PRESENT STATE OF EUROPE. 415 exemplary long suffering, as exhibited during the last four years it is from the strength of their self-esteem and their hope that they do not even complain; uncovering with pride their scars, they scorn to hold up to compassion their wounds. Sooner perhaps than it is imagined may Hungary again become free, and enabled to accomplish what appears to be her destiny,-To carry Civilization into the East. APPENDIX. NOTE TO P. 126. LAMPE (see Hist. Eccles. Hung. lib. ii. p. 446-488) gives a ful description of these persecutions, including the different appeals which were made in the various parts of Europe in behalf of the unfortunate ministers. As it appears, Nicholas Zaffius, Doctor of Medicine of Geneva, who then lived in Italy, had the greatest merit in awakening the sympathy of Europe for these galley-slaves; and judging from his appeals as furnished by this historian, Zaffius was a most earnest and most eloquent man. In shortly adverting to the cruelties practised upon the Hungarian Protestants, the doctor exclaims, "Quid? istane mortales ad coeli adyta deducendi methodus est a Christo Sanctissimo jussa, ab ejusdem Apostolis ad praxin deducta? Vera Dei Ecclesia, Columba est, non Tygris immanis humano sanguine gaudens.” Among the chief questions put to these captives by the Dutch vice-admiral, were, first, “Cujus criminis vos accusati, sive qua de re in carcerem ducti estis ?" Second, "Quamodo ex prima captivitate venitis in hanc calamitatem, in Galerias ?" Third, "An ad hanc poenam condemnati estis a Caesare. Fourth, “An venditi estis pretio ad hanc servitutem? et si ita, quando pretio quisque venditus est?" To the first question they answered that having been accused of having preached against the papists, and of having called them idolaters, and mixed besides in rebellious schemes, though none of these charges were substantiated, they were ordered either to subscribe never to teach or preach Protestant doctrines, or to go into exile, or to embrace Catholicism. To the second question they answered 2 D "Propter non datas reversionales ad tria specificata puncta nos venisse in has miseras." Here they relate how once in the . night they were carried away from the fortress of Leopoldstadt, and carried by the Austrian soldiery into Moravia and Austria ; how, bereft of their clothes and shaved, some of them died on the way, of hunger, cold, and the blows of their drivers, till twentynine of them, who remained alive, were delivered to the galleys between Ethiopian, Moorish, and Turkish malefactors. To the third question they answered "Quantum ad condemnationem, nos nemo ad hanc poenam condemnavit, sed per gradus eo devenimus adversariarum insaturabili odio; an scitu et consensu Cæsaris, nos latet; hoc tamen ex fide dignis hominibus audivimus, quod mandato Præsidis Cameræ Hungaricæ Leopoldi a Kollonits, juridice tamen nunquam hanc poenam contra nos quisquam decrevit." This is the answer to the fourth question:— "De venditione vero audita, non incertum hominum sermonem referimus, quod in singula capita 38 personarum exceptis solum iis qui fuga sese eripuerunt quinquagenis seu quinquaginta ducatis venditi essemus." Even Charles II. of England directed an epistle to the English clergy in behalf of the unfortunate ministers, which, however, as may be imagined, had not the effect that a frown of Cromwell's would have produced. THE END. MURRAY AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH. |