The sound of hungry pots set boiling, on judicious principles; the hum of those old women's spindles in the warm rooms: gods and men are well pleased to hear such sounds; and accept the same as part, real though infinitesimally small, of the sphere-harmonies of this Universe! ABOLITION OF LEGAL TORTURE.
Friedrich makes haste, next, to strike into Law-improvements.

It is but the morrow after this of the Corn-magazines, by KABINETS-ORDRE (Act of Parliament such as they can have in that Country, where the Three Estates sit all under one Three-cornered Hat, and the debates are kept silent, and only the upshot of them, more or less faithfully, is made public),--by Cabinet Order, 3d June, 1740, he abolishes the use of Torture in Criminal Trials.

[Preuss, _Friedrichs Jugend und Thronbesteigung_ (Berlin, 1840,--a minor Book of Preuss's), p.

340.
Rodenbeck, i.

14 ("3d June").] Legal Torture, "Question" as they mildly call it, is at an end from this date.