The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-19 00:00:00

FEATURES OF WAIL

The following extract from a b'ree'ch wort-,
ten by Voltaire, bears a striking resetub!aer; ;.
horrid system of warfare that is not: CI d
rite- 0„ irF
different parts of Europe
6 feu must drink the King of Bulgaria's hello..
said the soldiers; ' he is the best of Al,
replied Candide, (b
enough', said they ; yoe are a brave a follow,
are become his support, his defe:ider, one of (ie!! -
roes of Bulgaria ; hour fortune is made, see; sat
e
certain of glory.' --They fleet pa leueleeele 0.,
wrists, and conducted bite to the reeilient ; thee
they made him turn to the right, wheel to the let'
shoulder his musket, rest upon !.is arms,
fire, march, and countermarch ; in teturn fir uo • /
the drill serjeant gave him thirty strokes „io, hit
cane. The next day he performed his exercise` tee,
ter, and he received oel.y twenty. Ore the ino• the
they gave him but ten, and ail his comrade, regarded
hint as a prodigy of genius.
" The astonished Caedide could not conceive. • by
what enchantment he lied become a hero. (hie
morning in spring, when tire birds were Sit ing end
the trees beginning to bloom, he thought prope, ts
t h
othere
take a walk. Proceeding straight forward,, aid
supposing it was the privilege of the human speJe.,
like ottliteeraabtotivnesalts,,, use
otolenatagkute,s,
beforeof
f biliou leis,
ieal
not go
roes, each of six feet high, overtook him, boiled
hint, and threw him into a dungeon. Ile wns juri.
dicially- asked, whether he preferred beieg thirtv-six
times tinged through the regiment, or suffer t•reise
balls to pass through kin brains ?-11i vain did ies
assert the freedom of the w ill, and affirm, that be
preferred tteither one nor the other ; he was oleierd
to make a choice ; laud in virtue of that gift of Coe,
which is called Liberty, he concluded in favour of
flogging. Ile was twice brought to the halberts,
where he each time received five hundred lashes,
Whieh flayed hint from the hip to the neck, a:td
laid the muscles and nerves all bare. As they
were proceeding to the third course, Catelides
unable to endure more, requested for Goo's sake,
that they would have the goodness to b;os out
his brains. His petition was favoura';ly rec.eved;
but es he was keerling blindfolded, the Kite; of the
Bulgarians. happening to come to the parade, es-
quire(' concerning his came. As the king was a
men of great genius, he, comprehended, Iran the
story toll him, that Crudide WIS a vo'ing metaphy.
sician, ignorant of the world, and granted hit
pardon ; a clemency whilth has been and will be a-
cerded in every newspaper, every history, and every.
age. A skilful surgeon, in three we••ks cured Cale
Bide, by use of emollients, ss Rich Dioscorides pre-
scribes. The skin nesin began to crier his back,
'id he •- able to lk, when the King of the But.

..c was able to wail:,
gariatis gave battle to the King of the Abarian,—
Nothing could be so charming, so dazzling, so well
disciplined, so well appointed as the two armies.—
The trumpets, drums, fife-s, •and caution, Lrmed a
Concert of such harmony as hell itself never equal-
led. To begin, the artillery laid low about site
thousand men on each side. The musketry nest
dispatched between nine and ten thousand ; and the
bayonet, in its turn, was the adequate cause of O.
.death of as many more. The whole amount was at
least thirty thousand souls. Canditle, who trembled
like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could
(luring the heroic butchery. At length, while the two
Kings ordered Ta Deum to be sung in their two
camps, he thought proper to depart and reason else.
where on causes and effects. Ho passed over moon.
tains of the dying and the dead. The first village he
came to belonged to the Abarians: it was reeking
with smoke, having been burnt by the Bulgarians,
according to the law of nations. Here stood old
men maimed by the enemy, gazing on their murdered
wives, with their dead children extended on their
bleeding bosoms. There lay virgins giving up the
ghost, with their wombs ripped open, after having
appeased the natural appetites of certain heroes.—
Others, half roasted, called aloud for some one to
come and dispatch them entirely. Here the brains
of men were scattered, here their arms, here their
legs, and here their mangled trunks. Candide tied
with all his might to another village, that belonged
to the Bulgarians, which the heroes of Abaria had
treated much in the same manner. At length, marching
over limbs sti!l trembling, hearts still palpitating, and
fires yet nnextinguished, he ith.kily escaped from the
theatre of war and glory."

I - • • _
. Among the valuable curiosities that have 'fallen
into the hands of BONAPARTE by the possession of
the*Kremlin, or citadel of Moscow, is a Greek Ma-
miseript of the New Testament, of the 400th century.
There is no work of the kind extant so ancient by
several hundred years. There ire some of the nest
: oldeseiAitions in the Vatican, at Roroe. In .F.I.A.
• httid; we'blieve, there are tio editions of the Nor
*.Teitament oldvr than 7 or 800 years.
• 14iDEEN TREASURE.--3few weeks ago there was
',discovered, in an old wall.connected with the farm-
steading ots the lip& of hlaterknock, in the parisk
of Kiltnalcolm,
.lielonging to Lord Belhaven, sa
FORrthen pig, containing twenty-two German dollar,
'i'Of diffe'rent reigns, from 1604 to 1627, and some
Without dates. They are in a static of perfect pre.
hAtervatiOn, some of them as if new. from the Mint.—
i The chief part of them' has been bought up by Mr.
Miller,, watch-maker, in Tort-Glasgow. There is
a fradition;that "an old drrgoon soldier, of the nsse
j of Allison, who 'had. served in ' Germany • duriat
Queen Anne's wars, retired to •this farincand Ol-
t, lowecf his original trade of smithend.farrier ; Lap-
Oiling to-be When suddenifill, be lent, in afl haste,
ritre Ids r! n;` *thole- name was Vlrillism,-theo wort
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ing in the same Tine, in the neighbouring parish
Erskine, to . whom, -he said, he had an important
Isecret to communicate ; but, before the son arrived,
1 the old man died. II conjecture of the neighbour-
hood was, that the- secret to be communicated tv•
r spected his profession, in which he was deemed very
expert, and eminently skilful, and the loss of it was
i much regretted ; but the belief now is, that he wished
Fto acquaint his scw, where his little treasure, doubt-
{ less hardly earned, lay. The secret unrevealed, this
pig and its ,contents hare lain undiscovered f6r up-
wards. of a eenSury.
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