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Algeria

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
November
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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nost terrible torturej but which was but nn i commencement of his ngonies.- . arcely had they reaclied the extremity the ÜtieSi when a lotid voice criëd - . 'o the oven! to the oven!" The ,)i3 oítker, nlthough hnlf dend with e(j, j, heard these wördsj and ij y them, threw around him a {en ig and terrible look. "To the oven!" ] peated a hundred voices. His features tifi suttled a cadaverous hue, his Hi , he groahed in agony, and piteously ba( ead for mercy, but the loud shouts of w' e soldiery drowhed his vöiöe, ahd Gued.,00 lofT, approaching ihe unfortunate wretcn, ]q id to hinrt in a savagc tone: er "I too, begged for mercy when my etl rother feil beneath the blows of the h nöüt." H # We will pass over this terrible scène - c nhappiiy ióo true - leaving to the imainatioh of the reader, what the pêndare ot trace. The blood curdles at the bare act that General L - - eff, and all the t uperiors of the corps Vere ëhclosed in s ivens, heaied by a slow fire, nnd there c vere literally roasted alive! This d :ution was a frightful originalityj ond it d vas deemed meet thái is expiation shoüld e so nlso. A röyal courier carried to the . or an nccöiint of tha terrible drama; ( md cight lidürs after there entered into Novgorod several balalions of artillery, , summoned in haste from Vyshnei-Volo; shok: They had been preceded by a or General, who had seved in the Polish ; campaig'h ünder the title of the Warsaw executidner Öne of his aids delivered to the rebels the order that they were to nssemble unarmed, at the place situated at the western extremity of the bity, called the "Field of Tarlars." The soldiers meiely replied to this mysterious ord?r, with their invariable caracho, [good] which is adHiirably eipressive of their chartcter of indiiTorence ahd serVility. - Gathering up their casques and twifüng iheir moustaches- as thouh merely preparing for parade - they look their way acrb'ss the city under a strong guard of Cössack?, pale and silent,r with lips blai)clied with emotion; they yet presërved an admirable regularity in their ranks ns they marciiëd turbugh, followed by tho mournful gare of the inhabitants; Afrived at the designaed spot, théy nrrai.ged I themselves wilhout theslightest noise or confusión. At this moment the music sounded, thebells df the numerous Greek

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Signal of Liberty
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