Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-10-20

And they who watch the Sybl well
May profit by her spells BoS-RosNI.
MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW.
No country, perhaps, has produced more
martyrs than France after many cruelies
had been exercised towards the protestants,
there was most violent persecution of them
in 1852, in the reign of Charles TX. Many
of the principal Protestants were invited to
Paris, under solemn oath of safety, upon
the occasion of the marriage of the King of
Navarro with the French Kings sister,
The Queen Dowager OF Navarro, jealous
Protestant, was poisoned by pair of gloves
before the marriage was solemnzed. Col
igny, Admiral of France, was basely muir
dered in his own house, and then thrown
out of the window, to CRAFTY the malice of
the Duke of Guise his head was afterwards
cut off, and sent TO the king and queen
mother; and his body, after thousand in
dignties had been offered to it, hung up by
the feet on gibbet After this, the muir
derers ravaged the whole city of Paris and
butchered, in three days, above ten thous-
and lords, gentlemen, presidents. and peo-
pie Of all ranks. A horrible scene Of things,
says Thuanus, when the very streets and
passages resounded with the noise of those
who met together for murder and plumber
the groans of those who were dying, and the
shrieks Of such as we're Just going TO be
butchered, were heard; the bodies of the
slain thrown out Of windows, the courts and
chambers Of the houses filled with them, the
dead bodies of others dragged through the
streets, their blood running through the
channels in such plenty that torrents seemed
to empty themselves into the neighboring
river in word, an innumerable multitude
of men, women with child, maidens, chill
dren, were all involved in one common des-
truction, and the gates and entrances of the
kings palace were all besmeared with their
blood From the city of Paris, the massa.
ere spread throughout the whole kingdom
In the city Of Meaux, they threw above two
hundred into Jail (; and after they had ravish-
ed and killed great number of women, and
| plundered the houses Of the Protestants, they
executed their fury on those they had i'm.
prisoned; and, calling them one by one
they were killed, as Thuanus expresses it
like sheep in market. In Orleans, they
murdered above FIVE hundred men, won.
en-, and children, and enriched themselves
with the spoil. The same crueltes were
practiced at Anglers, Troyes, Bourges, Ia
Charlie, and especially at Lyons, where they
inhumanly destroyed eight hundred Protes
tants; children hanging on their mothers
necks, parents embracing their children
putting ropes about the necks of some, drag
ging them through the streets, and throwing
them mangled, torn and dead into the river
According TO Thuanus, above thirty thous
and Protestants were destroyed in this mas
sacre; or, as others affirm, above one hund
red thousand. But what aggravated thes,
most horrible scenes with much greater
wantonness and cruelty, was the manner il
which the news was received at Rome
When the letters of the Pope's legate wer,
read in the assembly of the cardinals, b,
which he assured The Pope that all was tran
sacted by the express will and command o
the King, it was Immediately decreed tina
the Pope should march with his cardinals Il
the Church of ST Marx, and in the most sol
emn manner give thanks TO God for so grea
a blessing conferred on the see Of Rom,
and the Christian world; aud that, on Oh,
Monday after, solemn Mass should be cele
brated in the Church of Minerva, at which
the Pope, Gregory Kill, and Cardinals
were present and that a jubilee should b,
published throughout the whole Christian
world, and the cause of it declared to be
TO render thanks to God for the exlirpatiol
of the enemies of The truth and Church il
France lin the evening the cannon Of ST
Angelo were fred, TO testify the public Joy
the whole city illuminated with bonfres $
and no one sign of rejoicing omitted that wa
usually made for the greatest victories oh
tanned in favor Of the Roman Church,
Rec. John Dowlag.