as likewife for the tnaking of tapeffry and linnen, and the
ptinting of cotton, Leathtr and Berlin, or Prußian blue, ^c. are moreover
prepared