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Rh was not perverted? It is a melancholy absurdity, that a small number of people should condemn as criminal, a man judged innocent by a whole nation, and worth their esteem!

AURIGNY and Balthazar Gerard, who assassinated William I. prince of Orange; Clement, the Dominican, Chatel, Ravaillac, and all the other parricides of those times, went to confession before they committed their crimes. Fanaticism, in that deplorable age, was carried to such excess, that confession was an additional engagement to the perpetration of villainy; an engagement deemed sacred, because confession is a sacrament.

STRADA himself says, that Jaurigny ''non ante facinus aggredi sustinuit quam expiatam necis animam apud Dominicanum sacerdotem cœlesti pane firmaverit.