a city of Bohemia, and capital of the whole kingdom, is situated in 14° 40' of longitude, and 50° 5' of latitude. It stands on both sides the Moldau, over which there is a bridge 750 feet long, built of large freestone. The river, though of great breadth here, is nevertheless shallow, and not navigable. On both sides of the bridge are several statues, and among others that of St John of Nepomuck, whom King Wenceslaus caused to be thrown from the bridge into the river, for venturing to reprove him upon some occasion; but in 1722, he was canonized as a saint, and is at present held in such veneration in Bohemia, that all other saints seem on his account to be forgotten. Near the bridge, which stands at the upper part of the city, the number of people is very great, but the farther you go from thence the more desolate you find every place. The city is about three miles long and two broad; the number of its Christian inhabitants is said to be 70,000, and of Jews about 12,000. The principal branch of its trade consists in brewing beer. It is divided into the Old and the New Towns, and that called the Small side; the former lying on the east side of the Moldau, and the latter on the west. The whole is about 12 miles in circumference. The fortifications are not of great importance, as it may be flanked and raked on all sides. However, the king of Prussia was not able to make himself master of it in the late war, though he almost destroyed it with his bombs, &c. See PRUSSIA, No. 24, &c.—It has suffered greatly by sieges, and has been often taken and plundered. The university was founded by Charles IV. in the year 1347. In 1429, when John Huss was rector of the university, there were no less than 44,000 students; and when the emperor Charles V. would have retrenched their privileges, 24,000 are said to have left it in one week, and 16,000 in a short time after. The Jews have the trade of this city almost entirely in their own hands. They deal in all sorts of commodities, especially the precious stones found in the Bohemian mines, and, by receiving all old-fashioned things in payment, quite ruin the Christian handicraftsmen. In 1744, they narrowly escaped being expelled the kingdom, having been suspected of corresponding with the Prussians, when they made themselves masters of the city. The grand prior of the order of Malta, for Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, resides here; and the church and hospital of the Holy Ghost is the seat of the general and grand masters of the holy order of knights of the cross with the red star, residing in the above mentioned countries, and in Poland and Hungary. The houses of this city are all built of stone, and generally consist of three stories; but there are very few good buildings in it, and almost every thing looks dirty. The cathedral, which is dedicated to St Veit, is an old building, in which there are some pieces of excellent architecture and many magnificent tombs of great men. There are 100 churches and chapels, and about 40 cloisters in the place. On Ratschin-hill, in Upper Prague, most of the nobility have houses, and the emperor a very magnificent palace, and a summer-house commanding one of the finest prospects in the world. Here the tribunals of the regency meet; and the halls, galleries, and other apartments, are adorned with a multitude of noble pictures. The great hall, where the coronation feast is kept, is said to be the largest of the kind in Europe next to that of Westminster. The castle stands on the above-mentioned ed