The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-15 00:00:00

MOST LA,MENTARLE FANATICISM.

BASLE, APRIL I.—The proceedings against the fanatics
of Trultekon bare just cotnmenced before the SupreroaTri-
bunal at Zurich, and the particulars which we hare given rr-
spieting this deplorable event are unhap,illy confirmed. As
unfortunate young woman nailed to a beard, demanding
death as a benefit, sod expiring under the steel which strait s
her—her sister perishing in tortures—their brother lacerawl
with frightful wounds, but still surviving blows intlicte.'. by
his executioners; these latter covered with blond, site'-
nately praying and striking, singing hymns over the two
dead bodies, and believing the work of God accomplished
by the most horrible's crimes. To this is a religion simple
and mild as its author, perverted by some a retches; such
is the tendency of that gloomy and mystical exaltation et
these dangerous seas which in our times afflict reason, and
of which the priests and the faithful will one day, perhaps,
become the executioners. or the martyrs.
The meeting in which these murders were committed. was
composed of the father of four daughters (Margaret, Et zit-
beth, Susanne, and Barbara) of a brother named Gaspard
a servant, John Krnot ; a maid-servant, Margaret lag:.li:
of the brother-iu-law, Moser, a shoemaker, et Oerlingu n;
his brother Cowed Moser, and a girl, Ursula Keendig, with
whom he was intimately connected. Margaret (to wheat
they had given the name of saiut) died cruelfied. Eliza-
beth expired an.hour afterwards; the father and one of the
sisters (Susan) aro in prison to which the fourth sister sod
the two servants ore going to be conveyed; the brother Gsq-
pard is at the hotel whence he will be conveyed to the pri-
son of Zurich, as soon as he is cured of his wounds.
The bodies of the two victims have been seat to Zurich.
as well as a correspondence, and, some papers relative to
this sect, which, it is hoped, will afford some .nseful infor-
mation respecting its origin and frightfal progress.
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Cite Lelia LecTusesitir.—Tbe election is fixed by
the Churchwardens of the Parish for Thursday, the
17th of April, at eleven n'etock in the forenoon ; ebt'n
the Rev. James Hutchins, son to the present Lecturer, is
expected, in the phrase used by sportsmen, to walk ova
the course.
On Tuei4ey last an inquest was liken at Rracon Adh
Norfolk, before Mr. Pilgrim, the coroner, on view of the
bodyuf Mary Cone and her new-born female illegitimate
child. It appeared that the deceased had been to a drjrcted
state the day preceding to tt.c..iuquest beihe takes, and abouth
ten o'clock that evening kin the absence of her tayther, wit
whom the deceased lived, and who was just going up stairs)
rushed out of her hed-room (which was below stairs) will
her Infant babe in her arms, and threW herself into a pit of
deep water just out of the door, and the mother hearing the
door open, immediately csme down stairs and missed het
deughtet and the child, and on going into the yard dieceeet-
ed them both in the water, apd nothithsianding every rs•
Maumee being rendered, the mother and babe were both
drowned. The Jury. after well considering the e%iAsserr
returned a verdict —•• That Mary Cone, in a lila leardtll
threw herself and infant babe into the water, sod incense'
quenee of which thereireeirowand."

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