A Narrative of the Extraordinary Adventures and Sufferings by Shipwreck & Imprisonment, of Donald Campbell

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Ridiculous Effects of Ignorance, exemplified in a whim-

Author's Motives for going to India. Melancholy pre-
sentiments. Caution against Superstition. Journey.
to Margate. Packet. Consoled by meeting General
Lockhart on board. Lands at Ostend.

LETTER IV. Page 22.

Short account of the Netherlands.

Conduct of the Bel-

gians. Ostend described. Wonderful Effects of Li-

berty on the human mind, exemplified in the Defence

of Óstend against the Spaniards..

LETTER V. Page 26,

Caution against using Houses of Entertainment on the

Continent kept by Englishmen. Description of the

Barques. Arrives at Bruges. Gross Act of despotism

in the Emperor. Imprisonment of La Fayette.

LETTER VI. Page 30.

Description of Bruges. Reflections on the Rise and De-

cay of Empires. Chief Grandeur of the cities of

Christendom, consisted in Buildings, the works of

Monkish Imposture and Sensuality. Superstition a

powerful Engine.

LETTER VII. Page 34.

Opulence of the Bishop of Bruges. Cathedral. Church
of Notre Dame. Vestments of Thomas A. Becket.

Extraordinary Picture. Monastery of the Dunes.
The Mortification of that Order. A curious Relic.

LETTER VIII. Page 39.

Passage to Ghent. Cheapness of Travelling. Descrip-

tion of Ghent. Cathedral. Monastery of St. Pierre.

Charity of the Clergy.

LETTER IX. Page 44.

Description of two brazen Images, erected in Comme-

moration of an extraordinary Act of Filial Virtue.

Journey from Ghent through Alost to Brussels.

LETTER X. Page 48.

nal.

General Review of Austrian Flanders.

LETTER XI. Page 51.

Short Description of Brussels. Royal Library. Arse-

Armour of Montezuma. The Enormities com-

mitted under the Pretext of Christianity, by far great-

er than those committed by the French in the Frenzy

of emancipation.

LETTER XII. Page 56.

Brussels continued. Churches, Chapels, Toys, Images

and Pictures. A Host, or Wafer, which was stabbed

by a Jew, and bled profusely. Inns excellent and

cheap.

LETTER XIII. Page 61.

General Remarks on the people of the Netherlands.

Account of the Emperor Joseph the Second. Anec-

dote of that Monarch. His Inauguration at Brussels.

Burning of the Town-house. Contrasted conduct of

the Belgians to Joseph on his Arrival, and after his

Departure. The detestable Effects of Aristocracy.

LETTER XIV. Page 63.

Liege. Constitution of the German Empire. Tolerant

Disposition of Joseph the Second, occasions a Visit

from His Holiness the Pope, who returns to Rome in

disappointment. Situation of the present Emperor.

Reflections on the conduct of Russia and Prussia to

Poland.

LETTER XV. Page 74.

Luxury of the Bishop of Liege.

Reflections on the In-

consistency of the Professions and Practice of Church-

men, particularly the Nolo Episcopari, which Bishops

swear at their Installment. Advantages of the study

of the Law in all Countries. Liege, the Paradise of

Priests. Sir John Mandevill's Tomb.

LETTER XVI. Page 78.

Aix-la-Chapelle. A bit of Earth in a Golden Casket.
Consecration of the Cathedral, by an Emperor, a Pope,
and three hundred and sixty-five Bishops.

luable Presents to that Church.

LETTER XVII. Page 82.

Their va-

Juliers. Reflections on Religious Persecution. Cologne.
Church of St. Ursula. Bones of eleven thousand
Virgin Martyrs. Church of St. Gerion. Nine hun-
dred Heads of Moorish Cavaliers. Reflections on
the Establishment of Clergy, and the Superiority of
that of Scotland.

LETTER XVIII. Page 86.

Cologne continued.

Strange Ambition of Families to
be thought Descendants of the Romans. Story of
Lord Anson and a Greek Pilot. Bonne. Bridge of
Cæsar. Coblentz. Mentz. Frankfort.

LETTER XIX. Page 90.

Frankfort described. Golden Bull. Augsburgh. Manu-

factory of Watch-Chains, &c. Happy State of Society

arising from the tolerant Disposition of the Inhabitants.

LETTER XX. Page 95.

Augsburgh continued. Adventure in the Convent of

Carmelites. A good Friar.

LETTER XXI. Page 99.

Tyrol Country. Story of Genii leading the Emperor

Maximilian astray. Innspruck.

LETTER XXII.

Page 103.

Tyrolese. Innspruck. Riches of the Franciscan Church
there. One Mass in it sufficient to deliver a Soul from
Purgatory. Hall. Curiosities at the Royal Palace
of Ombras. Brisen. Valley of Bolsano. Trent.

LETTER XXIII. Page 108.

Description of the Bishopric of Trent. Obvious Difference

between Germany and Italy. Contrast between the

Characters of the Germans and Italians.

Trent. Tower for drowning adulterers.

Venice.

LETTER XXIV. Page 112.

Council of

Bassano.

General Description of Venice, and Reflections on the

Venetians.

LETTER XXV. Page 118.