148 Dr. Barites on the PUajure foretimes felt 
I will not mention the horrid joy, with which 
the favage feafts his eye upon the agonies and 
contortions of his expiring prifoner—expiring in 
all the pangs which artificial cruelty can inflict! 
Nor will I turn your eye to the almoft equally 
favage fons of antient Rome, when the majefty 
of the Roman people could rufh, with eagernefs 
and tranfport, to behold hundreds of Gladiators 
contending in fatal conflict, and, probably, more 
than half the number extended, weltering in 
blood, and writhing in agony, upon the plain. 
Nor will I mention the Spanifh Bull-Feafts; nor 
the fervent acclamations of an Englifh Mob 
around their fellow-creatures, when engaged in 
furious battle, in which it is poffible, that fome 
of the combatants may receive a mortal blow, 
and be hurried, dreadful thought! in this awful 
(late, to the bar of his Judge. 
Let us furvey the multitudes, which, in every 
part of the kingdom, always attend an execution „ 
It may perhaps be laid, that, in all places, the 
vulgar have little of the fenfibility and tendernefs 
of more pGlifhed bofoms. But, in the laft- 
mentioned inftance, an execution, there is no¬ 
exultation in the fufferings of the poor criminal. 
He is regarded by every eye, with the mod 
melting companion. The whole affcmbly 
fympathizes with him, in his unhappy fituation. 
An awful ftillnefs prevails, at the dreadful 
moment. Many are wrung with unutterable 
fenfations :• 
