Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

April 29. One of the greatest examples of savage cruelty the annals of mankind can produce, may be seen in the conduct of two men lately executed at Brussels. After gagging the husband and wife of the house they were resolved to plunder, in order to revenge themselves of the husband, who, in his struggle to break his cords, and prevent the robbery, happened to strike the legs of one of those hardened wretches, he immediately snatched an infant then in the cradle, and threw it into the oven, where this poor family were baking bread: the villains then threw fresh faggots into the grated part of it, and, as the father has since deposed upon oath, they drew it out at last with the baking hook, and, in wantonness of unexampled barbarity, tore it to pieces before the faces of the agonized parents, whom they pelted with the lacerated limbs. At what point will the human heart stop, when every principle of nature, religion and law, are broken down and trodden upon?