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two loaves of bread in the morning and one in the evening—a bread as black as charcoal , and bitter as poison . They are all miserable , without hope or com * fort . They are despised , insulted and ill-treated by the Moorish and
Turkish rabble . Without ministers or the exercises of religion , these poor abandoned wretches are deprived even of religious conso * lations . There is only one poor priest paid by Spain , who has the
care of a small hospital , and attends to the burying of Christians . Some years ago , before Spain had bought ihe present small cemetery , the poor deceased Christian slaves were denied the sacred rites
of sepulture and remained in the open air , a horrid food for the dogs . Unfortunately , the ransom is rendered extremely difficult on
account of the great sums they demand . The Bey asked fifteen hundred piastres for every Sicilian : the predominant passion of these barbarians is avarice and
ambition . The Bey and some other families are possessed of immense riches . Justice with them is summary , harsh and arbitrary ; every thing is corrupted and bought with gold . The Algerines are cunning and wicked . To know how to
deceive and ^ avoid deception what forms their gn ? £ t political study and they boast i > f it . the present Bey , Hadgy-AIy-PaiBciiv is the most cruel and
ferocious of any that Algiers has ever had . He is in the sixth year of Jms reign , and owes this long duration , to his extreme vigilance and cruelty . His government is made up of injustice , violence and despotism . There is indeed q , regency in Algiers , composed of se-
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veral ministers and a Divan of old Agas , but both these bodies are subservient to the imperious will of the tyrant or are despised by him * Whenever he shews himself to the public , numerous
guards surround him on every side , and the people , not daring to look the monster in the face , fall prostrate to the ground , and exclaim Salameleck , as he passes . This fellow boasts that his king * dom is a cave of robbers . H «
once complained that the English had taken a small vessel belonging to him , and on that occasion he observed to them , " It is wrong in you to do so ; if we do it , it is because we are robbers , and 1 am at the head of them , **
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Mr . Wright to / . S . on Future Punishment . Wisbeach , Oct . 6 , 1814 , Sir ,
Your letter ( p . 343 , &c . ) would have been noticed sooner , had I not been employed in a journey which occupied the whole . of my time . I feel it necessary to make a few short remarks on its
contents ; though probably a difference of opinion between us will continue unavoidable ; this will not prevent the investigation of the important subject to which it relates benefiting the reader .
1 . Your reasoning , intended to prove , that the words , destruction , death , fyc . cannot be rae ^ nt to convey the same npeaning in the New Testament as in the Old ,
appears to me to prove the direct contrary ; for if the old covenant contained no discovery of . a future state , and whatever Relief of it was entertained b y the Pkans ^ s was probably derived from the ob-
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Mr . Wright to J . S . on Future Punishment . ft 19
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 619, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/31/
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