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30 TttAVELs IN EUROPE.selves of a procéssion of the kind 'herementioned, to bestowan ade...qtiate number of lashes on themselves in honour of their mistresses.But the lady, llloreprovident'thall Hudibras"s widow, or her prototypeDulcinea deI Toboso, took dire to stàndat her 'balcony tosee them in..fticted herself. The pink of gâllantry waS when the,·lôver succeeded in.besprinkling his fair one with his bJood ; and very ingenious modes ofincreasing the intensity of the operation of the taws were resorted toaccordingly. 'rbis order, if it aspire to thedenomination, appears,likemonachism, to have crept into the Christian church from Egypt, thatgreat hot-hed of superstition. However, the mutatis mltfa~ldis procerIure must he adopted here to a considerable extent.The reHgiousprinciple, innate in buman nature and run wild in Egypt, produced inthat gloomy people, under the modification of bigotry, ,seclusion andpenance.Here, in the hot heads of the South ofPrance, if assumesthat of enthusiasm; from this, no wonder ifit degenerat~sintofanati..cism, for there is but a step to go.Hence, in their day, the dreadfultransactions of Toulouse, wherefrom Voltaire derives the debt of gr~ti..tude his country owes him-" 0 si sic omnia /" The principle gfdis'8ent,or Spil'it of contrariety, or whatever denomination may hegiven to it,was of course equally tenacious in its hold and vigorous. in its growthhere.The warfare in support of orthodoxy, in this tract of bis domi..nions, cost Louis XIV. what he could ill spare,-many thousands of hishest troops.U nder a commander of great eminence theycould effect,.litne in a midnight warfare againstCami:sards, eachof' whom carriedwithin his own breast his 'connsel and principle of action, standing tohim in the stead of chiefs and supplies.These insurgents had gottencomplete possession of the open country, confining the other populationwithin the walls of the cities, between which the comlllunication cooldonly he carried on by caravarrs and escort.'\'; and this too at a time