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AGENTS, '
tVilltam E Holley, Maryville, E.
! 0, IfWiamr, Colosse, New .York.
the snace of on hour, producing gen'
eral t error bud amngement. '
During tri« same'imrintf^tJferB \ver<
ntany dreadful earthquakes, some of
{hens in plaetfs where -such phe*i©uie-
na have since been unjveard of. AI
Rome, an earthquake tlnevv dbnn a
groat number of Houses, steqples.
and churches. A* NnnJos.’liere^jivas
an earlhqualftf* accompanied with .a
tremendous hurricane, which destroy
ed a large portion of the city. On
this occasion it is related, that tvljilc
a friar was preaching to a crowded
Qoiigrcgatimj. He and his auditory
were swallowed^!)!) in an instant—all
hut one individual who observed the
trembling »l llie earth iu time to suvo
himself by flight. A great muffjjjiWe
of the inhabitants, were huiifitf in the,
ruins of their* habitations; -and. the
citizens durst .not venture in Uij
houss, bn ('remained terrified in t
market places 0 fields, till the earth-;
quake (which Voptshued? by fits foi
eight days) had spent its Tory.
Greece, particularly in the More
and the Island o ’ Cypru«,whole vill?
ges were overwhelmed Even in Gei-
many, a country not liable to this ca
lamity, there was" an earthquake
which.extended over a groat part of
A stria and Syria, and destroyer
Ohrist«i»do»^ ii is recordady In’s re
port made to the pope at Avignon,
that it swept Away twentyithrce mill-
iAhs eight ktindfed thousand* fle> sons
throughout the East iu the course of
a single yeyr. While the Christians
rdtnaincd upouphed', thpir /supposed
unmunitv,.since their uei
.jyere
Ip
many towns and villages in those dis
tricts; ‘‘And many other provinces/
9 •* si»». * 1 1
ORBIT PLAGUE IN THE "C » old M«on.n, •‘.offir.d.ac!
lasting characters of the fury of thes<
ton
dpi
Ml TEEN j'H CENTURY.
1* uau«n<vMi> •*■(' lists (JlCdl 1 *‘*§140
Louilun Ins been rendered iinm oi .
ly the pfose of Daniel Defoe & , |, e
Iryof John Wilson.Bui the greater
lue whiidT overran. almost the
Ve world, Ihrrt'c cent ,j r J et h<•fore,
l'::s«t forgotten; A slight sketch
(history dra v p from «!d chson
», wilrshovv, fly corpparison, What
nail matter is magnified ‘into pes-
Neein the-present day.
1'ais dreadful pestilence, like the
llers, made its first appearance in
l&rtt. It arose in China, Tarta-
s, and Egypt, about the year
It was ascribed,by tbe tem-
my writers, Mexetay and Giov-
Viflao;, to-a general • corruption
■Atmosphere, uccompauied by
j'^psiirnwe of millions of small
psitl and other venomous insectg,
hi ather places, quantities 01
vermin, with inimerdus legs,
j hideous aspect, which filled the
with putrid ewhala^imis. Some
Nous Christian waiters ol the tune
Itived its origin from thi* arch im-
liter Mahomet; for l»»<*y say that,
I Mecca, in Arabia Felix, it rained
likes and, blood from lieaveu lor
reetfqys and.nights together; that
s temple of Mahimet >as beaten
uj.by a tarribl* tempest, and ni»
stton;' p*nvulaioni of nature that, les
the j.dnt concurrence of so many
authors of thoso days should not 00.
tain suffiinent c-edif, they might be
very plainly read evi n by late .pos
terity.” TliescVoarthquakrtS. were
genet ally atte nded -with storms of
1 bunder find li<>hining, wind and hail
In the year 13^8, according to Lam-
pa hits. it min'd blood in Germany,
and meteors and other corruscations
appea ed in the air. Mock suns i\ei e
seen, ami -the Heavens soaetimes
seemed on fi-e.
In many of these accounts Wo may
presume that there is a good deal of
exaggeration. But the testimonies
are too nurfiei'flus and respectable to.
leave any donb 1 that, before and du
ring the p&tilence Lie elements yve*e
in. a state of general c onvulsion which
sectij un aiailed in h s'.ory.
The plagun extended its ravages
fronx India into the more western
pans of Asia and ’Egypt, Abyssinia,
and thence into I lie northern part of,
Africa. It proceeded over* Asia Mi
nor, Greece, and the‘islbnds in (he
Afchipelngp, *diM< sXidcqpdpUtalln" t lie
regions oyer which it stalked. It
may be-iiferajly said tp have deem
aled the world, even,though vfe wt-rje
to (akfidtfiis term as iin'pljypg ’.lie de
struction of nine, in place of one duf
of ten According le Mezeray •& ot h-
suffering the extremity of the' inala*-
dy, -operated so strongly oiuthfi Blinds
of some oft he heathen pjl^ccs, (hat
thejf resolvid to propitiailf Heaven
hf ^rmbraciig v Christianity: The
King of ^ariisv^accompalped by a
«reat multitude of princes and no
bles, actually set ouXon his .jhulpjpy
to Avignon, to recsivo haptysiii from
Tope*Clement "VI But bearing on
bis si^ky that thtf Chrisu^ns tqo had
hbcpinc victims to the lost roye.K lie
returned home..nilb the loss of ahoSt
two thousand men. lihomtho Chris
tians most iingonermHly attacked and
cut off in the rear of tvia army.
From Greece the plague passed
nilo Italy', The Venetians', haying
! osi 100,000 souls, fled from their
ily. and le.it it almost uninhabited
At Florence, 60 000 persons died in
no year. Among these was, the his-
oriBii Giovanni VillSm,' whose' Writ*.
-yarda^being-insufficient ^for the pur- clans, nor aiy other who sought thus
pose. No attempt vyss made to per- to escape, did find their caution of
foiui this lagt- offire Willi the usual tiny gd vantage; fordeoth notp. If -e*
care-aud decency, deep and broad gaidflri.hout doors as well as in a i.am-
ulitehes* svei r e spade, in which the j bers, but, as if it took indignation
duaubodies were laid in rows, and ! that any mortal should think to fly
covered with earth, and surmounted from it, these kind of, people dicA
with another layer of bodies-, uhiclW both ifiore" speedily niid propoifio.na-
elfo wgs cpvere^ 1 ; ,Sir Walfer Man- ! ‘ l " ! 1 ‘
11awhose iiamh is* so well kno^n'
from Iris connexion with (he affect in-
iflcident o.C the surrender of Calais
to^Edward III.) benevolently psu-
chased and appropriated a burial-
ground, near Smithfield, in which
single place "more (ban fifty thousand
peopH* were buried. Stori says that
be-l'ftd scon, on a stoub ev«»e «« (hot
1*
bly in greater nunibcrs. Then was
lliere death without sorrow, affinity
without friendship, willul penance
nnd dearth without scarcity; and fly
ing without refuge or succor.' For
many fled from place to place be
cause of the pestilence; some i, to
desert9 and places not inhibited, cr-
tber in liuj.e or despair. Birt^gph It-
siglili'H rliBlroc'iinn found them out, aiifl
burml-grqund, the following quaint in- j nimble-looted miseryiva» cve^n nfiy-
script ion: “Artho .Domini MCCf'LlX j to attend them. Others, travPng |,ir*
iption
regnat'e magna pcsUlenlia consecra-
tuni.j^uit hoc cmniit^iiuin; in tjuo, cl
infidf septa priesentis moifastcwi: ^ep-
tilofa fijwunr moitudiunt corpora
piusquaiR LM. praesens. Quorum
aniinabus propitietur Detts.. Amen.”
'I'iii- pestilence gave occasion to
sonie dipfdinatie intercourse Ibclwecn
England and France, tvhjch is stri
kingly characteristic of the nvanners
of-the age. While .the mortality
igs we have already referred to.—-. was raging in those countries. Pope
le was pop of the most distinguished 1 Dlen»*nt VI. nevei^ceaSed impoi lu
men of his agi; *wnd his historical ning the monarchs^of- bolh to put an
• riirngs are lofrkttid upon as eorVist^.end to fheis mutual hostility,-and, by
and valuable. H.<j wtss the aimaliit ( doing-so, to avoid the continuance cl
aftbrS'pestilence Blrnos} .<lo,^o to the ; a' calamity sept by {leaven to punish
lav of bis falli>'g a victim tp> it At mankind Edward and Philip were
Avffhpn the morality was-horriltle. 1 indocnul by these .pipus exhortations
In thp strong language of Stow,' peo- appoint commissioners ■“**“ *
•Oftgji
lo died li1#Hrug at the nose, mouth,
•ftd fundament; ‘ so that, rivers ran
with blood, and streams with putrid
gore issued from flip graves and sep
ulchres of the dead. When it first
broke out those, no fqVver than sixty
who met
at Calais and St. (fusers to iiegoliate
a treaty. The French insisted, on
the restoration of Calais, or the rais
ing of its fortifications; a proposition
which the 'English would not listen to.
At last. However, a triice wtts ns reel
six of the Carmelite friftes died be- i upon for six mouths,. till September
fore any body kuew how, so that it ! following, in cider fo allow time to
was imagmVsA.they had murdered one tiegotiate for a peace; aiui it Avas a-
onother ,Ol the members of the En-> ! Rt‘*ed, that if, at the end of the truce,
glish coljege at' Avignon; no ope was Ifcjiltfli treaty was not concluded, the
left alive; and of,the- wliolo inhabit- j crctw'n of France was to be brought
ants of the city, not one in five. Ac-M° a convenient place, within that
cording to a statetpent. or .bill; of. f®a!in, dnd the right to decided-by
mortality laid before*^He (lope, there
died in ouo;«d«y 18.12,jtmd, in,annther
400 persons; ? ThA nralawjr proeeed-
« pitched baffle, vvithout fuitlieC-np-
pcal. r 'Th« death of the ;FH*T»ch
kiitg, however, which; Happened-..in
August, J3.50, before the expiration
2RLTS v° w.f''W it 7!’ j 1 7V. ,v '"I"
r# -I /tfc™ 2*^ zrZJZzzs
[ifover the world in all diiecliqot
Aing esery all4waq.ee l®r tne igno-
m and cyedsili’yvof lt* »g«<; ,l »lr
sr< evident that aonie natural cause
ccnlributed to corrupt the air
H load it Witlvpestifcrous vapors
load , . ,
^ islctharkable, that before .he
»'dijiv In Eiuop'er»’n?uh'r melet oio
twentieth perttoo alive*
tjyes partly>,y.th6 plague^jpnd park
ly eorth^iakes, went* Ip ft qilitd'
des.ilofe. Giovanni Viilani shyrs that
iq a patfrof Mesopotamia,'only .some
vyornen survived, who w«r«f driven
by extremity tfnd deS^aiflfilo devour
on/^another.
ed-^oryhwm|d'tHi*ongh'France,.tillJt August, 13.50, before the expiration
rea^hcfl P.qris, where# cut off 50 - | of the triitfC, put an end to this smooth
000. AboaCMbwar5»;,ti,me it spread . ond amicable plan s# ac.comoda-
ioto Germniw. wherH.,|{s ravages are ! lion..- . v :§■ ■. : " *
estimajjyl flt the criorinoqs^mqurif ofj The morality fell chiefly ,un the
12,406.(500 sonU. At LuHpck alone, j lower glasses qf society, and among
Recording to the eoncuning*00.000^8 j <h^m, pri|idipaH> pn old mpm wommi,
of sovl'ial writers, pOOOO persons ’ and children. It was reintirked that
.. v «.rr4 dkxvftW In AtlA v l'Ptt IV rtf ! not one line or nriuce of any nalion
wwre-v «tvnptMw«y > 0«e .'year; Of ,not>ie "king or prince 01 any
' ‘ died with (lie plague; ano ot tlie En
glish nobility and people of distinction,
whom>4|B0 were reported .t<w {tawe
di'din^bdsps^.nf.fviiihourg.TBg;,; , .
. At a lixftt t h /‘flfArful scourge very fesy were cutoff by yt. ;Auiong
tirbl r3f in; :JHr" v '-- •
kI4iu|. * ■AtaiitRtlie'^bcf ^he h^heV-Oiders oY ibo church the
ginning of it pfipeared deaths \y«fro rare; but siich havoc
inAbe lira-port.tswnr.nn the colst was made amoufc* the inferior clergy,
ijprset/DdyoO hucl suwinci set shir®, that i-fiomher qf; churches were le/t
wHBfl^-i| : ; prodCqJed to Bristol, jr t#ftfy void, and wlrhoiife^iv one to
Theb&onira&f Gleucestershue' imine- mgfform i)ivine scrviee,+'or any oqi-
■ • i . • .A iy. w |S • . Jl * ‘^4* A* ilin a o mix tirrtxx *
-of •. .-L
t . yin.... w (Minfi into-mv
iiiok pface.^ ^l'hos it came into
!!*fidititth«>Wi«l ofithe yw4348;
l^liarf nflumMronHtlse Chrwtmos
I'Mfdsrfnmer^liuoit without. ee»«-
tfikl^H #>• svh«l?»” lt» use
wards ®f untold s*riter, u it Jwrd-
afd’Sin * much M for,, op# jfatf
im iPfi^her-”
<» fallowed; and sccuoguWbn.ns
I^Amt'W«ter',ihy wbirlUl'e.
i was poisoned JaFrancp.vey-
iteAiflpmele^prfO ^pppsrfinces
*>» W?#t«
e or six months in one pkice, anil
then to hare.foite in* search^ro^fresh
vidims. Its symptoms ore trimutely
desrxibed bv many \\rit®rs v aqd ap-
pcstr to have been the same ift cvarjK
coOntry it visiteiT' lt‘ ^ner»!ljr ap
peared *iq the groin, tfr unpftr the
Rimpits. wllere f»weMings were
duert), which’ HroliW mlo* 4 soreBi
tended with fexer, j|Hltiog aBd voAq
Rhig^Tblood. rriS*|sntieht,frequent-
.JR"
ly JieS.m halfh dny-^eusHral^ qwtllT i olt * fP 0 ?^ 1
Tie day or two at iwS; Mf be <ur-jf^qt Uicr.
IY n - tfM » rr /ifkdk in tbw mor- though even then many fell into, a
Decemhv, V 5 ^^* par 3| l j d ^.!eep from wbiqh the, ^ver a-
itf Derma
tflitr sunrise,
snlatd, k]
tnara nn
ivllti'i ; V'i . W -tcK
.Wl It# partflen^e/ *W»d«e
• \ '
%
of icClisipu.' - At the same time."
itS^Wnd proceedings ^jn the
courts of justices ceased; a(lci,,thd
sittiog qj^pari'iament was mlei milted
for more than two years- ■
ThU terrible visitation .wtsg^Vor^
where attended by a total dHyohiOfin
djately tnt'fcidi<iMied m *ll» inltfrcmrso*
jv'iltd1?hut in vaio.' The ttis-
es«‘ 1-ajiw or. fa t Ire r,' He w ov#r GI mi*
cestarMirie: Tiionce ilfc-spresd to
Oxford^ aad about tlH»*1*t of Nov.
refihhetttymdon. Fift rliy, it jprvnd
itself by.hPfenglandy. %cxweri«g eveiV
iviiere sudh dysIrutlHioDi ^wet of the
(lie whole popftla'ic jo.jK.Wly one per
son out Hf’too ViisSSlI't'.alive. * .
* Incredilfle^r this stateUsent may
attiBsqr, iFShetnfyb'Jjne out hj tjie
details of* erifit^njioraiv • annalists.
'In the -qjiurfltysflr. .or YacwOuth
1054 persons?sxhfi died of the pl«&u«r
hettsrtMlii'Ut Of Jan*
and flie 1st of Jiily. In Aecsty
ork tbe mortality \vm equal.
Rc Viod ho general statement of'l , . , T - , , . . ^
f ^ of the nmrtslily iifLon^ ds good to otliers, and they *ery r|
ro sbe det 0 ds* suftcient. ‘most cgrlaiu lhei«by,WHlc»Uw thn<ff-
e«, It^rriswlelves.—Even the p*i«»t# also, for
^thftsome.Jiorrid c^usidorstioo, Aw*®-
bu?e either (madminisfier thf^Mra-
nttend them.
cd boats or other'vessels, into wlilVli
they Ibid provision, thought, cr at
least hoped, 60 to elude the'power ofl
the infej6noo, but fbe destroying an
gel, like that in the Revelation, bad
one foot upon the tyat.eis h^.weii «s
on fbp land; for alas! the Very air
they breathed being tainted, they
drew iiedeath together with lil<T it
self. Thp;- hor ror of'these tuhtgs>
mmde others to lock tbcmselrcs up in
theTf houses, gardens, and sweet r*r-
lired places; but the evil they intend*
cdto exclude pursued them through
all their defences";' and they had (big
only difference, to die wit (mat ;h»
company of any that might sene or
pity them. K physician could tell
the cause, or 411 escribe a cure: and
even what'ivns saving loo:® was .no
less than fatal to anpllier. No osti 61-
oger .could divine l»ow oj wiiua it
would cea6c; the only way (efi was
to prepare to receive it, and the n^osf
comfo^ahte rcsoluliou to aocept ji
without Aar.” * *'
The pestilence extended im®
Wales, Where it raged vi I. nt ly; and
soon afterwards, passing into Ireland,
it made great liavoc among the En-
glisj^settled in that isiand. But it
was remarked that the native lei*
were little affected,* particularly
those that dwell in the hilly djs*
itwets.’ . ' ....
As (0 the S cots they*.arc said to
have*brouebt the malnrly upon tluui-
elvcs.^ Taking, advantage of ibe
defenceless stale of England, they
rnadc A hostile irruption, with a larg®
force, into 'he country. But they '
had not procetylcd far, wfien tfic ca
lamity which ihVy courted, auil so
wefl.ajbsei ved /roui tlieic tingenerous
i*tmilH(M,*'overtook thcln. They p» r-
islicd in lliousnuds; and, in attempting
lojreiurn home, they were ovr rUiltcn,
bcitbits-tliey coujd reach.{lie border,
by a strong body of English, who
routed thorn with great slaughter.
The reltinort carried the disease ini®
Scotland,' when? its ravages typro
soon as destructive as in the south-'
cm paidf cflhc island. ”S*. otlBr-d t ”
ssys the the writer whom w e Ijnye
already qiiqtwd, “partook- of tl-,c uni
versal contagion in as IrigJj a degree
aiuT iu the same manner, as other
coufilfie^ done before; only in*
this .there was a difference, ( ia f*
ivhcrdfis oilier nations sal 'still and*
wnit®d for the Scots did seem*'
oC the bonds of society. ’ Ay& exVeji- I mubstious to. fetch it sitong them#
lent fiftl writer gives Uitj-folioWiog'el- However n ucli Scotland
oquent descriptiontfRp stal^-qf-Ei#- may bard had Jo complain or the up. 1
gland: *‘W® a*r told the inflpeip:® ofi ipressisb rrtid- tyranny of England un-
this disease was so-centagiousi, that B fi* T lhe it- was-engeijcr^
ndt oily inActed by a iouch orApfath- ous nnd unworthy of a brave people
this
ijdtoify H .. H X.
iug, bjjt tiatts !used its malignity into
the ,vely beams o(^light, and • darted
death from Urn eyes; and the^very
sc&ts and gawneius ftf^ucb proved fa
tal.- vVhesefosp plMjrtsforsook their
chiMepm *«d wivkti tUeir husbands,
nor yvooDl pliysiciqp* hei^mak«‘tb«ir^
oral statement ‘of ihq visitir, fo^neiiheMAere lbey
lo slbsw. that it must ht»e be«tWrrii
hie beyond ihtagittation. 1 be .dead
were tflltiwnJjitf^bits, foHy. Bfly, or
sixty, ioftf oX 4*4 ' vter J .
ouiployed V burikk-plsesSj th« «burcb I
to nttrnipt to retaliate on i ualioe' 1
laid prpslijate..by the handofHt av*
en. At the samo time, there is so
reason |«v dedfllt first tbe ’general
eSuap, wbotc^r it was, of thi pcs-'
til fence, would at any rate have sooe
IOhA Scotland, as well a®
Iretaqd; * ’ '* ■ *.
1849 tbb plagpfl^
Enaflaml; and by
tldr’moettt Of]* Ktfgusl it had entire!*
disXpiv^ar^d- ltVto0e*O«tiicea. how-*
i* 1 ivo*wLa rsefisk la?
(rib absolve the styiiig
fiutfei neither pridits, tu
>1 o* » f !»*
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