CHRISTIAN, an extraordinary child, the prodigy of the North, was born at Lubeck in 1721. He spoke his maternal tongue fluently at ten months. At one year old, he knew the principal events of the Pentateuch; in two months more, he was master of the entire history of the Old and New Testaments; at two years and a half, he answered the principal questions in geography and in ancient and modern history; and he spoke Latin and French with great facility before the commencement of his fourth year. His constitution was so delicate, that he was not weaned till a few months before his death. M. Martini of Lubeck published a pamphlet in 1732, in which he endeavoured to give natural reasons for the extraordinary capacity of this infant, who died in his fifth year.