... lodged in prison, and the cruel and malignant, who ought themselves to be incarcerated as a measure of public safety, keep the dungeon keys. Madiai had been a travelling courier; his wife a lady's maid many years in the service of English families. In the summer ...

... up. The Bab-el-Bale, or wise beauty 'of Kazoeen, is a close prisoner at Teheran, where ' rumour says, she has all but converted some of the influential officers of state, who have been allowed to visit her dungeon. We have a con- i firmation of the execution ...

... gratify a cultivated taste ; but where were those horrid 'Instruments of torture of which, we had been told, and where those dungeons in which human beings were said to be buried alive? We searched in vain. The holy father assured us that they had been belied ...