The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

To the PRINTER:

OUR correspondent E. F. is, in every particular, right with regard to the unlucky wretches, who were tortured to death for the crime of poverty. I was at the time in Bengal. But E. F. has forgot another ingenious mode of torturing the human species, at least such of them as are supposed, like Montezuma, to conceal their money from rapine. No less than twelve triangles are set up in the Court-yard of the Palace of Murdavar, where the ears of our resident and our Nabob are gratified with the perpetual sound of the scourge, and the shrieks of expiring men! ---If the representatives of the British nation will overlook such proceedings, let Amboyna be forgotten, and let us talk no more of the Spaniards in their conquest of Mexico and Peru! The punishment of the dogs which E. F mentions is rather worse in Bengal than it formerly was in Cuba. It I remember well, the Indians of the West were only hunted down by dogs; they had by being left loose some chance of making their escape: But our East-Indian has no such advantage. He is bound to a beam, and obliged to bear the gradual gnawing of the voracious animal.

SOUJA DOULAH.