many years at Lisbon, can assure you that all public malefactors, are no where more tenderly lamented at the place of execution than here, by this very people; and even when there appears nothing inhuman in the manner of their deaths.

Whatever I have advanced of this cruel tribunal in regard to the Auto da Fe at Lisbon, it is upon my own knowledge; having been present at several and as for the other particulars, I am obliged to the account published by Mr. Limborch, of whose veracity we have the tesminony of Dr. Geddes; and the following letter of the Right Rev. Dr. Wilcox, lord bishop of Rochester, then chaplain to the English factory at Lisbon, sent to Dr. Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury, dated January 15, 1706, N. S. and has since been published by his lordship's allowance and approbation; which abundantly confirms the foregoing narrative:

"MY LORD,

"In obedience to your lordship's commands of the 10th ult. I have here sent all that was printed concerning the last Auto da Fe. I saw the whole process, which is agreeable to what is published by Limborch, and others, upon that subject. Of the five persons condemned, there were but four burnt: Antonio Javanes, by an unusual reprieve, being saved after the procession. Heytor Dias and Maria Pineyra, were burnt alive, and the other two first strangled. The execution was very.

cruel. The woman was alive in the flames half an hour, and the man above an hour. The present king and his brothers were seated at a window so near, as to be addressed for a considerable time in very moving terms by the man as he was burning. But though the favor he begged was only a few more faggots, yet he was not able to obtain it. The wind being a little fresh, the man's

hinder parts were perfectly wasted; and as he turned himself, his ribs opened before he left speaking, the fire being recruited as it wasted to keep him just in the same degree of heat. But all his entreaties could not procure him a larger allowance of wood to shorten his misery, and to dispatch him.”

It is generally understood that the Inquisition is entirely abolished in those countries were it was ever erected. But the learned Dr. Buchanan, who had several interviews with Joseph a Doloribus, a priest; and the second inquisitor at Goa, places it beyond the least shadow of doubt, that the Inquisition now exists, with all its horrors, at Goa, in the East Indies.

I had already discovered, from written or printed documents, (says Buchanan) that the Inquisition at Goa was

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suppressed by royal edict, in the year 1775, and established again in 1779.— The Franciscan friar beforementioned, (Joseph a Doloribus) witnessed the annual Auto da Fe, from 1770 to 1775. "It was the humanity, and tender mercy of a good king," said the holy father, "which abolished the Inquisition." But immediately on his death, the power of the priests acquired the ascendency, under the queen dowager, and the tribunal was established after a bloodless interval of five years, and has continued in operation ever since, to the present day, without any interval or relaxation of its bloody purposes.

The viceroy of Goa has no authority over the the Inquisition, and he himself is liable to its censures. Were the British government, for instance, to prefer a complaint against the Inquisition, to the Portuguese government at Goa, it would obtain no redress. By the very institution of the Inquisition,

there is no power in India which can invade its jurisdiction, or even put a question to it on any subject. Monsieur Dellon, a physician, was imprisoned in the dungeons of the Inquisition two years, and witnessed an Auto da Fe, when some heretics were burned; at which he walked barefoot. After his release he wrote the history of his confinement. His descriptions are very ac

curate.

The narrative of Dellon, describing the Auto da Fe at Goa, was shewn to the Inquisitor, Joseph a Doloribus, and when the holy father was asked his opinion as to the circumstances stated as facts, he answered that, now the Inquisitiors were not so severe, that the tortures were meliorated since Dellon wrote his narrative. The holy father was then asked, "if since the tortures were meliorated, perhaps permission might be obtained to view the dungeons and engines of torture?" the holy fa