Star. — 1825-09-12 (London, England)

PRINCE HOHENLOHE'S NEW MIRACLE.  If the following miracle, detailed in an ecclesiastical journal, called L' Anti de la Religion et du Roi, be true, it is a death-blow to the thriving trade of all those persons who attempt by lotions, oils, and essences, to restore decayed beauty, or remedy the defects of nature' or the deformities produced by accident ; for how can' the long and troublesome operation of ordinary cosmetician: stand a competition with the safe, easy, snd quick presto-begone efficacy of the prayers of Prince Hoheirlohe? The following are the alleged facts of the miraculous restoration of beauty. Francoise Merlin (the name is a very appropriate one for the marvellous story), a girl twenty-seven years old, living at Chapounais, in the diocese of Grenoble, fell into the fire while she was yet an infant in the cradle, and was most dreadfully disfigured in consequence. Her left cheek p-re.ented tl.e appearance of a shrivelled cicatrice, with a knotted ridge of flesh crossing it, and her nose, eye, and mouth were so contracted and injured as to render her aspect pet fectly hideous. This girl, thus disfigured, begged of the Cure of Teysen to recommend her to the prayers of Prince Hohenlobe ; he consented, and last February, he told her to commence a neuvaine, or nine days' prayers. This she accordingly did, but without any visible effect. The neuvaine of March was alike inoperative; but one fine morning to. wards the close of the neuvaine of April, after some very acute paMs in the head, her deformity entirely disappeared. Her lett cheek, which had been furrowed like a newly-ploughed field, became all of a sudden as smooth as a bowling-green, the nose removed into its proper place and swelled to its full dimensions, the mouth returned to all its freshness and pristine proportions, and the left eye, which had been motionless and incessantly open for 26 years, became as lively and sparkling as any eye in the village, and acquired a complete power of shutting and opening, winking or leering, at the will of the fair possessor; even the lids, whose lashes had been burnt to the roots, we►e instantaneously accommodated with a second and silken crop. " I affirm," says the Cure, " only what our eyes have seen. T. e extraordinary cure of the girl is complete and permanent, and 1 ought to add, that she has had no recourse to physical remedies." A general confession, frequent communions, prayers, and acts of piety have been the only means made use of by Fransoise Merlin ! Oh, Francoise Merlin ! Francoise Merlin 1 you and Prince Hohenlohe are a pretty particular considerable pair of impostors I calculate.  At the Anglesea Great Session, a man, named Evan Robert:, was indicted for the murder of his own male bastard child. The child was placed with a woman named Parry to nurse, and on the 23J October she went nut early in the morning to milk, and Left the child in bed asleep; she was absent about half an hour; there were three others iu a:lother bed close by. Wh. n she came back, she saw the clothes had been turned down, and the child was not there. Oa the night previous, the prisoner did not s!eils at home, but said he was at his mother's, cutting fire-wood for her, till ne irly one o'clock in the morning ; he then walked about and fell asleep in a field. On the morning that the chid was missing, the prisoner was seen on the road between the house and Llyslan wi.h a small bundle under his arm. The child was found in so,ne straw, at the Cowhouse, at Llyslan, on the 6th of November, but so disfigured that it could not be tecognizei. The prisoner absconded the. day afer the child wa, las•, and was not found till the following May, when he went by the name of Joha Roberts. The Jury, after deliberating seven huur.i, returned a verdict of-.‘ot