Original Correspondence.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 52, 1 August 1844, Page 2

Original Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Auckland CJironicte. Sir, < By yoar allusions to the Tribunal of the Holy Inquisition, you seem to impress on the minds of your readers that it was a 'I ribunal of Blood. On that point many persons are apt to mistake and circulate misrepresentaiions, thro* ignorance or d<sign. Xet us give an instance of iis working dunng a hundred years ; not gone case of death brought by the Inquisition was found even in Rome, the centre of that work! Mark, not one case during a huudred years. But under the reign of a certain Arch-Reformer, and head of the Church King, Seventy thousand were -huna- and put to death!! v It is|far from my mind to provoke religious discussions, farther from being the advocate, or apolo* yist of the said Tribunal, but I feel it a duty to refute calumny, and rec.ify by Historical reference tfce erroneous ideas that have been mooted on that important subject. A READER OF HISTORY. Auckland, 30th July, 1844, In our allusion last week to the Holy Inquisition, we merely stated that M cruel tortures" were perpetrated under its sanction,; our correspondent immediately comes forward professedly to "refute calumny," but does not attempt to prove that abominable cruelties were not practised upon the unfortunate victims of that Infernal Tribunal. We do not choose to enter into a discussion on a subject so ill-suited for the columns of a small newspaper; we would however just observe that we are fully aware of the ingenious mode of argument resorted to by the apologists of that monster of abominations the Inquisition, whereby t.h.-y attempt to throw all the odium of their inhuman, diabolical, and bloody deeds upon the despotic and tyranical Governments whose machines only they were. 1 — ■ •