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TBr ITALIAN IsQuIslrIoS-Thc nquisition here in the
civ of Venice aided by official inormcr and tribunals


became ono of the cruel engines tyranny Known
perhaps under government No mans life. liberty
or property was secure When fell under Suspicion
they were privately arrested, and in they
heard of Everything conducted with the
profound sccrccv-tlc accused victim knew the
tongue that betrayed him. the hand that stabbed
him Near the palace and separated only by canal
prison: this prison connected with the palace BY high
covered bridge called the Bridge of Sighs This bridge has
or had for it is closed up passes leading from
the prison into the council chambers and another leading
other more private and dungeons under the palace
itself These dungeons also accessible from the palace


v sccreet passage. which unknown the public until


e arena of apartments of death laid by the
French Indeed it is said that the citizens generally did
NOT know of the of these wrechcd cells Here
the trembling victims led the and death
We visited these gloomy prisons they dark night


and consisted each OF arch Of heavy masonry with
gle hole for the purpose Of respiration, &C. They had been
generally lined with wood but Napoleon permitted the citi
zens to enter and ell that movcnbe in these
lorrd cells Here grated window where the victims


used to be .tranged They seated upon block within,


and rope fastened end passed through the and
round the neck. and again machine by the turning ot
which the head and shoulders drawn up the grate
and the poor wretch sangcd by the cord that passed
round his neck Another place fitted up for decapta-
ton like guilotine The heavy knife, fitted to frame,
wa. raised by machinery to the proper distance thc victim
br;nS fixed in right poston when it fell and struck the
head from the BODY and trench the stone aud holes
made for the purpose, conveyed the blood down into the
wafer below All this done By night aud with the ut


nosr nrvacv and here the little arches in the wald


where the cxccutoncr placed his lamp while he performed
hs bloody work Fsks Travel. in Europe.