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 808 PRENTICE PRE8BURG rule having been abandoned, reformed congre- gations "of the strict observance" were es tablished in Spain (15 73) and in France, which however remained in connection with the other convents, and the union was strength- ened by new statutes in 1630. In the 18th century the number of convents greatly de- creased, and the female branch became almost entirely extinct. The Premonstratensians are at present (1875) suppressed in Italy, Spain, the German empire, and Switzerland. PRENTICE, George Denison, an American editor, born in Preston, Conn., Dec. 18, 1802, died in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 22, 1870. He was prin- cipal of a public school before he was 15 years old, and graduated at Brown university in 1823. He studied law, was for two years editor of the "New England Weekly Review " at Hart- ford, and then removed to Louisville, Ky., where in 1831 he became editor of the " Lou- isville Journal," for many years a leading ad- vocate in the west of the policy of the whig party. During the civil war it maintained the cause of the Union. In 1831 he published a life of Henry Clay. His short newspaper paragraphs were widely copied for their wit, and a selection from them has been published under the title of " Prenticeana" (New York, 1860 ; new ed., with a biographical sketch by G. W. Griffin, Philadelphia, 1870). See also a memorial address by his successor, H. Wat- terson (Cincinnati, 1870). PRENTISS, a N. E. county of Mississippi, drained by the head waters of the Tombigbee river; area, about 400 sq. in. It has been formed since the cen- sus of 1870. The sur- face is diversified, and the soil generally fer- tile. It is traversed by the Mobile and Ohio railroad. Capi- tal, Booneville. PRENTISS, Seargent Smith, an American or- ator, born in Portland, Me., Sept. 30, 1808, died near Natchez, Miss., July 1, 1850. He graduated at Bow- doin college in 1826, and commenced the study of law, but in 1827 went to Natchez, where he supported himself as tutor in a private family. He was admitted to the bar in 1829, and in 1832 re- moved to Vicksburg, where he was elected in 1835 to the state legislature, and in 1838 to congress. He took little part in the business or debates of the house, but maintained his reputation as an or- ator by a speech against the sub-treasury bill. He strongly opposed the repudiation of the state debt of Mississippi, and in 1845, partly in dissatisfaction with the course adopted, he re- moved to New Orleans, where he passed the remainder of his life, going to Natchez in hi& last illness. A "Memoir of S. S. Prentiss" has been edited by his brother, George L. Pren- tiss, D. D. (2 vols., New York, 1855). PRENZLAU, or Prenzlow, a town of Prussia, in the province of Brandenburg, on the Ticker, 60 m. N: N. E. of Berlin ; pop. in 1871, 14,442, including many descendants of French Hugue- nots. The Gothic St. Mary's church, of the 14th century, has two towers and a celebrated organ. The mineral spring in the Neustadt is known as the Elisabethbad. Linens and wool- lens are manufactured, and tobacco is largely produced ; the chief trade is in grain and cattle. The Prussians under Hohenlohe surrendered here to the French under Murat, Oct. 28, 1806. PRESBURG (Hung. Pozsony}. I. A N. W. county of Hungary, bordering on the counties of Neutra, Komorn, and Wieselburg, and on Lower Austria; area, 1,664 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 297,377, chiefly Slovaks and Magyars. It is traversed by the Carpathians and watered by the Danube, which near the city of Pres- burg divides into two arms, forming the island of Schutt. With the exception of the numer- ous marshes, the soil is very fertile. The chief products are wheat, hernp, fruit, chestnuts, cat- tle, horses, and marble. The principal town, next to the capital, is Tyrnau. II. A city, cap- ital of the county, on the left bank of the Dan- ube, and on the Pesth and Vienna railway, 35 m. E. of Vienna, and 100 m. W. N. W. of Pesth ; Presburg. pop. in 1870, 46,540. It stands on elevated ground, and is semicircular, with the river on the S. side. The Danube is here about half a mile wide, and is crossed by a bridge of boats. Among the principal buildings are the cathe- dral, where the kings of Hungary were for-