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CRUELTIESTOWARDS THEJEWS. 135these poor peopleha.venothingleft them to he rohhed of, as they hadÏll fOll1~)~r dayswith usathome; still they are the butt of fanaticism;~and it need not be said how quick and ready is the mode of conveyingand diffusing aDidea, herementioned.It is too like what we l'ead ofin fol'merdays in our own annals.Histol'Y indeed, which, stalkirig inthe bllskin, consults everin the firstplace herown dignity, passesbythese minutire in elevated silence;--and so 1l1uch for·· ber authority!But chronicles, which content themselves with conveying plain truthand information, tell harrowing tales, fully rivalling at least a Saint Bartllolomewfestival.When the Jews were ripe for a squeezing, the commencementof the process was the murder of a child, which, poor victim!wasthrowninaditch;and on discovery, readily made no doubt,whose door was there to lay itat but that of a Jew? The charge,lDurder and blasphemy, conviction and execution, in one vast sweepingclause against the whole of the nation within reach, followed of course.They neverappear ta have looked tb eitber~vindication or compromise,knowing indeedwell, from long experience, that such was never intendedto be their lot.And as ta mercy, they were perfectly awarethat waseven yet ful'ther oft';save and except such a merey as they recéi:vet:lfr(c)mthe virtue ofaRoman imperial conqueror. AU their IaterhistO'l'y»ai'Qrds,howeV,(i)f, a curic>us (i)xample of that persev(i)ring follyand infatuatiol'l.wh~~h+·'c.anindtlCe m(i)n toaccumulate propertY~Wh(i)Ilmarked by ç,a.u»cxclusion from weight in the politica! scal(i)~ and whichcansohlind men'as to pr(Went tbeirs(i)eing how 'Ïnfinitelyp:referable,under sncb acirc'U:.stanee'Jis.tl]a!t pverty whi,ch Îs theîcr on1y possiblesh~eld,where riches lètrtsolelywitnrtheir QWI1l weight are weakn(i)ss.1~h(i) Inquis)ition thnsmaystiti not waut food h(i)re. ffbepeople of theprovinces on the side of the MeditelTan(i)ànar(i) h91'S d'odeu1' de ~ainteté,;,..,fro~n an aHeged mixture of :Moorish blood. The I\Htuguese are chargcd