could not refrain from deploring the wellknown truth, in lamentations
which were re-echoed from all parts of Christendom. The formula of the
sentence of torture began thus, _Christo nomine invocato_; and it was
therein expressed, that the torture should endure as long as it pleased
the inquisitors; and a protest was added, that, if during the torture
the culprit should die, or be maimed, or if effusion of blood or
mutilation of limb should ensue, the fault should be chargeable to the
culprit, and not to the inquisitors. The culprit was bound by an oath of
secresy, strengthened by fearful penalties, not to divulge any thing
that he had seen, known, or heard, in the dismal precincts of that
unholy tribunal--a secresy illegal and tyrannical, but which constituted
the soul of that monstrous association, and by which its judges were
sheltered against all responsibility.--_For. Rev._

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COLONIZATION.

In the colonization of the West Indies, "when a city was to be founded,
the first form prescribed was, with all solemnity, to erect a gallows,
as the first thing needful; and in laying out the ground, a site was
marked for the prison as well as for the church."

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"An attempt to handle the English law of evidence, in its former state,"
says the _Edinburgh Review_, "was like taking up a hedgehog--all
points!"

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