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But even these means have proved insufficient; and the poor wretches, whom hunger had driven or artifice seduced into the deeds of death, have fallen so fast, that Crimping has been found necessary. Crimping has been established into a trade, and accompanied with such an apparatus of horrors, as would arm Mercy with the thunderbolt. The Irish[1] Regiment, recently landed at Pill near this City is a melancholy instance—By long confinement and by filth they have almost ceased to resemble men. My Brethren! they who authorize or connive at such enormities, retain still less resemblance!
Lastly, in this inventory of guilt as the immediate and peculiar effect of the present War, and justly attributable to our Ministry, we matt place the excesses of the French, their massacres and blasphemies, all their crimes and all their distresses. This effect the War produced by a two-fold operation of terror:—First, on the people of France, secondly, on their Rulers.
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- ↑ They who wish to mangle their feelings by perusing the particulars of this complicated wickedness, are referred to a Pamphlet of William Bryant, who himself attended on, and medically relieved these disfigured wretches.
