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BARBAUITY. 
cian on Monday next in the Hayniarket. He is to be spoken with at 
the Black Raven, in Golden-lane, every day from seven to twelve, and 
from twelve all day long.” 
Although it might be supposed morally impossible that mankind 
could be so egregiously imposed on, yet the scheme took, and, on 
the evening of exhibition, the house was crowded with nobility-and 
gentry of both sexes. About seven o’clock the house was lighted, 
and the audience sat a considerable time without even the amusement 
of a single fiddle. Their patience being at length exhausted, a chorus 
of catcalls ensued, hastened by loud vociferations and beating of 
sticks ; when a man came from behind the curtain, and, bowing, said, 
that if the performer did not appear, the money should be returned. 
At the same time some person in the pit called out, that “ If the ladies 
and gentlemen would give him double prices, the conjurer would get 
into a pint bottle.” Soon after this, a young gentleman in one of the 
boxes, took a lighted candle, and threw it on the stage, w'hich alarm- 
ing the greater part of the audience, they made the best of their way 
out of the theatre, some losing their cloaks and hats, and others their 
wigs and swords. A party, however, staid in the house to demolish 
the inside, when the mob breaking in, they tore up the benches, 
broke the scenes, pulled down the boxes, and entirely demolished the 
theatre. 
Barbarity. 
A PLANTER in Virginia, who was owner of a considerable number 
of slaves, instead of regarding them as human creatures, and of the 
same species with himself, used them with the utmost cruelty, whip- 
ping and torturing them for the slightest faults. One of these, think- 
ing any change preferable to slavery under such a barbarian, attempted 
to make his escape among the mountain Indians, but unfortunately 
was taken and brought back to his master. Poor Arthur, this being 
his name, was immediately ordered to receive three hundred lashes. 
These w'ere to be given him by his fellow slaves, among whom there 
happened to be a negro which the planter had purchased on the 
preceding day. This slave, the moment he saw the unhappy wretch 
destined to the lashes, rushed forward, clasped him in his arms, and 
embraced him with the greatest tenderness ; the other returned his 
transports, and nothing could be more moving than their mutual 
bemoaning each other’s misfortunes. Their master was soon given to 
understand that they were countrymen and intimate friends ; and that 
Arthur had formerly, in a battle with a neighbouring nation, saved the 
life of his friend at the expense of his own. The newly purchased 
negro threw himself at the planter’s feet with tears, beseeching him, 
in the most moving manner, to spare his friend, or, at least, to let 
him undergo the punishment in his stead, protesting that he would 
rather die ten thousand deaths, than lift his hand against him. But 
the haughty planter, looking on this as an affront to the absolute power 
he pretended over them, ordered Arthur to be immediately tied to a 
tree, and his friend to give him the lashes ; telling him, that for every 
lash not well laid on, he should himself receive a score* The negro. 
