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:ence be executed

unless the Santo E

Ldre himself in-

lerefore, might be passed, as in fact it was,
ow fast collecting to see blood spilt, as did

leestors in the Collosseum hard bv. We never as-
at an execution in England; but what we saw this
more impressible population, proved to us the
spectacles : the attendance on them, we
pied, is that of mere curiosity. So far
hushed or awed, so far from all men's
,d in whispers on the horrid crimes

ng bus

the movement was one,
ey came to see what the

and what the behaviour of the criminal

leaving, as

—alter seeing a

another of infantry maneegyr

s most unseasonably (bat

benedictions and explosions, i 6 to-

as a murmur of venyano,
es at a wheelwright's door

presently

each _
with i it soon arrived, and was
fratternita deli: its criminal seated between
And hood, with holes
carmalazione, arrayed in a
es to see through, who ap-
at on their charitable duty ; one of the miserable
iring the whole suP Purtof their arms, which
I round his waist, his f
,ield close to it—the other
fixed on a book,
',al muscles which were er
making large
J so soon to he
g round with a
first
ntenance of small
iral colour—(the
illaires were
-,!en enough! ImaginationP
upon big heart, and th::anns blood had
Us was the point at whicl wweagsufitutieldY
Jiang at the deplorable weakness
time when Romily would have abolished
for
ahol.lit shhome,
ir of these useless and brutalising scenes
sin r rred to the judges of the land, the law aution
Fors( the great question of the peril of doing away
-
ishl Aof death ; they might as well have asked a
tee parish schoolmasters. apothecaries, and church-
-1 ar it was not a technical question, but a great,
'Ulosophical consideration for all humanity—an ap-
-ience, of which every British citizen had had
a question not to be settled by men in
with powdered wigs, but by the moral sense, intelli-
nd right feeling of the country. It had in fact, been
long before the Christian era, in the admirable plead-
Diodotus for the people of Mytilene—a colony which
prisals ' -‘ it relapsed into the hands of its ancient
`le AP. p
---• (Chucyd. 1. iii.) Yes ! we had now
be I irrefragrably convinced ; we bad beard bar-
' "id, horses shod, and
-iffold of the guillotine

i look

and tb

rilies,_forsooth

at too much—

the Athenia

broach

of execration to the repe-
__ ...

tion of such horrors it was not, perhaps, an occasion, you
rill rill say, but Home is always a place for classical relic
ons, and we relollected the horror.which the ancient people,
among the unworthy, priest-ridden, untaught, ill-fed, and
rorse-clothed descendants of whom we had passed two
ours) entertained concerning modes of death which Mail-
-1.,1 that body which they desired to surrender, Di: Mani-
The poet alludes to the mutilation of Caius
when lie fell into the bombs of sylla—
" Hoe cruciatu
Lentulus, hae p(ena caruit ! cecithtque Cethegus
NTEGER, et jacuit Catilina CAIIAVERE TOTO."

us. ent

-The Belle Assemblee.—The Farmer's
Rogerson, Norfolk-street, London.
or
Isinan has some excellent articles. A very inter-
Memoir of the late Duke of Cleveland, by Nimrod;'

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