Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-11-23
SPANISH INQUlsITIoN.

EXTRACT OF letter dated Y GtenciG, sept. z.
e Words are wanting to express my
4 Feelings, and to convey to you an idea Of
The scenes OF horror and blood represent
ed in this Inflated city. No cannibals
themselves could scarcely be such Zero
cious and inhuman instruments of power,
81 act as the declared enemies of God and
man. How could you suppose, that a
civilized nation, 10 the 18th century,
should have monarch authorising acts
the most inhumau aud uDeard of, against
his own subjects, who had restored to him
what he had cowardly abandoned How
could it be imagined 10 Europe, that q
4 captain general, by virtue OF the order OF
lhe war minister, should have the baseness,
I III military manner, to destroy the high.
;s Isl tribunal Of The province, and at his
own will bury in prisons and 10 dungeons
some hundreds Of victims, aud cause
dreadful tortures TO De applied 90 more
than hundred persons? Yet all this is
n passing in Valencia at this moment, as we
understand, with the applause and salts
faction of the Spanish ministry. My pen
drops from my hand when attempt to de-
sacrihe TO you the horrid and excruciating
torments which Elio has imposed on / 10
persons, of all classes, ages, sexes and
Conditions, he himself being present at the
/ greatest part of these abominable punish
ments in order that by his. captious and
tiesigning questions he might be able to
rend from them the secret OF a revolution
which he imagined would take place in
Valencia. The inquisition, however, acts
with still greater horror towards these
Victims. Some have had their arms and
5legs disIocated with irons Of a new iuven-
tion: others have been pressed down with
heavy weights, placed on the breast and
belly; others have had their nails pluck
led out one by one, in order to prolong
ktheir sulferings. Even lady, lately de
Jivered of twins, has been separated from
bier family, and cast into one Of the most
dismal dungeons of the Holy Office, mere
sfly because information against her was
lodged by wicked character who declar.
+ ed that she knew great deal respecting
the imaginary revolution. Elio himself
a went to the inquisition to interrogate her
and she was exposed to species of dis.
graceful torture, of which even in this
country, we have no example. She was
i bound by the legs and arms with harsh
ropes, on an uneven cradle Of iron, and
u finding that in this painful attitude she
did not give declarations conformably Il
the questions proposed to her, scaldins
water was poured on her naked limbs
This unfortunate heroine expired amidst
the greatest agonies, frantic with the re-
membrance Of her twin children, only 81
days old, and cursing the tyranny of Fer.
dinand and his atrccious satellites. This
lady was one Of the heroines of Valencis
against the attacks of Marshal Money.
This scene has been diyulged by one o.
the dependents on the inquisitioD, less in
human than the rest, and the weeping re-
lations of this female martyr to freedom
are now deploring her loss. So great has
been the horror and fury excited in the
whole city Of Valencia by this painful af
fair, that it is visible 10 the countenance
Of every Individual. No doubt it will
excite the same sensations throughout the
whole Kingdom y