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of majesty, and, perhaps, according to the present Oriental cus-
toms, praying aloud lor his long lite and prosperity. Iirthe rear
is one sounding a truijipct; others are conducting behind them
fresh subjects lor his cruelty. A singular ingenuity seems to
have been employed in inventing modes of torturing these un-
fortunate persons :—some have their hands locked within iron ma-
nacles ; others have their elbows turned upwards, and tied to-
gether in front; others have their elbows tied immediately over
their head : of two others, one has his elbows tied behind, and
the other his wrists ; they are then placed back to back, and the
arm of this last is lashed to the shoulder of the other; another
has his hands tied to his own shoulders, and at the same time to
the elbows of the one next to him.

Quitting one scene of horror for another, wc see the same mo-
narch, not yet satiated with cruelty and blood, driving his car,
(not at full speed,) to which are lashed about twenty of his cap-
tives, whose hands and arms are distorted as already described :
those who are unable; to move by their own exertions are drag-
ged along the ground, and three arc tied to the axle-tree. The
agonies and torments of these wretches are admirably well de-
scribed ; and if the artist has given us a too accurate picture of
the cruel treatment of the captives by the princes of his country,
(for we cannot suspect that in the temples of the Gods and
within the walls of the metropolis such pictures would be exagge-
rated,) we must at least admire the execution, though wc shud-
der at the fact which such indelible monuments have recorded.

Underneath this picture a column of infantry, armed with
long spears and daggers, are moving forward in a slow march ;
and such is the precision and regularity with which they move,
that we cannot but suppose that in those times the sovereigns of

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