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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVII. FINANCIAL AND DOMESTIC MATTERS. (1807--1808.) Settlement of the Russian law suit, --Computation of the estates.--Hia sister's regard and solicitude.--Building in Loretto.--Effect of Gallitzin's persecutions upon the Protestants of the neighborhood'.--His severe rule of life.--Appointment of new bishops. For sometime previous to his mother's death Gallitzin had failed to receive the usual remittances from Europe; this, as he learned afterwards, on account of the great expenses of the Russian law suit, which very much embarrassed her own resources, no income being received by her from the contested property. However, as she knew the money was only detained, not lost, she encouraged him in patience, and wished him to rest secure that such delays would not often recur. Shortly after her death he received a small sum, with promises of more right away, but in the autumn of that year the frightful disasters to Prussia in consequence of the war with France, disarranged everything, depressed business and property, so that Princess Mimi found it unsafe to remain in her mother's house at Muenster; sea travelling had become more dangerous then ever on account of French interference so that letters arrived but seldom, and after long and perilous passage, oftener did not come at all. The affairs of the original church property in Loretto, that donated by Captain McGuire, were of course kept separate from his own, under the care of the trustees of the church, but it, like the farms he held for the same purpose, was only kept up at great expense to him, and at best could do no more than offer ground for future buildings. As he had in the beginning contracted in his own name for great quantities of land for the use of the church, and as..

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