Star.
London, England, 1821-09-15 00:00:00

PRETENDED MIRACULOUS CURE;,

A great deal has of late been said in
at...h:e.slcor::....ti-to
nental papers about the miracles assetted far
been wrought by the Prince of tlobenloh; ;a 814
herr' in Germany. To believe the tales given on
by the Prince and his accomplices or dupes,- .1), hti
made the lame to walk, the blind to see th
recover instantaneously the vigour of I.'e
The fame of this miraculous operator had he,:a
widely diffused, and faith in the efficacy of Lis cures
so deeply rooted, that the places where he at, :$
are ctowded with persons labouring 111113. real r
pretended infirmities and dli,seeayseth,, lltc
av
• uounce
of the city have at last found such assemblages to l
inconvenient, and have interf.•?ed with the exhibition
the Prince's miracles. Parr
e rat gone the
length of shutting up his operation-room, and writing
on it, as was written on the wonder-working remit
of the Abbe Paris, " the Police forbids Paortnewesi
to work any more miracles here ;" but they have cony
mantled the Prince to woe k no miracle clandediod4i
and have ordered him, whenever he 'mans to hes',O
his opera:ions, to give nutice to an Officer of Polkes
and to have as witnesses a delegation in the Arrow
Thies and of the Faculty. It he works many more
• ewes after this, time must he more in him than
4, philosophy can find out." The Police Ploclamatias
maliciously add:, that when his miracles were fp,
metly examined by this test, they were found to be
deceptions.
An article from Carhrnhe, dated August 11, says:
—" The letters which have been printed at Wurts.
burg, respecting the miracles ,f M. Iliihenlohe,ata
which are evidently from the pen of an ex•Jemii, el. •
plain those miracles by a mysterious prayer, which
the pious peasant Martin Michel communicated to
the Prince, and which, when pronounced by a Priest,
must naturally have more effect than when recited
by a peasant. The following is the history cf this
prayer:—The father of Martin Michel had leCeiVel
an ex-Jesuit into his house, and given him an. asylurs
until his death. The exolesuit, when he was d)ing,
taught his benefactor the prayer, which, when pro
nounced with faith and fervour, would cure all dio
eases. The peasant continued a long time withog
making any use of so precious a legacy; but having
been himself seized with a dangerous fit of iiiness,
he communicated the player to his son, our Mattis
Michel, who repeated it, and cured his father. After
this Martin Michel made frequent use of the prayer,
but did not always perform cures. One day, having
come to a peasant who had been grievously wounded
in the wrist, and who felt severe pain, although the
same was somewhat alleviated by a plaister which
he had put on the wounded part, Michel prevailed
on the man to lay aside the plaister and join him in
prayer, as the best means of effecting a cure. After
some days the pain entirely ceased, because the sate
turned to a mortifization ; and the peasant died. The
local Authorities being informed of this affair, fo•
bade the pious Michel from pert-orming his cum,
under pain of implisoament. Against this tit derhe
made an appeal to a higher tribunal, alleging da
the Gospel allowed any person who tilmly believed
in JEsos CHRIST to perform cures ; but his appeal
was not attended to. After this Martin Ache pa-
formed his miraculous cures only under the sent(
the most inviolattle secrecy, in the Duchy of Baas
and on the frontier of Bavaria. Prince flohenlofc
having heard of his wonderful performances, seat fa,
and, it is positively asserted, obtained from him the
miraculous prayer."