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The Amusing Chronicle, a Repository for Miscellaneous Literature; Consisting of Interesting Essays in Prose and Verse - Vol II from Jan 1 to May 1, in - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817. Excerpt: ... necessity of giving up his cash, and by this lima discovered this divine inspired gamester to be neither more nor less than a thief. His lorJship had in the course of his journey related the first part of this adventure; but the latter part he took great pains to conceal. AN OLD PORTUGUESE ANECDOTE. Pedro the First, the eighth king of Portugal, distinguished his reign by a steady and impartial administration of justice, by which he rendered his people no less happy than himself. The following instance of his equity and inflexibility is very remarkable. An ecclesiastic, in a high fit of passion, killed a mason whom he had employed, for not executing something agreeable to his mind. The king dissembled his knowledge of the crime, and left it to the cognizance of the proper courts, where the issue of the business was, that the priest was suspended from saying mass fox a year. At this slight punishment the family of the deceased was highly offended. The king caused it to be hinted to the mason's son, that he should kill the priest: he did so, and falling into the hands of justice, was condemned to suffer death; but as no capital sentence could be executed without the king's consent, this was laid before him among the rest: upon which he asked, " What was the young man's trade?" It was answered, " That he followed his father's." Then, said the king, " I shall commute this punishment, by restraining him from meddling with stone and mortar for a twelvemonth." After this affair he punished capital crimes in the clergy with death; and when they desired that his majesty would be pleased to refer their causes to a superior tribunal, he answered very calmly, " This is what I mean to do, for I send them to the highest of all tribunals, to that of) Their Maker and Mise...
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