danger fends to create irs: vHe minds of Ihefe and -other tfaVdlarSj w-ouM'- 

 render them^ only more If^ble ta fall into' ike- fn'are. Lefs^perftia^cHi- 

 would be requisite fd' induce 'thera to-joirs '-i'-p'nty ■ai''P%an?i'gd9sf 

 ' prompted by the belief that they were thus providing^ ia the molt ef«» 

 fedual manner, for their own fafetyV >?\ i -b 



Wh^y cohftitutes the mod Qdlomie^tM'ln'^iiie'^^m^SHVt^M 

 murderers, is; that prodigal as they are of human life,' tHey efati rarely* 

 cHim ffie ber?efit of even the palliating circumftcince bf" flrbn»'p'i6ciini-^ 

 ary terhptatioiti. "they are equall^" ftWngers' to co%piiflit)ti 'anW'Ve- 

 mor^e---they afe'nev&r reftralned fi-ofri'tHe ciommiiTion of crimes by' 

 coiiimire'fation for the enforlun'ate ' traveller —-aiid" they are '^xieriipted' 

 from the 'corlipuniSlious vifirirt|,^ of co^rcien'ce, "wHich tim^lly foilo^^, ' 

 foone^'orYater, the fteps df gililte '' Fharisi^C thq^'^ofifcrvy'^wiS 

 cdici' mdifference blendeH Witlt a degree' of fur prize, whea^'^quehldhed ■ 

 on this fiibje6l, " is their 6iifznefs /' which; i^iiH reference to the' tenets 

 of fdt^iiffn'^ th^e)!'* CbJic^iV6 " therhfelY^s " to have feefin pfe^'rdafnjd"' to ' 

 fbtloW, ■ 'B9 kti spipliCation "of the\fame doitrinej they hate co^'pared 

 ihemfi^ivesi not'insp'tly, totigi^rsf maintaining, thkt as thefe ferocroui 

 .beafls arfe'in^'^elled by irrefiflibli^ neceffiiy, and fiilHi the defigns of na- ■ 

 tfire tn preythg on o\her animstlsj fo t\i6' appropria'te virtirns "Of 'the 

 P'Miri^g^'^ ire mehV'^hd that' the deftiny of thofe ^hom they kill^ 

 ^* W^s-ivrltten-ori^their forebeads.^' 



This ftate of moral in fenfibility and debafement is yet calculated to 

 give birth to pity, while it aggravates the horror witli whicli we con-] 

 template their atrocities. It ought not to be forgotten, that linlike ma- 

 ny who adopt criminal courfes, the Fhdnsigars h|id not previoufly to 

 diveft themfelves of upright principles — to oppofe their praflice to 

 their feelings : but that, on the contrary, having been trained up froni 

 their childhood to the profcfliony they acquired h»-bics unfuting theai 



