the tender children were in sight of their wretched
parents torn to pieces by beasts, others dragged at horses' heels, some
famished with hunger, and others buried up to their necks in earth, and
in that manner left to perish. In short, were we to relate the
innumerable massacres and deplorable tragedies acted by the infidels,
the particulars would at least make a volume of themselves, and from
their horrid similarity be not only shocking, but disgusting to the
reader.

_Persecutions and Oppressions in Georgia and Mingrelia._

The Georgians, are christians, and being very handsome people, the Turks
and Persians persecute them by the most cruel mode of taxation ever
invented, namely, in lieu of money, they compel them to deliver up their
children for the following purposes.

The females to increase the number of concubines in their seraglios, to
serve as maids of honour to sultanas, the ladies of bashaws, &c., and to
be sold to merchants of different nations, by whom the price is
proportioned to the beauty of the purchased fair one.

The males are used as mutes and eunuchs in the seraglio, as clerks in
the offices of state, and as soldiers in the army.

To the west of Georgia is Mingrelia, a country likewise inhabited by
christians, who are persecuted and oppressed in the same manner as the
Georgians by the Turks and Persians, their children being extorted from
them, or they murdered for refusing to consent to the sale.

_An Account of the Persecutions in the States of Barbary._

In Algiers the christians are treated with particular severity; as the
Algerines are some of the most perfidious, as well as the most cruel of
all the inhabitants of Barbary. By paying a most exorbitant fine, some
christians are allowed the title of Free christians, and these are
permitted to dress in the fashion of their respective countries, but the
christian slaves are obliged to wear a coarse gray suit and a seaman's
cap.

The punishments among the Algerines are various, viz.

1. If they join any of the natives in open rebellion, they are strangled
with a bowstring, or hanged on an iron hook.

2. If they speak against Mahomet, they must either turn Mahometan, or be
impaled alive.

3. If they turn christians again, after having changed to the Mahometan
persuasion, they are roasted alive, or thrown from the city walls, and
caught upon large sharp hooks, where they hang in a miserable manner
several days, and expire in the mos