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curtain. The preacher having arrived at 

 the proper part of his sermon, describing the 

 agonies of Christ, stamped his feet, and at 

 the second stamp the sombre veil fell from 

 before the figure, whilst a discharge of can- 

 non without announced the supposed con- 

 vulsion of nature ; and the apparently bleed- 

 ing figure, surrounded by numerous lights, 

 was suddenly exposed to the general gaze. 

 The effect of all this performance was so 

 successful, that many of the females shrieked 

 and fainted. Shortly after, the figure was 

 taken down and carried to a sepulchre gaily 

 adorned, and having the representation of a 

 Roman sentinel sitting on the top. After 

 the sermon. Colonel Hieux and myself walk- 

 ed into the body of the church, and were 

 immediately presented with long wax tapers, 

 intimating the necessity of joining the pro- 

 cession about to pass through the town, to 

 which we did not object, as it afforded us 

 the opportunity of seeing the whole popula- 



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