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TRENCH BJSriLE,fti consequence of the destruion of this dreadful fortress, the grave tf many miserable thousands, or rather millions of French subjects, such horrid scenes have come to light, as must make human nature even shrink at itself. .Our Parisian Correspondent has just -informed us, through the means of a wretched Captive who had been confined 47 years in those infernalregions of despotism, tyranny* and misery, thatwhen a prisoner was committed to that horrid place, he was immediately,confined in a solitary cell, where the sun could not penetrate; and whatever food might be allotted him, was servedby Mutes—It was death for either to speak !The emancipated author^of this narration, having however, by his good conduct, and the well-knOWh goodness of his heart, excited some feelings In the breast of one of the Under Officers of the Fortress, who had been a servant in his family* was one day permitted to walk on theplace of Massacre.He describes it to be a pleasant promenade, on which the devoted vidtim of tyranny is invited to walk for the benefit of the air. On approaching g particular part (the signal being given) it gives way, and he is at once immerged into a horrid gulph, where several hundred engines cut him to pieces 111When the polished Nation of France,- which ar-DOgantly boasts a consequence over all other Countries, and impudently dares to offer Liberty to distant worlds, and violate the sacred Laws ofJfetions, comes to investigate, as it ought to bedone, the ueret mysteries of the Bastile, howvpry little must the .Government of that country feel itself, when compared to any other exceptthat of this Turks IIIlt;If any French subje£ or-ofher person .missed a relative or friend, it was death even to inquire if lie was in thi Bastile,
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London Oracle
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Jul 20, 1789
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