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vourabte opinion , which , in a manner so highly gratifying to my feelings , he expresses with respect to the small tracts which I have composed with a view to the instruction and improvement of the poor ; and to assure him , that the work which he
recommends , of making a proper selection from the works of the excellent Fenelon , would be a task most agreeable to me . I should also have pleasure in complying with the suggestion
of even an anonymous writer in the Repository ; but 1 fear to promise any thing , as my health is most precarious , and my eyes do not now permit me to write for successive hours ,
as I could have done in former years , which passed away before I had the most remote idea of employing my pen for any purposes beyond those of a very limited correspondence . To
the perusal of the Repository , and to the friendship of its valuable Editor , I owe a degree , I trust , of increased usefulness ; and 1 gratefully acknowledge a large increase of private felicity , derived from that pure source .
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( Fro m , the SL James ' s Chronicle . ) € C Professor Bohmen , at Gottingen , has published a very interesting and valuable work , under the title of * Manual of the Literature of Criminal Law . ' In this work we find the
following proof of the superstition and cruelty which prevailed in Hungary , with respect to witches , in the former half of the last century . " In a report from the Segedin , of the 26 th of July , 1728 , it is said , * As several persons of both sexes have been lately thrown into prison here , they have not only been very strictly examined , but also sentenced to be burned . But before this
sentence was executed on them , they were first , according to the custom of this place , put to the proof : that is to say , they were let down into the water with their hands bound , and a long rope fastened round their bodies ; but , according to the manner of witches ,
they floated on the water like a piece of dry wood . After this they were immediately put to the second proof , namely , laid in the scales to see how heavy each was , upon which it was astonishing to behold that a tall and robust woman weighed no more than
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three drams , and her husband , who was not of the smallest , only five drams , and the next , on an average , only half an ounce , three drains , and even ljess . On the £ Oth of this month , the sentence was executed on thirteen
persons , namely , six sorcerers and seven witches , who were all burned alive . Among them , the last year ' s justice of the town , a man otherwise highly esteemed by every body , 82 years old , adorned the funeral pile !! It is not to be described how dreadful
this spectacle was to behold : three wood piles were erected a league from the town , with a great stake fixed in the middle of each ; to this stake four malefactors were bound with ropes
upon each pile , and then a woman , who was not yet burned , was beheaded .... thereupon all the piles were kindled , and set in full flames at once . "
In addition to this , and as a . fit com * panion , I send another account , also extracted from a newspaper . " When Charles II ., ancestor to the present King-, celebrated his marriage in Madrid , it was done by the exhibition of the most magnificent Auto
de Fe , that ever was known , as described by Olmo , and represented in a superb painting by Rizzio , still preserved in the palace of Burn Retiro . Such a scene of parade and honour , grandeur and misery , was never before witnessed . The bride and
bridegroom , together with the Queen Dowager , attended at the whole ceremony , which lasted till night , when upwards of fifty victims , who had been previously tortured , were brought
forth , in solemn imitation of the last judgment , and such of them as were not brought by terror to retract the errors of heresy , were thrown into the flames I "
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616 On the Apdstle \ Paul preaching in Latin , Greek , £ &
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Sir , Bath > Sept . 15 , 1818 . TR AVELLING , many years ago , from Peterborough to London , two gentlemen at Highgate came into the coach . One of them was so
bespangled wiih gold lace , that 1 had no thought of his beginning any conversation upon religion . But I was mistaken ; for he began immediately to harangue upon the Trinity , and went so far into the orthodox scheme , that 1 asked him if he believed that God Almighty was put to death ; he
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 616, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/16/
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