176 POLL EVIL. 



miilgate the consistency of gkitting them 

 with the most powerful P(^isons, as if he felt 

 some invincible antipathy to the species, and 

 had attentively studied tlie most likely 

 means of-eiTecting their total extirpation ! 

 For the compieti'on of this business, lest the 

 most destructive poisons should prove inef- 

 fectual, you are instructed to add fuel to 

 their natural fire, by combining their whole 

 force, and pouring them '^ scalding hot,'* 

 nearest to one of the most vital parts (nay 

 nearest the original nervous seat of pain), 

 even the brain itself. Sor^y I am to ac- 

 knowledo;e this <>:enuiiie and unadulterated 

 specimen of the immaculate perfection of the 

 - PRACTICAL TREATLSE^' has been re- 

 peatedly put in practice by fools or 

 knaves, whom ignorance has misled or con- 

 fidence betrayed ; to the evident destruction 

 of numbers that have died in the most ex^ 

 cruciatini;^ a^-onies, sinkino; under the load of 

 accumulated misery and persecution, devot- 

 ed victims to a sy>stem replete with the most 

 unparalleled cruelty that the heart could 

 dictate, ox the hand direct. 



Need I, can it be possibly necessary for 



