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Article A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE ASIATICS AND FRENCH. ← Page 4 of 4 Article THE QUEEN OF FRANCE AND THE DAUPHIN. Page 1 of 2 →
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A Comparison Between The Asiatics And French.
world , it is still harder for such a man to kindle the flames of civil war through a happy tranquil country . —As to the insecurity of property , that assertion is totally false . The celebrated traveller Tavernjer , who was an ocular witness , relates the history of the ' succession of a Frenchman , who died at Madraspatam , under the jurisdiction of the mogul -. his effects were returned with the most
scrupulous exactness to Paris , to the heir who never knew the death of his parent , but by entering into the possession of his property . " This is not the only example , " says this traveller , " which I " can cite ofj the exact order established in the ' se parts for the pre" servation of the property of a strangerof whatever nationwho
, , " should happen to die either in Persia , Turkey , or the Indies ; " for if the goods fall into the hands of Mahometans , they lock " them up ; and even if the g-oods are perishable , no one is per" mitted " to touch them but the right owner , known to be such by " the most ineontestible proof , lest they should be impostors . I " doubt whether in many parts of our Europe , " says he , " there
" appears , on like occasions , so much sincerity and exactness . "I ought not to pass over , " says the equitable Chardin , " that " there is in Persia a court fiscal , which has commissioners in every " p lace to preserve the goods of intestates , and those who die with- < " out heirs ; they call this court , Beikelmal , the house for un- > " claimed goods . This court has it's officers and jurisdiction , the ' " chief of which is called Berthelmalgi , president of the fiscal . "
The Queen Of France And The Dauphin.
THE QUEEN OF FRANCE AND THE DAUPHIN .
THE fate of the unfortunate Antoinette , cannot fail to call ' fresh sentiments of pity , in every breast , alive to those sensations which are allied to humanity . Whatever may have been her former errors ; are they , among , the candid and the feeling , a subject for reflection at the present
awful moment ? let every parent picture the agonies of the royal siiff- ' ererer , when , in obedience to the stern commands of bloodthirsty men , her son was torn from her feeble hold ! let them imagine the horrors of her foreboding mi ltd on the soul-rending occasion : and if they consider , that the deed was performed , upon the plea of public safety they must be sensiblethe tortured Queen
, could harbour but one fear , —and that , the dreadful one , —of an ETERNAL SEPARATION 1 . The writer of these reflections is himself a parent , the only p ledge of mutual affection , left him by a Saint in Heaven , is taken away : but not by the hand of violence ; — not by oppressive
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A Comparison Between The Asiatics And French.
world , it is still harder for such a man to kindle the flames of civil war through a happy tranquil country . —As to the insecurity of property , that assertion is totally false . The celebrated traveller Tavernjer , who was an ocular witness , relates the history of the ' succession of a Frenchman , who died at Madraspatam , under the jurisdiction of the mogul -. his effects were returned with the most
scrupulous exactness to Paris , to the heir who never knew the death of his parent , but by entering into the possession of his property . " This is not the only example , " says this traveller , " which I " can cite ofj the exact order established in the ' se parts for the pre" servation of the property of a strangerof whatever nationwho
, , " should happen to die either in Persia , Turkey , or the Indies ; " for if the goods fall into the hands of Mahometans , they lock " them up ; and even if the g-oods are perishable , no one is per" mitted " to touch them but the right owner , known to be such by " the most ineontestible proof , lest they should be impostors . I " doubt whether in many parts of our Europe , " says he , " there
" appears , on like occasions , so much sincerity and exactness . "I ought not to pass over , " says the equitable Chardin , " that " there is in Persia a court fiscal , which has commissioners in every " p lace to preserve the goods of intestates , and those who die with- < " out heirs ; they call this court , Beikelmal , the house for un- > " claimed goods . This court has it's officers and jurisdiction , the ' " chief of which is called Berthelmalgi , president of the fiscal . "
The Queen Of France And The Dauphin.
THE QUEEN OF FRANCE AND THE DAUPHIN .
THE fate of the unfortunate Antoinette , cannot fail to call ' fresh sentiments of pity , in every breast , alive to those sensations which are allied to humanity . Whatever may have been her former errors ; are they , among , the candid and the feeling , a subject for reflection at the present
awful moment ? let every parent picture the agonies of the royal siiff- ' ererer , when , in obedience to the stern commands of bloodthirsty men , her son was torn from her feeble hold ! let them imagine the horrors of her foreboding mi ltd on the soul-rending occasion : and if they consider , that the deed was performed , upon the plea of public safety they must be sensiblethe tortured Queen
, could harbour but one fear , —and that , the dreadful one , —of an ETERNAL SEPARATION 1 . The writer of these reflections is himself a parent , the only p ledge of mutual affection , left him by a Saint in Heaven , is taken away : but not by the hand of violence ; — not by oppressive