A View of the Life Travels And Philanthropic Labors of the Late John Howard E
A View of the Life Travels And Philanthropic Labors of the Late John Howard E
John Aikin
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" In de- {tending deep below ground, " fays Mr. How* ard, " I heard the moans of the miierable wretches in the dark dungeons. The fides and roof were allftone. In wetfeafons, water from the folTes gets into them, and has greatly damaged the floors. " " The dungeons in the new prifon are abodes of mifery dill more fliocking ; and confinement in them io overpowers human nature, as fometirnes irre coverably to take away the fenfes. I heard the cries of the diffracted as I went down to them. " Sure...ly the Liegois cannot be blamed for endeavouring to place civil authority in dif- ferent hands from tliofe who thus outraged the feelings of human nature ! The additional notices of France are d. Ftin- guifhed by an account of the Baftille, extracted from a fcarce pamphlet, which Mr. Howard procured, not without hazard, and a translation of the whole of which he like wife printed. He had reafon to believe, that this expofure to all Europe of the horrid fecrets of this " prifon- hou "e, " was a caufe that his after viiits to that country were attended with no fmall d inger to his liberty ; and it was once not improbable that Mr.
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