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head quarters at Albrandadt, where he continued three 
months, bound to a flake with a heavy chain of iron. 
Ke was then conducted to Cafimir, where Charles or¬ 
dered him to be tried; and he was by his judges found 
guilty. His fentence depended upon the king ; and, af¬ 
ter having been kept a prifoner fome months uncertain of 
h.is fate, he was, on the 28th of September, 1707, towards 
the evening, delivered into the cuftody of a regiment of 
dragoons; next day, the colonel took the chaplain of his 
regiment afide, and, telling him that Patkul was to die 
the following day, ordered him to acquaint him with his 
fate and prepare him for it. About this very time he 
was to have been married to a Saxon lady of great qua¬ 
lity, virtue, and beauty ; a circutndance which renders 
his cafe flill more affe&ing. 
On the 30th of September, he was put into a coach, 
guarded by one hundred horfeman. Being arrived at 
the place of execution, he found it furrounded by three 
hundred foot-foldiers. At the fight of the flakes and 
wheels, his horror is not to be defcribed ; for of the 
manner of his death he had not been informed. After 
praying mofl fervently, he bade the executioner do his 
duty well, and put into his hands fome money which he 
got ready for that purpofe. He then flretched himfelf 
out upon the wheel; and while they were flripping him 
naked, he begged the chaplain to pray that God would 
have mercy on him, and bear up his foul in agony. He 
did fo ; and turning to all the fpeClators, faid to them, 
“ Brethren, join with me in prayer for this unhappy man.” 
“ Yes (cried he), aflid me all of you with your fupplica- 
tions to heaven.” Here the executioner gave him the 
firll flroke. His cries were terrible : “ O Jefus ! Jefus ! 
have mercy upon me.” This cruel fcene was much 
lengthened out, and of the utmoll horror; for as the 
headfman had no fkill in his bufinefs, the unhappy vic¬ 
tim received fifteen feveral blows, with each of which 
were intermixed the mod piteous groans and invoca¬ 
tions of the name of God. At length, after two flrokes 
given on the bread, his drength and voice failed him. 
In a faltering dying tone, he was jud heard to fay, 
“Cutoff my head;” and, the executioner dill linger¬ 
ing, he himfelf placed his head on the fcaffold : after 
four drokes with an hatchet, the head was feparated from 
the body, and the body quartered. Such was the end of 
the renowned Patkul. 
Charles XII. has been very generally and feverely cen- 
fured for not pardoning him, and we are not inclined to 
vindicate the fovereign. Yet it mull be remembered, 
that Patkul was guilty of a much greater crime than 
that which drew upon him the difpleafure of Charles XI. 
Ke incited foreign powers to attack his country when 
under the government of a boy, hoping, as he faid him¬ 
felf, that it would in fuch circumdances become an eafy 
conqued. He was therefore a rebel of the word kind ; 
and where is the abfolute monarch that is ready to par¬ 
don fuch unnatural rebellion? Nothing, however, can 
palliate the unfeeling barbarity of putting the veteran to 
the rack. The monarch was one of the credulous phi- 
lofophers of the time, who believed in the poffibility of 
difcovering the methods of tranfmuting the bafer metals 
into gold. Patkul, while under fentence of death, con¬ 
trived fo far to impofe on the fenate at Stockholm, as to 
perfuade them that he had, in their prefence, converted 
to gold a quantity of lefs precious metal. An account of 
the"experiment was tranfmitted to the king, accompanied 
with a petition for the life of fo valuable a fubjeCt; but 
Charles, blending magnanimity with feverity, replied, 
that he would not do that for intered which he had re¬ 
filled at the call of humanity and the intreaties of friend- 
Ihip. 
PATLADAH', a circar of Bengal: bounded on the 
north.-ead by Carribarry, on the fouth and fouth-ead by 
Dacca, and on the wed by Goragotand Illamabad; about 
thirty miles long, and fixteen broad. The chief towns 
are Chilmary and Dewangunge. 
PAT 
PAT'LY, adv. [from pat.'] Commodioufly; fitly.— 
Which words how patly, how livelily, do they fet out 
our Saviour’s being nailed to the crofs. Barrow. 
, PAT'MOS, in ancient geography, an ifland in the Gre¬ 
cian archipelago, now denominated by navigators St. 
Jean de Patino, celebrated in ecclefiadical liidory, on ac¬ 
count of its being the place of St. John’s exile, and dill 
more from the revelations and vifions w’hich he received 
there, and which form the fubjeCls of the Apocalypfe, or 
Revelation. At prefent it exhibits little more than 
arid rocks. A grotto in the rock, now converted into a 
church, is pointed out as the fpot where that apodle wrote 
the Apocalypfe. This church belongs to a convent, the 
abbot of which is prince of the illand, and pays annually 
1000 crowms.to the grand fignior, befides prefents to the 
capitan pacha. This prince-abbot was vifited by Dr. 
Clarke, who informs us, (Travels, vol. vi.) that the li¬ 
brary of the convent is a fmall oblong chamber, with a 
vaulted done roof; he found it to be nearly filled with 
books of all fizes in a mod negleCted date; fome lying 
upon the floor, a prey to the damp and worms; others 
flanding confufedly on the (helves, which were printed 
volumes, fome of which were well bound, and in good 
condition ; but neither of the fuperiors of this college was 
able to read. At the extremity of the chamber he found 
a heap of Greek MSS. fome of which were of the highed 
antiquity; amongd other fpecimens of Grecian calli¬ 
graphy, he found a copy of the twenty-four fird Dialogues 
of Plato, written upon vellum, in the fame exquifite cha¬ 
racter, which remained in the hands of his friend profef- 
for Porfon until his death. But it is now, with the 
other MSS. from Patinos, See. in the Bodleian library at 
Oxford. 
This ifland is little more than fix leagues in circuit; 
confiderably longer than broad, its direction being from 
north to fouth, and its form very irregular. Its coads 
are interfered by a variety of gulfs and coves, and are 
remarkable for the number of good harbours which they 
prefent to navigators, among which that of Scala is one 
of the fined in the Archipelago. But, notwithdanding 
the advantages which thefe harbours might afford it as a 
place of trade, it prefents to the view of the obferver a 
very wretched appearance. Valleys, which might infure 
abundance, are uncultivated; and, from their date of 
abandonment and nakednefs, offer, with the hills that 
furround them, only the fame alpeCl of ruggednefs and 
misfortune. Population, which follows in the train of 
agriculture and indudry, is here Angularly diminifhed ; 
and, while - the monaderies fwarm v/ith lluggards, the 
fields become deferts. Such is the account given of this 
defolate fpot by Sonnini. Although it is deditute of 
wood and rivers, and almod without gardens, its fpring- 
water is pure and its air healthy. The inhabitants are 
chiefly Greek Chridians, failors or fhip-builders, who 
fail as far as Venice, whither they carry cotton and dock¬ 
ings of their own manufacture. The ifland abounds 
with rabbits, pigeons, partridges, and quails. It is fix- 
teen miles fouth-wed of Samos. Lat. 37. 24. N. Ion. 26. 
24. E. 
PAT'MOUR, a town of Hindoodan, in Golconda: 
twenty-five miles north-north-eafl of Rachore. 
PAT'NA, a city of Hindoodan, and capital of the 
country of Bahar, and refidence of a governor. This 
is a very extenlive and populous city, built along the 
fouth fide of the Ganges, on an eminence. By this it is 
fecured from the inundations of the river, which would 
otherwife, at particular feafons, be highly prejudicial and 
dangerous. Having often been the feat of war,, (fee the 
article Hindoostan,) it is fortified in the Indian man¬ 
ner, with a wall and a fmall citadel. It is a place of very 
coniiderable trade. Mod of the faltpetre imported by 
the Ead-India Company is manufactured within the pro¬ 
vince of Bahar. It is a very ancient city; and probably 
its modern name may be derived from Paliputra, or Pa- 
telpoother, which we fuppofe to be the ancient Pali- 
bothra. 
