They deliberated upon the means of putting her to death in torment.

But in the end one of them reserved her for his mistress; and they killed her infant with an axe before her face.

"Now," says Mr.Edwards, (addressing himself to his audience,) "you will think that no torments were too great for such horrible excesses.

Nevertheless I am of a different opinion.

I think that death, unaccompanied with cruelty, should be the utmost exertion of human authority over our unhappy fellow-creatures." Torments, however, were always inflicted in these cases.