The Diary of a Judge (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: race depicted by my friend as being either Tyrants or Dupes. It was my melancholy task, last Year, to consign this really excellent old man to the silent tomb. To me he left his little Library, a ring of value, which he had received, in token of approbation from the Emperor, and his papers. Amongst the latter, I found his official note book. From it I have selected the following pages. But as I cannot boast of being a perfect Linguist, I have at once to bespeak from the reader his kind indulgence should he perceive, in these extracts, those inaccuracies which will inevitably creep into every work of translation; more especially, when that translation is, as in the present case, the work of. An untried Author. North Devon, November ] 837. chapter{Section 4Apropos lo this stilijccI, I think it right to note a case, which occurred Were in 1798; from which, as I have Dow some leisure hour, I wilt give full extract. It appears, about that time t that this country was held it- terror by Banditti, known Jv the appellation of the Black gang! Their force turned out to amount, in all, to 96, at least that number were convicted. They were organized, regularly as soldiers; divided into thrte or four companies; acting simultaneously, in different parts; committing murders at distant points, at the same instant; they were looked upon as little abort of preternatural Beings. That some person of rank, must direct.their movements was evident; that some person mingling in society must conduct their plans, was universally believed. Victim, after victim, fell, with unerring success. The rich were plundered and destroyed; their journeys always foreseen, however secretly undertaken Their letters and couriers continually intercepted. The people almost feared that some infernal power prote...