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The Pearl/Volume 5/Miss Coote's Confession, or the Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid.

In a series of Letters to a Lady Friend.

LETTER V

My Dear Nellie,

I was nearly four years with Miss Flaybum before my education was considered to be complete. The last half-year had arrived, and you may be sure how I looked forward to my emancipation from the thralldom of Miss Herbert and her mistress; Lady Clara, Laura, and the Van Tromp had all left. Cecile now was my bosom friend, we had both grown our feathers as they were called, and I loved Mademoiselle Fosse so dearly that my guardians had arranged with her to live with me as a companion in future, as they intended making me a sufficient allowance to set up a genteel household of my own. Besides myself and Cecile there were at school no less than nine or ten big young ladies, who as well as Mademoiselle would leave for good when we broke up for the approaching Christmas holidays. Miss Flaybum seemed to be much annoyed at the prospect of losing quite a third of her pupils all at once; she became decidedly spiteful in her little tyranny, and in the punishments inflicted, seeming to take an especial delight in horsing the biggest girls; we were birched for the most trifling offences, often in threes and fours at a time; such doings could not fail to breed resentment in our breasts, and we all longed for some chance of revenge. I had become quite a leader in the school, and with the other girls often made what we called sacrifices to the rod, especially of the younger pupils, in our respective bedrooms, who dared not complain to Miss Flaybum for fear of worse happening to them.

The last few days were approaching, and in less than a week I hoped to take leave of old Edmonton for good, and not wishing to abandon the field without paying off old scores I had a consultation with Mdlle. and Cecile, as to the practicality of wreaking our revenge. The result was we engaged all the big girls who were leaving to help us, besides taking about a dozen more of the others into our confidence, who promised at least to remain neutral frightened spectators. Miss Flaybum in her careful wisdom had all the servants, except Maria, sleep in a distant part of the house, and a heavily barred door prevented all access for them to us at night.

Miss Flaybum also invariably gave the young ladies a breaking-up party the evening before they were to go home, so we determined to bribe Maria to forfeit her allegiance and aid in our treason; the plan being at the end of the evening's entertainment to seize upon Miss Flaybum, Miss Herbert, and Frau Bildaur, and well birch them all, especially the two former tyrants. We had no difficulty with Maria, who had recently drawn most of her wages. I promised her a handsome douceur and a place in my own establishment, which she gladly accepted, being as she said quite tired out with the Misses' tantrums.

She also agreed to provide everything necessary for our purpose, cords, and especially three of the penitential dresses to put on our victims.

The eventful evening arrived, the conspirators had agreed between themselves to irritate Miss Flaybum by making very free with her champagne, which upon such occasions was made a great display of, but very sparingly served out to the company. Maria, assisted by two other servants, was principal waitress, and at supper, by her connivance, nearly all of us took about three glasses of the sparkling gooseberry, instead of one, as usual on such occasions. Miss Flaybum opened her eyes in astonishment as she saw us indulging in a second glass, but when she saw us still further encroaching on her profuse hospitality she fairly exploded, "Miss Coote, Miss Deben, I'm astonished at you; how dare you, Mademoiselle, to encourage those young ladies in such intemperance," rising from her seat in rage, "why half of my pupils will get intoxicated; Maria, remove those bottles this instant, you must have lost your head."

Maria, who had watched the storm brewing, had, just the previous instant, succeeded in dismissing the other two servants and well bolting the door leading to the domestics' quarters, having, with good tact, provided them with a considerable amount of refreshment, to regale themselves withal.

Perceiving the field was all clear, I rose up, glass in hand, saying, with a bow of mock deference, "Wait a moment, Maria, we are not quite ready to dispense with the champagne. Miss Flaybum, Miss Herbert, and you young ladies (looking round the table), we shall, many of us, part to-morrow morning, never to return to this happy establishment, and I, for one, feel sure you will all join with me in drinking a real bumper to the health of our much respected and beloved schoolmistress."

Miss Flaybum gasped with agitation, but subsided into her chair, as if resigned to her fate, and apparently unable to help herself.

The young ladies all received the proposal with rapturous applause; glasses were filled without stint.

"Now, then," I exclaimed, stepping on to my chair and placing one foot on the table, "we must drink to the health of such an illustrious and amiable lady, with all honours, in the Scotch fashion, one foot on the table, and throw your glasses over your shoulders as you drain them to the bottom, in her honour. To the health of Miss Audrey Clementine Flaybum,-

For she's a jolly good fellow, For she's a jolly good fellow. For she's a jolly good fellow.

And so say all of us, And so say all of us. And so say all of us,

With a hip, hip, hurrah, With a hip, hip, hurrah, Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah."

(Crash of glasses)

My confederates joined and gave the health in regular chorus and, I must say, in rather a masculine manner.

"My God! my God!" screamed Miss Flaybum, as the glasses crashed on the floor, or wherever they fell, "the young ladies are all drunk; what shall I do, Miss Herbert, how awful, where did they learn all this pot-house slang?"

"What an insult!" I exclaimed. "Are we drunk, young ladies? Cecile, Mdlle. Fosse, will you stand still to be stigmatized as drunkards?" We all crowded round Miss Flaybum and the English and German governesses, the two former red with passion, whilst Frau Bildaur was trembling with fear.

"This is no laughing matter," I continued, "we have all been insulted. Miss Audrey Clementine Flaybum, our turn is come now, you shall be made to smart for this, and make a most abject apology for insulting a number of young ladies of the highest aristocracy, and you Miss Dido Herbert, shall be punished too because you evidently approved it all. I think we will begin upon Frau Bildaur, but I won't be hard upon her, as she is rather tenderhearted. Maria, do your duty, no retiring, strip them, and put the penitential garments on before us all here."

Miss Flaybum, now pale and trembling with rage and fear. - "How dare you address me so; Maria, clear the room of these impudent young ladies, they are all flushed with wine."

Her appeals to Maria are all in vain; she first strips and robes Frau Bildaur; the poor creature, ready to faint with fear and shame, offers no resistance, but Miss Herbert is indignant, and resists strenuously, whilst Miss Flaybum is held down in her chair by half-a-dozen strong young ladies.

"Never mind about dressing that old frump," I exclaimed; "stretch her on the table, and turn up her clothes."

Almost by magic the supper table is half cleared, all the debris of the entertainment being swept to the other end of the table. The struggling victim is powerless as soon as Maria with the assistance of Cecile and Mdlle. Fosse resolutely drag her to the table; she is stretched over the mahogany, and Mdlle., having turned up her clothes and pinned them well up, sits on her shoulders, to keep her down, whilst one or two others hold her arms. Cecile opens her drawers and exposes a rather thin bottom, saying, "She's not very plump, dear Rosa, but no doubt you can make her squeak."

Rosa. - "Tear off her drawers and fully expose her, I must pay off all scores at once."

This is speedily done, the victim appeals for mercy and exclaims against such indecency, but in vain; whilst Miss Flaybum looks on in speechless horror, gasping and sighing with indignation and the thoughts of what shameful indignities may be in store for herself.

Rosa, giving a light swish on the exposed rump. - "Have you got any feeling, Miss Dido Herbert? I hope this won't hurt you much, but you've been a spiteful old thing to us for a long time." Swish, swish, swish, harder and harder, till the devoted bum begins to get quite rosy. "Will you beg our pardon, and promise to be kinder to your pupils in future?" giving a whack with all her force, which weals and almost draws the blood.

Miss Herbert. - "Oh! Oh! we never punished like that! Oh! shameful, Miss Coote!"

Rosa. - "How dare you, Miss Dido, tell me it's shameful, do you really mean what you say?" slashing away in earnest, and soon making little drops of blood begin to ooze from the bruised weals.

Miss Herbert, sobbing hysterically. - "Oh! Oh! I didn't mean to say that. Oh! Oh! Ah-r-r-re! Have mercy! My God! how cruelly you cut!"

Rosa. - "I thought you would come round, Miss Dido; pray, don't you admire my style of birching, don't you wish me to do it a little harder," keeping up a vigorous stroke all the time, and beginning to make quite a beautiful display of raw buttocks.

The victim shrieks with agony and cries for help.

Rosa. - "You may scream, it's delightful to hear it, and know you have some feeling. Will you beg our pardons now?"

Miss Herbert. - "Oh! Yes! Yes! I will, I will. Oh! Oh! pray stop, pray have mercy, I'll never be unkind any more!" sobbing hysterically, "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I shall faint, I know I'm bleeding! Oh! dear Miss Coote, how can you be so cruel?"

Rosa. - "Do you think we're any of us intoxicated? Don't you think it was very improper and unladylike of Miss Flaybum to say what she did, and insult us so, just as we had done her a great honour; what do you think of it, Miss Dido?"

Miss Herbert. - "Oh! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah-r-r-re! Oh! it was so wrong of her! Oh! I do apologize. Oh! let me go. Oh, Mercy!" as she writhes and twists in the most agonizing manner.

Rosa. - "You must thank me, and promise to retire quietly to your room when you are allowed to go, and profit by the lesson you have received; it is not half so bad as it might have been, there, there," giving her a couple of slashing undercuts between her thighs. "Kneel down and kiss the rod, and thank me."

Miss Herbert. - "Ah! Ah! dreadful. Oh! I shall die! Oh! have pity," sobbing and moaning.

She is now released, and has to kneel and kiss the rod, and make most humble thanks, apologies, and promises, to the infinite delight of the audience, who thoroughly enjoy her humiliation as she kneels bathed in tears of pain and shame, and greet her with a storm of hisses as she slinks from the room crestfallen and smarting with her degradation.

Rosa. - "Now, Miss Audrey Clementine Flaybum, it's your turn; resist us, and you shall be punished ten times worse than that woman Herbert."

The schoolmistress is quite cowed by the previous scene. She implores for mercy, and begs them not to degrade her before the whole school, but Rosa and her accomplices are determined and relentless.

Maria gradually strips her mistress, who is a fine looking woman of the fat, fair and forty class, with quite prominent blue eyes and flaxen hair. The disrobing process displays in turn her fine neck and bosom, crimson with shame and heaving with agitation, whilst tears of bitter vexation course down her cheeks. Then she presently stands with only chemise and drawers, the latter so well filled out as to give promise of a splendid bottom within, and the ends beautifully trimmed with expensive lace, below which are seen a fine pair of plump legs, in flesh-coloured silk stockings, and high-heeled shoes, with jewelled buckles, but when the penitential-dress and mobcap are assumed, she looks quite a benevolent Mrs. Fry, grieving over some kind of human depravity.

"There," said Rosa, "she's wise not to resist. Let her stand and see Frau Bildaur receive her punishment, and I will rest too; you dear Cecile, take a new rod and punish her lightly."

It was a beautiful sight to see the chestnut-haired, plump, merry-looking Cecile as she whisked her birch against the trembling Frau, who was presently horsed on Maria's back, and, with drawers let down and skirts up, was soon ready for her punishment, displaying a very fine, full bottom on which to operate.

Cecile. - "Frau Augusta Bildaur, I will only give you a dozen smart cuts, and let you go, when you kiss the rod, and thank me for chastising you."

Thus saying, she slowly counts the number of each blow, as she strikes her well-aimed, deliberate cuts, which quickly raise all the exposed surface to a warm, rosy tint, and leave a lot of very red marks.

The victim receives her punishment very firmly, with closed lips all the while, but when released is very profuse in her thanks, as she kisses the instrument of her flagellation. The timid look is gone, and instead of the tears, her eyes are lighted up with a warm sensual light, and she begs, in a whisper, to be allowed to witness Miss Flaybum's castigation.

Rosa. - "What a pity there is no proper whipping post to tie her up to: we must make shift with the table. Put Miss Flaybum up in the same way as you did Miss Herbert."

The victim does not resist, as she sees it is quite hopeless, and would only entail greater pain on herself. Her drawers are removed altogether, displaying to the curious girls a beautiful plump bottom and white belly, ornamented by a fine Mons Veneris, covered with a profusion of light curly hair, with the tip of a luscious looking clitoris just peeping out between the lips of her pussey. They spread-eagle her on the table, four girls holding her legs wide apart, whilst others secure her arms, and Mademoiselle again sits on the victim's back to make sure of her.

Rosa. - "What a fine sight; how delightful to have to subdue the spirit belonging to such a splendid figure. Miss Audrey Clementine Flaybum, you have been guilty of grossly insulting myself and other young ladies, and you must retract all your accusations of drunkenness, and I trust to thoroughly convince you of our sober earnestness. Do I whip you like a drunkard, or were you not rather intoxicated with passion when you said so?" whipping her slowly at first. "Did we use pot-house slang? I hope I don't hurt your poor delicate bottom, it begins to look rather flushed, but perhaps it's only blushing at our rudeness," warming to her work, and slashing away in good earnest.

Miss Flaybum's face shows the depth of her indignation, whilst her fat, plump bottom writhes at every stroke, so that it is as much as the young ladies can do to hold her legs; she seems determined not to cry out, but Rosa increases her pain with such skillful and maliciously planted strokes, she is compelled at last to sigh for relief.

Rosa, laughing. - "Ha! Ha! Ha! she's obstinate and won't answer; she wishes me to cut harder; Maria, get another good heavy birch ready, this one won't last long. I begin to think Miss Audrey Clementine Flaybum is really drunk herself (roars of laughter), or she would have the sense to apologize, but I'll bring her to her sober senses. How do you like that, and that, and that," cutting each stroke as to go in well between the cheeks of her bottom, and touch the pouting lips of her pussey, which could be quite plainly seen behind; they were indeed painful cuts, and elicited a sudden sharp cry of pain.

Miss Flaybum. - "Ah! Ah! Oh! Oh! How cruel. What fiendish creatures to cut me up so!"

Rosa, laughing again. - "Ha! Ha! she's just beginning to get sober, a little more will thrash all the champagne out of her; drunken people always accuse others of being drunk," cutting up her bottom, and making the blood run in little streams, so that it soon began to run down her thighs, and drip from the hairs of her pussey; the flagellatrix and her friends are getting quite excited at the spectacle, but not the least in sympathy with the victim, whose sufferings seem to afford them exquisite voluptuous sensations, many of the elder girls being stretched on the floor together, or in other positions of sensual enjoyment.

The victim now screams indeed for "Mercy, Mercy! Oh! Oh! Have pity, Miss Coote. Oh! Oh! I shall faint, I shall die."

Rosa, in a state of furious excitement. - "No, no, no fear of your dying, your fat bottom will stand a good deal more yet; you are too obstinate to be let off, the birch will keep you from fainting. Why - why - why - don't you apologize?" giving a terrific undercut between the tender surface of her thighs at every question, making the poor schoolmistress gasp and moan in agony; still her proud spirit refused to do what was required of her.

She is almost fainting, when Rosa, who is getting rather tired with her exertions, calls for a bottle of champagne. "Now, then girls," she exclaims, "she's so plucky we must drink her health again." In response to this call, half-a-dozen young ladies take a bottle each, and at a signal from Rosa, all the corks are fairly discharged at the bleeding bottom, which presents a famous mark, and elicits peals of laughter at the joke, as they drink to "the plucky old girl," who is humiliated more than ever at this unexpected indignity.

Rosa, refreshed, throws away the stump of the birch she has been using, and takes up another heavy swishtail.

"This is something like a rod. Will you, now, Miss Audrey Clementine Flaybum, beg our pardon, and own you were drunk yourself, or must I cut your fat rump in pieces? Aha! That's the vulgar word you would never allow your lips to mention. Perhaps you did not think you had such a thing as a rump yourself, when you used to birch and humiliate us." Whacking away with great earnestness all the while she is lecturing the victim, who screams and shouts in agony as the thundering strokes of the fresh heavy rod crash on her bottom, scratching and tearing the already bruised and bleeding skin in a frightful manner.

Miss Flaybum is almost done for, and really thinks she is going to die, and in an agony of fear and pain forgets the indignity of her position, as well as her firm resolves never to debase herself before her pupils. She screams for mercy.

"Mercy! Oh! Oh! Oh!" she sobs. "Let me go now, dear Miss Coote. Oh! I will beg your pardon. I must have been intoxicated myself. Oh! Forgive me, and I'll never say a word about this. Oh! Oh! Indeed I won't if you spare my life," sobbing in a low hysterical voice.

Rosa. - "And you will forgive us all, and thank us for making you sober again? Fie! Fie! Miss Flaybum. You were indeed overcome. Was it not so?" giving a sharp cut right up under her pussey, to keep her from fainting, and steady to her promises.

Victim. - "Yes! Yes! Oh! Ah - r - r - re! I'm sorry to have forgotten myself, and - and - I do thank you for correcting me with firmness. Oh! Oh! Have mercy now, let me kneel and kiss the rod."

What a pitiable object she looked, kneeling in front of me, as she kissed the broken stump of the birch, which was now well dyed in her own blood. Such a sight of abject terror and degraded, humiliated pride, as well as the burning shame of all she had to endure; her cheeks were stained with tears, and her face and neck blushing nearly as red as her still exposed bottom; for, to humiliate her as much as possible, she had to kneel with her clothes still pinned up behind.

I don't know what possessed me, but I felt such extraordinary excitement that I hardly knew what I was doing; my only idea being that she was getting off too easily. So, suddenly stooping, I said, "Ha! Ha! Miss Audrey Clementine Flaybum, you know what a good birching is like now. I must look and see how I have pickled your delicate rump for you. I haven't cut it up too much," passing my hand all over the raw lacerated posteriors. "It will be well in a week, although there is a good deal of blood. See, see," wiping my hand all over her face, to her intense shame and disgust, just as she was beginning to slightly recover herself.

This was the last indignity before we allowed her to retreat to her room.

As to ourselves, we were indeed intoxicated with success, so that I shall never forget the goings on of that last night at school, how the girls rushed about to each other's rooms, and revelled in every kind of lasciviousness one with another. Sleep was banished from our eyes, and nothing but the advent of breaking-up day put an end to our orgie of sensuality.

Miss Flaybum was not visible next day, and the only reference she ever made to our memorable scene of retributive justice was an enormous charge for damaged glass in my school bill.

This will end my letter for the present, but, dear Nellie, when I return from my tour, perhaps I can tell you a little more of my experiences.

Your affectionate friend. ROSA BELINDA COOTE.

(To be continued.)


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The Pearl/Volume 5/The Spell of the Rod.

When Lucy's fine rump was first bared to the twigs. She was finely cut up and her flesh torn in shreds; She cried out for mercy in her dire distress. Promising amendment as we lowered her dress.

She had been most naughty, and a bad rude girl. Who presumed the hair on her fanny to curl; But the birch reached her quim as well as her bum. The height of her agony was glorious fun.

Her frightened looks, and deep blushes of shame. Set our hearts pit-a-pit, and our senses in flame; The old cockolorums our cunnies would grope. Then tossed us on sofas and had a fine stroke.

So all those slow coaches, who a rise scarce can get; Come, pay your respect to Our Lady St. Bridget; She'll warm up your blood till it boils in your veins, And your penis all his pristine vigour regains.

Let the birch be your love, St. Bridget your saint, Never flinch from the rod, nor think of a faint; Swish - swish - let it fall, till the glow of desire. Will run thro' your senses, and set them on fire.

Ah! then you can fuck! and fuck, ah! so well! That my Muse quite fails your joys to foretell; But with oceans of spending, the fuck never ending, Your ecstasy goes on, for a long time extending.

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The Pearl/Volume 5/The State's New Duty.

An old Ballad upon the proposed Extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts to the Civil Population.

[The memorial to the Government for the extension of these Acts was signed by several Peers, six Bishops, ten Deans and Canons, forty-two Clergymen and Ministers, twenty-four Heads of Colleges and Masters of Public Schools, fourteen Professors of different Universities, nineteen Mayors, ten Chairmen of Quarter Sessions and Boards of Guardians, twenty-nine Sheriffs and Magistrates, &c.]

Vide letter of Messrs. J. B. Cuyenven and Berkely Hill to the Daily News, March 8th, 1871.

It was certain Holy Bishops, Noble Lords and bold M.P.'s. Deans, Rectors, Heads of Colleges, and numberless M.D.'s They met in solemn Council, to discuss in grave debate, And solve a weighty question, they thought worthy of the State.

It was not Education, it was not Irish Church. The Ballot and Permissive Bill, were both left in the lurch. There may be other evils, but said they, the greatest evil is. That a man can't have a woman, without the risk of Syphilis;

Said they, the state takes measures that tradesmen shall not cheat, In selling meat, or fish, or fruit, that isn't fit to eat; It supervises Mutton, and is down on faulty weight, So to guarantee safe Harlots is the duty of the State.

(Now the women had no voice, or else they might have said. "If you regulate the sale of Human flesh, like meat and bread You should grant to us the tradesman's right, by action to recover The wages of our labour against a bilking lover.")

So a noble Act was passed, the Preamble whereof ran, "Whereas to fornicate is the right of every man. "And whereas in exercise of that right are oft contracted "Disagreeable reminiscences! Be it hereby enacted:

"That a special force of Peelers, henceforth each city pay. "To apprehend all women, they suspect of being gay; "Who if they don't disprove the charge before some worthy Beak. "Shall by this Act, be Speculumed in batches, once a week;

"That in every Town a Surgeon, be appointed to the Post, "With Speculums provided at the British Nation's Cost; "And five hundred pounds per annum, to be quarterly paid down, "To guarantee the soundness of the women of the Town."

Then happy were the Peelers of that sanctified Division, That was specially deputed to this female supervision; Thieves, Drunkards, and Garrotters, no longer were their care, But they played the spy on women who were volatile and fair;

If they saw a flaunting Petticoat that showed too much of calf, Or a naughty Girl, responding to an Ogle with a Laugh, If she wouldn't let the Peeler have a cut in with the Swell, Or tip from her earnings, the Justice not to tell,

Straightway the injured Peeler's virtuous conscience was relieved By yielding to the Justice information he'd received; And such unhappy damsels as a Peeler might select, For reasons of his own, to be pronounced "suspect,"

Were all served with a Summons to disprove it to the Beak. Or submit them to be Speculumed in batches once a week; Then cried every youthful student, "That examining M.D., With £500 per annum, would be just the Post for me.

No wealthy wife with Coach and Pair, or Patients, would I seek But I'd Speculum the ladies at £9 10s. per week!" And thus began the era of Sexual legislation: To man alone the State allows Free-trade in Fornication;

Diseased or sound - no matter - let him riot fancy free. And gaily pox the ladies that the Peelers guarantee; Is not Man the Nobler sex, for whom was Woman made? And shall harassing Inspections his liberties invade?

For Man alone, the Bill of Rights, and Magna Charta passed; And shall Free-born Fornicators be with dirty Harlots classed? The sauce that suits the Goose, o'er the nobler Gander pour? Or the State restrict the God-like Sex's privilege to whore?

Since clandestine harlots will in spite of Statutes lure. In spite of all espionage to keep the men secure; Methinks the Act is faulty, in not finding means to know The Article that's warranted, from her that is not so.

A list should be placarded conspicuous to see, Or some special Chignon ordered, for the Girls we guarantee. And since on Prostitution 'tis resolved to legislate (Like Cab fares and Pawnbroking, and the sale of bread by weight);

Methinks 'twere only logical to extend the Act's protection, And not limit our paternal care to personal infection. Why not advance another step, extortion to put down, And regulate the charges of women of the town?

A Commission might be ordered, a scale of fees to draw, Composed of the supporters of this Sanitary Law (These Bishops, Deans and Doctors, who have found a new vocation In preaching up the doctrine of the right of Fornication.)

How early that Commission could assemble every morn. Taking evidence from Regent Street, the Argyle and Cremorne, Making curious calculations, how to regulate aright The charge for short engagements, and engagements for all night.

Meditating from the Cab rules, of suggestions the adoption. A charge for work done, or by time, at the Engager's option. For reference the Reverends their Bibles might turn over. To see the charge of Tamar to her Israelitisch lover;

And ponder if the object of the Heaven-inspired Narrator Was suggestions for the guidance of each future fornicator? While all Schoolmasters - Bishops, who had on the subject brooded, Could advise them whether birching should be extra or included.


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The Pearl/Volume 5/Lady Pokingham, or They All Do It.

Giving an Account of her Luxurious Adventures, both before and after her Marriage with Lord Crim-Con

Part III.

(Continued.)

He hastily wrote the assignation on his tablets, and we made haste to return to the saloons from which we had been absent quite twenty minutes. A little while after, as I was sitting by the side of Alice, whispering my adventure in her ear, Lady Montairy, to whom I had previously been introduced, came and seated herself by my side. "Ah!" she said, with a sly look, "you're in a fair way to carry off the great prize; my sister Corisande will stand no chance."

"I've only danced one set with him," I replied, demurely.

"Ah!" she laughed, "it was not the Lancers I referred to, but your quiet stroll into the recesses of the conservatory. You had quite a lover's tete-a-tete."

"But we did not indulge in a Pas Sett!, as you did with His Grace," I laughed, enjoying her confusion.

She was speechless with surprise, her eyes fairly started with affright, and I hastened to reassure her, "I'm your friend, dear Lady Montairy, your secret is safe with me, and I hope you will not make any remarks in connection with myself and Lothair."

She squeezed my hand nervously, and asked, "Do you remember Fred's birthday? I was not there, but my brother Bertram was with his cousins the Vavasours, and passed as their brother Charlie, who happened to be too ill to go with them. I'm initiated into your society. We shall meet again," she added with a smile; "I must go now to keep my engagements."

The supper was a fairy feast, except for its substantial reality, and we returned home to Lady St. Jerome's charmed with everything, and especially with the fine prospect we seemed to have of future enjoyment.

Next day I made an excuse to go out alone to pay a visit to an old schoolfellow, and two o'clock found me sauntering through Burlington Arcade. Lothair was there to the minute, and gently whispered in my ear, as I was looking in a doll-shop.

"Now, this is really kind of Your Ladyship, and proves you can be depended on; I have made a most excellent arrangement, we have only to step across the road to the Bristol Hotel in Burlington Gardens, where I have ordered luncheon for myself and cousin, in a private apartment, and they know me too well to pry into my affairs."

The chamber-maid attended me in the bedroom, and as soon as I had laid aside my cloak, hat, &c, I rejoined Lothar in the adjoining apartment, where a sumptuous luncheon was set out.

Lothair, whose shyness of the previous evening seemed considerably dispelled, most gallantly insisted upon my partaking of refreshment, before a word of my communication should be uttered. "Besides," he said, "a little champagne will give you courage, if it is at all disagreeable; the scene last night was such a shock to both of us that if you now prefer to be silent I won't press you about what you mentioned in the excitement of such a moment."

His conversation was very lively all through the repast, and when we had nearly finished I asked him to ring for a little milk, which was brought to me; he was at the moment abstractedly examining the debris of a pate de foie gras. I poured part of the milk into two champagne glasses, and slyly added about ten drops of tincture of cantharides, with which Alice had provided me, to his portion. "Now, my Lord," I said, "I challenge you to pledge me in a glass of my favourite beverage, champagne and milk, I think it is delicious," pouring out the fizzing wine, and handing him the glass, which I first touched with my lips.

His eyes sparkled with delight as he drained it to the bottom, and flung the empty glass over his shoulder, exclaiming, "No one shall ever put their lips to that again, it was indeed a challenge, Lady Beatrice, after which nothing but the reality will satisfy me," then rising, he persisted in claiming the kiss I had, as he alleged, challenged him to take.

"Now," he continued, drawing me to a sofa, "let us sit down and hear the awful communication you hinted at; who were those wretched men?"

"Monsignore Berwick and Father Coleman," I replied; "did you ever hear of a secret sisterhood of St. Bridget, the nuns belonging to which devote both soul and person to the service of the Church?"

"No, never, go on," said Lothair, so I continued: "These nuns are all aristocratic ladies, who devote themselves, as I said, implicitly to the interests of Holy Mother Church, to satisfy and appease the lusts of her priests, as well as marry any influential man they think they can lead by the silken tie of matrimony; such, my Lord, are Lady St. Jerome and Miss Arundel."

"Incredible," exclaimed Lothair, "but I cannot doubt your word, dear Beatrice - permit me to call you," his eyes looking amorously at me, and evidently already slightly moved by the exciting dose I had given him. I took his hand in mine, it was feverishly warm, then looking him full in the face: "My dear Lord, I would not have been here if for one moment I had thought you could doubt my word."

"Call me Lothair, darling, throw away all awkward reserve," he said, putting his arm around my waist, and giving another lass on my cheek, "go on; tell me all about those fiendish priests who have been plotting to ensnare me."

"Take my advice, Lothair," I went on, "you will find Miss Clare quite changed her demure and reserved aspect turned to alluring and captivating glances; the Cardinal's orders are positive that she is not to spare even her honour if necessary, but that is an article I saw her surrender to the confessor." Then I described to him the scene we had witnessed in the chapel, which, added to the effects of the tincture, seemed quite to work him up to a state of amorous excitement.

"Honour! Honour!" he exclaimed, excitedly. "Alas! dear Beatrice, last night I felt able to lose life rather than that, and now it's gone, fled like a shadow, but what is it after all, but a mean, mistrustful shame; you must be mine, I can't restrain the fire of love which is consuming me; the very sin makes the idea more delicious." My faint efforts were useless, he was a fine strong young fellow; in an instant I was thrown backwards on the sofa, and his hands took possession of my longing cunny; the furor of lust was upon him, but I made a fair show of resistance, and seemed only to yield to force, shutting my eyes as if afraid to see how he was exposing himself.

He roughly forced my thighs apart, and throwing himself upon me, I could feel the hot soft head of his cock forcing its way between the lips of my vagina. I struggled and contracted myself as much as possible, and having previously well bathed the parts in a strong solution of alum and water, he experienced as great tightness and difficulty in penetration as if I had really been a virgin. My subdued cries of pain were real, for his big affair hurt me very much, but he gradually won his way, which was at the last moment facilitated by a copious spend.

"Ah! Darling; how delightful," he cried, as he lay with his weapon up to the hilt, throbbing and enjoying the lascivious contractions to which I now treated him.

His lips were fixed to mine; the soft velvety tip of his tongue was a titbit I could not refuse, and I sucked it till I almost choked for want of breath. He spent again under the stimulating emotions with which I inspired him. He lay still for a few moments as we recovered our breath, then, with an upward motion of my buttocks, I challenged him to go on.

It was a most erotically voluptuous love engagement. I could not exhaust him; he was continually shooting his love juice into my very insatiable womb, and it was more than an hour before either of us would consent to a cessation of the game.

All that time we had been as closely joined together as the Siamese twins, only one heart and one soul seemed to animate us, whilst we were constantly returning the flow of sperm one after the other in the most thrilling manner.

After we had washed and refreshed ourselves, he begged my forgiveness for his impulsiveness, and promised to make me his wife, but I recalled to him his words of the previous evening: "That it was better for a man never to marry," and that for my part I thought that such sweet liaisons could never be enjoyed by "married people."

"Ha! Ha!" I laughed. "You have the two nuns of St. Bridget to enjoy. Be advised by me, and seem to fall into their traps. I will introduce you to another secret society which you have little idea of. It is devoted to the pleasure of love, without being under the control of a lustful priesthood. You shall meet me again this day week and tell me how you get on."

He parted from me very lovingly; and on my return to St. James' Square, I found that Lady Montairy had brought an invitation from the Duchess for us to spend a few days at Crecy House before our return to the country.

"How delightful," said Alice. "The Duke has gone to Paris on business, and the Duchess is often indisposed; we shall find ourselves in Paphian bowers."

Lothair dined with us that evening, but neither of us betrayed, by word or look, the new link between us.

Miss Arundel was attractive, and even alluring, in her manner towards him. Her face was all smiles as she addressed him in tones of sympathy, even of tenderness. Bewitching enough to turn the head of any less susceptible (even than Lothair) to the influence of the softer sex. She looked divine, dressed in a wondrous white robe, garlanded with violets just arrived from Paris; on her head a violet wreath, deep and radiant as her eyes, and which admirably contrasted with her dark golden brown hair.

I could see he was fascinated. He asked us an to drive down to Richmond and dine with him the next day, but Alice declined for me and herself, alleging as a reason the short time we had to stay in town, and that we should at once have to avail ourselves of the Duchess's invitation, and with Lady Jerome's permission would remove to Crecy House early in the morning.

I could see this plan afforded them infinite satisfaction. So next day saw us welcomed at Crecy House by Lady Bertha St. Aldegonde on behalf of the Duchess, who was confined to her room. Lady Montairy conducted us to our apartments, and dismissing the attendants as soon as possible, she embraced me first, and then Alice, saying: "How nice of you two dears to come so soon. You're just in time for a most important ceremony. To-morrow Mama thinks we are all going to the Academy, but in reality it is quite a different place. The fact is, Corisande is going to be received as a member of the Paphian Circle, as we call the society which you helped to originate. St. Aldegonde, indifferent and 'ne'er do well' as he seems, is the life and soul of it; Bertha indulges him in everything. Jealousy is unknown in our family. You win meet Bertram, Carisbrooke, and Brecon all there. We only want Lothair to make it perfection, as Corisande means to taste and try which she likes best."

Alice. - "But surely we're not obliged to wait till to-morrow. Can't you. Victoria, give us a little party in your room to-night?"

"Yes," she answered. "But only a hen party; ourselves and Corisande. My room is the next to yours. The gentlemen will be at the clubs. St. Aldegonde never will have a woman at night, and says the morning is the proper time, because his cock always stands best on an empty stomach before breakfast."

(To be continued.)


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The Pearl/Volume 5/A Black Joseph.

[The Trial of Mrs. Inglefield, wife of J. R. Nicholson Inglefield, Esq., Captain of Her Majesty's Ship Scipio, for Adultery with John Webb, a black servant, in the Consistory Court, 1786.]

John Webb - a second Joseph - a black footman to Captain Inglefield, was the only material evidence against the lady. Previous to his deposition he had lived with the parties two years, mostly at Singlewell, a small village near Graves-end. When he first went there, the family consisted of three small children, all girls; in two or three months afterwards his mistress was delivered of a boy.

From the first moment of his being engaged he thought she took more notice of him than became her. She frequently smiled on him and took hold of his hand, and gently pressed it. About a month after her accouchement, happening to be alone with his lady, she put her hand about his neck, and kissed him. Upon the black drawing off, she laughed at him.

The next day after this occurrence, as he was dressing her hair, she put her hand under his apron, and unbuttoned one of the flaps of his breeches, and began handling and playing with his privities, but the witness, not liking this, declared he would not finish her hair if she did not let him alone. The lady, therefore, was again obliged to laugh it off.

The next day after this, in the forenoon, being summoned by the sound of the chamber bell, he went into the room, where he found his mistress alone, sitting on the foot of the bed. Mungo - according to his own account - avoided going near her as much as possible, but at length she caught him by the skirt of his coat, placed him on her lap, and handled his privities on the outside of his breeches, at the same time asking him - "Can you do anything? Do not be afraid; your master will know nothing about it." All this, however, made no impression on the generative powers of our African hero. He was a eunuch in spirit, though not in parts, and he tore himself away, but whether at this period he left his mistress laughing or crying does not appear.

The succeeding day, however, Mrs. I. renewed the glorious strife; while under the operation of hair-dressing, she once more applied her delicate hand to the rude parts of Master Comb, and was proceeding to unbutton when he drew himself off, leaving his mistress laughing out an intimation that she should leave her bedroom door open that night, and that he must come.

Master Webb, failing to improve the hint, was the next day met in an angry mood by his enraged mistress, who now spoke very harshly to him.

During these attempts it seems the Captain was from home, which was the time, he says, when his mistress tormented him the most. But what affected him more than all was that one day she absolutely kissed him before her daughter, a child of about four years old.

Towards the end of the summer the Captain and his lady resided on board the Scipio, then laying at Scheerness, for about a month, and one morning about 10 o'clock, when they had been there a fortnight, the Captain being gone on shore, his mistress called him into the after-cabin of the ship, and told him to empty a basin of water, which, when he had done, she shut the cabin door, took him round the waist with both her arms, kissed him and then, as a matter of course, handled him about his privities on the outside, he preventing her from unbuttoning.

All these warm attacks our youthful Negro of nineteen manfully withstood, and after some struggling he liberated his sweet desirable person from the fangs of his mistress, but passing from the room he was observed by Charles McCarthy, the steward of the ship, who questioned him as to what he had been doing, to which he replied-"nothing."

Two or three days after this aquatic adventure, he was questioned by his master as to all the previous particulars, when, like a faithful servant, he told him all that he knew. In consequence of which Captain Inglefield from that time ceased to cohabit with his wife. The concluding declaration of Webb is: "That he and his mistress, notwithstanding the critical situations in which he was placed, never had once the carnal use and knowledge of each other's bodies."

McCarthy, the Steward, corroborated the cabin incident, but in the end the Judge declared there was no proof of the lady's guilt, and ordered Captain Inglefield to take his wife home and treat her with matrimonial affection, and to certify his having so done by the first session of the next term.

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The Pearl/Volume 5/Into the Bargain.

Two lads were out on Hertford Heath And being flush of money. Offered two shillings to a wench, To let them view her cunny.

They viewed it with extreme delight, Stark naked and provoking; They paid their shillings for the sight, The touching and the stroking.

"Now," said the cunning little slut, "Just add a sixpence each; And you shall see my very scut! I'll let you see my breech."

"What fun!" exclaim the simple boys, So they the shilling paid; Then pulling up her smock behind, Her bottom she displayed.

And so they peeped, and felt their fill; Then cried the giggling lass, "Your bargain shall be better still; Say 'Please,' and kiss my arse!"

title: The Pearl/Volume 5/Into the Bargain.


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The Pearl/Volume 5/Origin of Copulation.

Success to dame Nature, for 'twas by her plan, That woman first thought of enjoyment from man; She knew that of pleasure they'd never be sick, And so out of kindness, invented a prick!

A stiff-standing, glorious prick! Voluptuous, rubicund prick! Oh, surely, of fortune it came in the nick, Good-natured dame Nature to give us a prick!

Without it how lost would a poor maiden be, It tickles her quim, makes her water run free; Most women a handle would have to their front, So they've only to thrust a long prick in their cunt!

Their hairy, voluptuous cunt! Their sweet little, queer little cunt! What damsel no handle would have to their front? And prick e'er has been a great friend unto cunt!

When nature to woman gave two mouths, she will'd, Of course, that they both should be equally filled, And if women will look after one mouth, you know That prick will look after the mouth that's below!

Stiff-standing, glorious prick! Voluptuous, rubicund prick! Oh, surely, of fortune it came in the nick, Good-natured dame Nature to give us a prick!

When sorrow torments lovely woman, oh dear. A mighty good fucking will banish despair; If her belly but aches, why we all know the trick, There's nothing can ease it so well as a prick!

A nice luscious prick! A stiff-standing prick! For any young maiden it can do the trick. Oh, joys there are plenty, but nothing like prick!


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The Pearl/Volume 5/Taking a Maidenhead.

Air - "Gee, ho Dobbin."

Oh, Maidenhead-taking's a very great bore, It makes cunt and prick so confoundedly sore; But fucking the third time's like heaven above. For your prick then glides in as you draw on a glove!

Gee up, Roger. Wag up, Roger, Roger's a thing that all women admire!

Oh, give me a damsel of blooming fifteen, With two luscious thighs and a mouse-trap between, With the fringe on the edge, and two red lips I say. In her cunt I'd be diving by night and by day!

Gee up, &c.

That woman would be a disgrace to our land, Who would not take a prick, when it stiffy does stand; And when it droops low as if it were in dread, She must tickle the balls, till it lifts up its head!

Gee up, &c.

Cunt is a treasure which monarchs admire, Cunt is a thing that my theme doth inspire; Cunt is a mighty temptation to sin, But cunt is a hole that I'd ever be in!

Gee up, &c.

Prick is its friend, its first cousin, I ween, Tho' prick I confess is a rare go-between; Prick to a woman much joy can impart, And prick is a thing that she loves in her heart!

Gee up, &c.

Then here's to the female who yields to a man, And here's to the man who'll fuck when he can, For fucking creates all our joy on earth, And from fucking you know, we all date our birth.

Gee up, Roger, Wag up, Roger, Roger's a thing that all women admire.

title: The Pearl/Volume 5/Taking a Maidenhead.


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The Pearl/Volume 5/Epitaph.

Here lies the amorous Fanny Hicks, The scabbard of ten thousand pricks, And if you wish to do her honour, Pull out your cock, and piss upon her.

title: The Pearl/Volume 5/Epitaph.


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The Pearl/Volume 5/The Triumph of Science Over Physic.

Home they brought the warrior, fed To repletion more than just; And the servants, chuckling, said. "He must shit or he will bust."

Then they gave him castor oil. Pills and drugs of many a sort; Yet despite their loving toil, He would not be taken short.

Stole a maiden to the spot. And emetics, laughing, dared; Yet in vain she held the pot, For he only belched and glared.

Came a nurse of ninety years. An enema huge she bore; Shoved it up amidst their jeers, And he shat for evermore.


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The Pearl/Volume 5/Song.

If anxious Venus, beauty's queen! Your empire should endure. Borrow Cecilia's face and mien, Our homage to ensure.

Though perfect all the charms may seem, That famed Apelles drew. Not half so sweet are they, I deem. As fair Cecilia's Cu.

The feelings of my faithful heart My mouth shall still express, Upon that Cu-, delicious part. In rapture's wild caress.

Oh! ye, who ne'er disquiet felt, Nor aught but virtue knew. Whence is it? But your eye ne'er dwelt Upon Cecilia's Cu.

Cecilia, think not, from my brain, The souvenir can remove, Of thy sweet Cu, 'twill there remain, Imprinted fast by Love!

But if my thread of life should break, Expire thy lover true. May I flight 'mid kisses take, Imprinted on thy Cu!

title: The Pearl/Volume 5/Song.


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The Pearl/Volume 5/Gone to Ca-Ca.

Tom brought home some friends, And not finding his dear, But only young Harry, Who look'd rather queer.

(Papa) Hush, Harry! What nonsense! Run, call your Mama!

(Boy) Mama and de Captain Are gone to Ca-Ca.

(Papa) Hush, Harry! What nonsense! Just hear the child talk!

(Boy) Captain pull down his breeches, Ma pull up her frock!

title: The Pearl/Volume 5/Gone to Ca-Ca.


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The Pearl/Volume 5/The Patience of Job.

A farmer and his wife, who had been to church one Sunday morning, were walking home through a country lane, when John said, "Excuse me, my dear, for a minute or two, I want to get over the hedge to do something for myself." After rather a long interval his loving wife, who had walked on a little, returned to look for him, and could hear her good man on the other side of the hedge, blasting, swearing, and damning at an awful rate. She managed to get over to him, and then seeing him stooping down as if troubled by a very hard motion, exclaimed, "John! John! how can you swear so, don't you remember what the parson said about the patience of Job?"

"Blast that damned Job," exclaimed the furious John, "he never had his balls caught in a rabbit trap! Why don't you make haste to help me?"

The poor fellow stooping down to ease himself, had really been caught, and his wife had to release him and help him home.

title: The Pearl/Volume 5/The Patience of Job.


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The Pearl/Volume 5/Latest Sporting News.

RESULT OF THE WHORING HANDICAP.

Syphilis... 1 Chancre ... 2 Bubo ... 3

Immediately the flag dropped Gonorrhea began making the running for Injection (a brown colt out of Syringe). Coming round the Chordee Bend, Poultice showed well to the front, but when once in the Straight was soon left behind.

They passed the Grand Stand in the following order: Syphilis first, Chancre second, Bubo third, and Suppuration a bad fourth, closely followed by Unction. Black Wash, Lint, and Copaiba. Testicle pulled up much distressed, Capsules bolted. Doctor's Bill (extra weight) came in last.

The Sporting Prophets say that if French Letter had not been scratched she would have altered the result of the race.


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The Pearl/Volume 5/Nursery Rhymes.

There was a young man of Berlin. Whome disease had despoiled of his skin; But he said with much pride. "Though deprived of my hide, I can still enjoy a put in."

There was a young woman of Cheadle, Who once gave the clap to a beadle. Said she, "Does it itch?" "It does, you damned bitch, And burns like hell-fire when I peedle."

There was an old Chinaman drunk, Who went for a sail in his junk, He was dreaming of Venus, And tickling his penis, Till he floated away in the spunk.

There was a young man of Rangoon, Who farted and filled a balloon. The balloon went so high, That it stuck in the sky, And stank out the Man in the Moon.

There was a young man at the Cape, On a maiden committed a rape. Said she, "You damned shit, You can't fuck a bit, And you're knocking my quim out of shape."

There was a young parson of Harwich, Tried to grind his betrothed in a carriage. She said "No, you young goose, Just try self-abuse, And the other we'll try after marriage."

There was a young man of St. Paul's, Possessed the most useless of balls. Till at last, at the Strand, He managed a stand, And tossed himself off in the stalls.

There was a young lady of Treadle, Who sat down in Church on a needle. The needle, not blunt. Penetrated her cunt, But was promptly removed by the beadle.

There was a young girl of Newcastle, Whose charms were declared universal. While one man in front Wired into her cunt, Another was engaged at her arsehole.

There was a young parson of Goring. Who made a small hole in the flooring; He lined it all round, Then laid on the ground, And declared it was cheaper than whoring.

When Mrs. Conwell was in this country, she showed me a copy she had made of a large picture of a Turkish soldier on horseback. She had made the horse's testicles very conspicuous, and then shamming ignorance, pointed at them, saying, "That is the rider's foot on the other side."

"Yes," said I, with a low bow, "very like a foot!" This made her giggle.

title: The Pearl/Volume 5/Nursery Rhymes.


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6 grasp, as if I would seize a javelin, and hurl it, I know not at whom or what; and then I fancy an arrow is shot at me which pierces me to the heart: I strike my hand upon my breast, and feel an inexpressible sweetness; and then after this I soon revert to my natural state. Whence comes this strange phenomenon? what is the meaning of it? and why does it invariably recur under the same figures, in the same bodily movement, and with the same sensation?

I am repeatedly told that the people who have met me on my journey are little satisfied with me. I can readily believe it, for neither has any one of them contributed to my satisfaction. I cannot tell how it comes to pass that society oppresses me, that the forms of politeness are disagreeable to me, that what people talk about does not interest me, that all they show to me is either quite indifferent, or else produces an impression quite opposite to what they expect. When I am shown a drawing or painting of any beautiful spot, immediately a feeling of disquiet arises within me which is utterly inexpressible. My toes within my shoes begin to bend, as if they would clutch the ground: a cramp-like motion runs through my fingers. I bite my lips, and hasten to leave the company I am in, and throw myself down, in the presence of the majesty of nature, on the first seat, however inconvenient. I try to take in the scene before me with my eye, to seize all its beauties; and on the spot I love to cover a whole sheet with scratches which represent nothing exactly, but which, nevertheless, possess an infinite value in my eyes, as serving to remind me of the happy moment whose bliss even this bungling exercise could not mar. What means, then, this strange effort to pass from art to nature, and then back again from nature to art? If it gives promise of an artist, why is steadiness wanting to me? If it calls me to


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Rh enjoyment, wherefore, then, am I not able to seize it? I lately had a present of a basket of fruit. I was in raptures at the sight of it, as of something heavenly,—such riches, such abundance, such variety, and yet such affinity! I could not persuade myself to pluck off a single berry: I could not bring myself to take a single peach or a fig. Most assuredly this gratification of the eye and the inner sense is the highest and most worthy of man: in all probability it is the design of Nature, when the hungry and thirsty believe that she has exhausted herself in marvels merely for the gratification of their palate. Ferdinand came and found me in the midst of these meditations. He did me justice, and then said, smiling, but with a deep sigh, "Yes, we are not worthy to consume these glorious products of Nature: truly it were a pity. Permit me to make a present of them to my beloved?" How glad was I to see the basket carried off! How did I love Ferdinand! How did I thank him for the feeling he had excited in me, for the prospect he gave me! Ay, we ought to acquaint ourselves with the beautiful: we ought to contemplate it with rapture, and attempt to raise ourselves up to its height. And, in order to gain strength for that, we must keep ourselves thoroughly unselfish: we must not make it our own, but rather seek to communicate it, indeed, to make a sacrifice of it to those who are dear and precious to us.

How sedulously we are shaped and moulded in our youth! how constantly we then are called on to lay aside now this, now that, bad feeling! But what, in fact, are our so-called bad feelings, but so many organs by means of which man is to aid himself in life? How people worry a poor child in whom but a little spark of vanity is discovered! and yet what a poor miserable creature is a man who has no vanity at all! I will now tell you what has led me to make all these


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The New International Encyclopædia/Mecca

MECCA (Ar. Makkah, or Bakkah, Koran, Sura iii. 90; called also al-Musharrifah, the Exalted, Umm al-Kura, mother of cities, and al-Batad al-Amīn, the safe place, known to the geographer Ptolemy as Macoraba). Capital of the Turkish Province of Hedjaz in Arabia, and, through being the birthplace of Mohammed, and containing the Kaaba, the central and most holy city of all Islam. The two other principal holy cities are Medina and Jerusalem. It is situated in latitude 21° 28' N. and in longitude 40° 15' E., 250 miles south of Medina, and about 60 miles east of Jiddah, its port on the Red Sea, in a narrow, barren valley, surrounded by bare hills from 250 to 800 feet high. The city is about a mile and a half long, and from one-third to two-thirds of a mile wide, and is divided into the upper and lower city. An aqueduct built by Zubaidah (810), wife of Harun al-Rashid, brings good water from the mountains to the east. By its position, Mecca commands the trade routes connecting lower Hedjaz with North, South, and Central Arabia, and it has at all times been a commercial and religious centre. The streets are somewhat regular, but unpaved; dusty in summer, and muddy during the rainy season. The houses are often five stories high. Some of the Government buildings, the Hamidiyyah, or palace of the Governor, the printing office, the chief watch-house, and the three armories, are in the new part of the city (al-Jiyād) southeast of the Ḥarām, or sacred precincts, and this part of the city has a European appearance. The only manufactures of Mecca are rosaries and pottery; some dyeing is also done; the inhabitants make their living chiefly by letting rooms at the time of the pilgrimage (see ) to the pilgrims who come here often to the number of 100000. The largest number of these pilgrims are Malays and Indians; then come negroes, Persians, Turks, Egyptians, Syrians, Tatars, and Chinese. Ordinarily the city contains about 50,000 inhabitants. The centre of the city is the Masjid al-Ḥarām, or Sacred Mosque, which lies beneath the level upon which the rest of the city stands and is always liable to inundations from the Sail or mountain torrent. This sacred area is capable

of holding 35,000 people. (See .) A great number of people are attached to the mosque in some kind of ecclesiastical capacity, as Khāṭibs (preachers), Kātibs (scribes), Muftis, judicial assessors, muezzins, etc. In addition to this, each section of the Mohammedan world has its representatives in Mecca, who take care of its pilgrims, provide them with lodgings, instruct them in the ceremonies, and the like. By the side of the mosque runs the Mas‘ah, a street lined by high houses and reaching up to the hills, Safa and Marwah, through which the pilgrims must run seven times. A telegraph line connects Mecca with Jiddah on the west and with Taif on the east, where the Meccans spend their summer.

The history of Mecca has been an eventful one. Mohammedan legend holds that it was inhabited by Ishmael, whose posterity was supplanted by the Bann Jurḥum of Yemen, who in their turn were supplanted by the Khuza'a, also of Yemen, in the year A.D. 210. About 450 a certain Kussaï of the Koreish family, and an ancestor of Mohammed, seized the Kaaba and his family is supposed to reign there to-day. Here Mohammed was born (c.570), and in the same year the city was menaced by the Abyssinians (‘Year of the Elephant’). Its patricians opposed the Prophet, but gave in eight years after he had fled to Medina. Though large sums of money were lavished upon it by successive Mohammedan rulers, it was not an easy city to hold. It had its own pretender to the Caliphate in Abdallah-ben-Zobeïr, who was besieged in Mecca in 692 by the Caliph al-Hajjaj and finally slain. In 930 it was devastated by the Karmathians. But it always had its own rulers or sherifs, descendants of the Prophet through Hasan, son of Ali; and, though they recognized the supremacy of the Fatimites, Mamelukes, and Turkish sultans, they had a large measure of independence. Since Selim I. (1517) they have ruled in the name of the Turkish Sultan. In 1803 the Wahhabis took the city, but were driven out by Mehemet Ali in 1813. A change in the dynasty of sherifs occurred in 1827. Since 1840 their prestige has gradually diminished, a Wali (Governor) being sent by the Porte to offset their power. Though all non-Mohammedans are strictly prohibited from visiting the sacred territory, a few Europeans have been there (see, where the literature will also be found). Consult Snouck-Hurgronje, Mekka (The Hague, 1888-89, with atlas), which is the standard work on the subject.


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8. The day before yesterday we were joined by a young fellow who was most disagreeable to me and Ferdinand. His weak points were so prominent, his emptiness so manifest, and the care he bestowed on his outward appearance so obvious, that we looked down upon him as far inferior to ourselves; and yet he was everywhere received better than we. Among other of his follies he wore a waistcoat of red satin, which round the neck was so cut as to look like the ribbon of some order or other. We could not refrain from joking about this piece of absurdity. But he let them all pass; for he drew a good profit from it, and perhaps secretly laughed at us. For host and hostess, coachman, waiter, and chambermaid, and, indeed, not a few of our fellow travellers, were taken in by this seeming ornament, and showed greater politeness to him than to us. Not only was he always first waited upon, but, to our great humiliation, we saw that all the pretty girls in the inns bestowed all their stolen glances upon him. And then, when it came to the reckoning, which his eminence and distinction had enhanced, we had to pay our full shares. Who, then, was the fool in the game? Assuredly not he.

There is something pretty and instructive about the symbols and maxims which one here sees on all the stoves. Here you have the drawing of one of these symbols which particularly caught my fancy. A horse, tethered by his hind foot to a stake, is grazing round it as far as his tether will permit: beneath is written, "Allow me to take my allotted portion of food." This, too, will be the case with me when I come home, and, like the horse in the mill, shall have to work away at your pleasure, and in return, like the horse here on the stove, shall receive a nicely measured dole for my support. Yes, I am coming back; and what awaits me was certainly well worth all the trouble of


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Rh climbing up these mountain heights, of wandering through these valleys, and seeing this blue sky, of discovering that there is a nature which exists by an eternal, voiceless necessity, which has no wants, no feelings, and is divine; whilst we, whether in the country or in the towns, have alike to toil hard to gain a miserable subsistence, and at the same time struggle to subject everything to our lawless caprice, and call it liberty.

Ay, I have ascended the Furca,—the summit of St. Gothard. These sublime, incomparable scenes of nature will ever stand before my eye. Ay, I have read the Roman history in order to gain from the comparison a distinct and vivid feeling what a thoroughly miserable being I am.

Never has it been so clear to me as during these last few days, that I, too, could be happy on moderate means; could be quite as happy as any one else, if only I knew a trade,—an exciting one, indeed, but yet one which had no consequences for the morrow, which required nothing but industry and attention at the time, without calling for either foresight or retrospection. Every mechanic seems to me the happiest of mortals: all he has to do is already settled for him, what he can do is fixed and known. He has not to rack his brains over the task that is set him. He works away without thinking, without exertion or haste, but still with diligence and pleasure in his work, like a bird building its nest, or a bee constructing its cells. He is but a degree above the beasts, and yet he is a perfect man. How do I envy the potter at his wheel, or the joiner behind his bench!

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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bitzius, Albert

BITZIUS, Albert (pseud. ), Swiss author: b. at Murten in Switzerland, 4 Oct. 1797; d. in Lutzelflüh im Emmental in Switzerland, 22 Oct. 1854. He belonged to a family of pastors, and after studying theology in Bern and Göttingen and traveling in Germany, he became first vicar and in 1832 pastor in Lützelflüh, which position he occupied until his death. He did not begin writing until late in life. His first work, ‘Der Bauernspiegel, oder die Lebensgeschichte des Jeremias Gotthelf’ appeared in 1836. It sketches the development of a poor country orphan boy, but is not an autobiography. Henceforth Bitzius was a prolific writer and in the last 18 years of his life became one of the important novelists not only of Switzerland but of the German language in general. He was not a conscious

artist, but was nevertheless wonderfully gifted by nature. He saw things as they were, was susceptible to all impressions of life and reproduced them in true fashion — a genuine realist, though not a naturalist. He knows the peasant folk of his native country with all their fads and foibles. He sketches his characters with epic simplicity and yet elevates them into the domain of the universal. His peasant world is a mirror of the world in general. His greatest work is ‘Uli der Knecht’ (1841). It tells the story of a poor peasant laborer who develops into the owner of a prosperous farm. A plain theme, to which the epic imagination of Bitzius gives universal application. Vreneli, the chief woman character, charms us by the nobility and purity of her soul. Another novel almost on the same plane is ‘Uli der Pächter’ (1849). Three other novels may be classed in importance with Uli; ‘Anne Babi Jowäger’ (1843-44); ‘Geld und Geist’ (1842-46); and ‘Käthi, die Grossmutter’ (1847). One of his short stories, ‘Elise die seltsame Magd’ (1850) was particularly attractive to Gottfried Keller. Other works of lesser importance are ‘Leiden und Freuden eines Schulmeisters’ (1838); ‘Fünf Mädchen’ (1838); ‘Dursli, der Branntweinsäufer’ (1839); ‘Die Käserei in der Vehfreude’ (1850); ‘Zeitgeist und Bernergeist’ (1852). Bitzius is an interpreter of peasant psychology. In the writing of country and village stories he was a pioneer, and in his ideas on social betterment he pointed to the future. At times the preacher and reformer obtrudes and endangers the artistic effect, but we must admire the sincerity of his desire to ameliorate the condition of the poor. Consult Muret, Gabriel, ‘Jeremie Gotthelf’ (Paris 1913); also Roedder, E. C., in Vol. VIII of ‘The German Classics’ (New York 1914).


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10 me. In it man does but ape Nature, who scatters her seeds everywhere; whereas man would choose that a particular field should produce none but one particular fruit. But things do not go on exactly so: the weeds spring up luxuriantly; the cold and wet injures the crop, or the hail cuts it off entirely. The poor husbandman anxiously waits throughout the year to see how the cards will decide the game with the clouds, and determine whether he shall win or lose his stakes. Such a doubtful, ambiguous condition may be right suitable to man in his present ignorance, while he knows not whence he came, nor whither he is going. It may, then, be tolerable to man to resign all his labours to chance; and thus the parson, at any rate, has an opportunity, when things look thoroughly bad, to remind him of Providence, and to connect the sins of his flock with the incidents of Nature.

So, then, I have nothing to joke Ferdinand about! I, too, have met with a pleasant adventure. Adventure!—why do I use the silly word? There is nothing of adventure in a gentle attraction which draws man to man. Our social life, our false relations—those are adventures, those are monstrosities; and yet they come before us as well known, and as nearly akin to us, as uncle and aunt.

We had been introduced to Herr Tüdou; and we found ourselves very happy among this family,—rich, open-hearted, good-natured, lively people, who in the society of their children, in comfort and without care, enjoy the good which each day brings with it, their property, and their glorious neighbourhood. We young folks were not required, as is too often the case in so many formal households, to sacrifice ourselves at the card-table in order to humour the old. On the contrary, the old people—father, mother, and aunts—gathered round us, when, for our own amusement, we


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 (7) Recommandation donnée a un juge par un fonctionnaire public en faveur d'une des parties.

VIII. Crimes et délits commis directement contra l'exécution des sentences et des mandats de justice, savoir :

(1) Attaque ou resistance avec violence ou voies de fait contre les magistrats en fonctions, ou des officiers de justice instrumentant ou agissant légalement pour l'exécution des sentences ou mandats de justice, ou contre les depositaires ou agents de la force publique, chargés de preter main-forte a cette execution ;

(2) Abus d'autorite de la part d'un fonctionnaire public pour empecher Fexecution ;

(3) Vol de pieces judiciaires dans le me me but ;

(4) Bris de scellés apposes par l'autorité judiciaire, détournement d'objets saisis en vertu d'une ordonnance ou d'un jugement;

(5) Évasion de prisonniers detenus en vertu d'un mandat ou d'une sentence et actes qui ont directement procuré cette évasion ;

(6) Recel des prisonniers evades dans le même cas.

IX. Les crimes et delits imputés aux juges, jures et officiers de justice, quand ils seront accuses de les avoir commis dans I'exercice de leurs fonctions ou par suite d'un abus de ces fonctions, savoir ;

Outre les crimes et délits communs qui pourront leur être imputes dans ces circonstances, les crimes et delits speciaux sont :

(i) Sentence injuste rendue par faveur ou inimitié;

(2) Corruption;

(3) Non-révélation de la tentative de corruption ;

(4) Déni de justice ;

(5) Violences exercees contre les particuliers ;

(6) Violation du domicile sans les formalites legales ; (7) Exactions ;

(8) Détournement de deniers publics ;

(9) Arrestation illégale ;

(10) Faux dans les sentences et actes.

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 greffiers assermentés, les interprètes attachés au tribunal et les huissiers titulaires, mais non les personnes chargées accidentellement par délégation du tribunal d'une signification ou d'un acta d'huissier.

La dénomination de magistrats comprend les assesseurs.

II. — Dérogation au code d*instruction criminelle dans le jugement des contraventions, des crimes et délits à la charge des étrangers.

§ I. Poursuite. XI. Lorsqu'un membre du corps consulaire dénoncera un fait délictueux à la charge d'un magistrat ou d'un officier de justice, le gouvernement devra donner les ordres necessaires au ministere public, qui sera tenu de suivre sur la denonciation.

XII. Toutes les poursuites pour crimes et delits feront l'objet d'une instruction qui sera soumise à une chambre du conseil.

XIII. Le consul de l'inculpe sera sans delai avise de toute poursuite pour crime ou delit intentee contre son administre.

§ II. Instruction. XIV. L'instruction ainsi que les débats auront lieu dans celle des langues judiciaires que connaitrait l'inculpé.

XV. Toute instruction contre un étranger, ainsi que la direction des débats lors du jugement, appartiendront à un magistrat etranger, tant en matiere de simple police qu'en matiere criminelle ou correctionnelle.

XVI. Si l'inculpé d'un crime ou d'un delit n'a pas de defenseur, il lui en sera désigné un d'office au moment de l'interrogatoire, h peine de nullite.

XVII. Jusqu'a ce qu'il soit constaté qu'il existe en Egypte une installation suffisant des lieux de détention, les inculpes arretes preventivement seront livres au consul immediatement après l'interrogatoire, et dans les vingt-quatre heures de l'arrestation au plus tard, à moins que le consul n'ait autorisé la détention dans la prison du gouvernement.


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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bivalves

BIVALVES, those mollusks of the class Pelecypoda, whose coverings consist of two concave shell plates or valves.

Bivalves (for example, the clam), are entirely protected by the valves, which are connected by a hinge, consisting of a large tooth or teeth (usually three), and a ligament. In the clam both valves are alike, in the scallop the hinge margin is eared, and the shell is marked with radiating ridges, while in most bivalves there are simple lines of growth. On the interior, which is usually lined with mother-of-pearl, are either one (in oysters and scallops) or two (clams, etc.) roundish muscular impressions made by the single or the two adductor muscles by which the valves are closed. The shell is often covered by an epidermis. The hinge is situated directly over the heart, and is therefore dorsal or “hæmal.” The shell is secreted by the thickened edge of the mantle or body-walls. There is in bivalves in distinction from snails (Gastropoda) no head, and the mouth is not armed with teeth or a lingual ribbon, present in snails. The mouth is small with soft lips, and in each side is a pair of labial palpi. The short œsophagus opens into a small stomach which receives the contents of the liver. The long intestine is coiled in the visceral mass, the solid disc-like portion of the body in the clam and oyster; the intestine also

usually passes through the ventricle of the heart, and then ends opposite the upper division of the siphon. This heart is three-chambered, consisting of a ventricle and two auricles. The siphon forms the so-called head of the clam, though it is situated at the posterior end of the body; it forms a double tube, ending in an excurrent and incurrent orifice surrounded by a circle of tentacles which are sensitive to the touch. The siphon is very long in the clam (Mya) and other bivalves which burrow in the sand or mud and live in deep holes. Locomotion is effected by the so-called “foot,” which is a wedge-shaped or hatchet-shaped fleshy tongue-like mass situated at the front end under the mouth. Its hatchet-shape gives the name Pelecypoda to the class. This foot is enormous in the razor-fish, which burrows with extreme rapidity in the sand. In fixed bivalves, such as the oyster and mussel, the foot and siphon are reduced by atrophy or are entirely wanting. There being no head, there are usually no eyes, except in the scallops, where they are numerous, large and situated on the thickened edge of the mantle. Bivalves breathe by one pair, more usually two pairs, of leaf-like gills, situated on each side of the visceral mass. The individuals are usually bisexual, each being male or female. The nervous system consists of three pairs of ganglia, connected by a nerve-thread. The supraœsophagal ganglion is the so-called “brain,” being situated over the mouth; the pedal ganglion is in the centre of the foot, while the visceral ganglion is near the middle of the body. Most bivalves possess an organ of the chemical sense and an organ of hearing and of equilibration, a very minute otocyst situated in the centre of the foot, and connected by a nerve with the pedal ganglion. The ovaries are yellowish, voluminous glands forming the larger part of the visceral mass. These mollusks are very prolific, the oyster laying about 2,000,000 eggs.

In the oyster (Ostrea) or in Anomia the shell is inequilateral, one valve, usually the left and lower one, being fixed to some object, and the intestine does not pass through the ventricle; in Arca the ventricle is double. In Lucina and Corbis there is but one gill on each side, and in Pecten, Spondylus and Trigonia the gills are reduced to comb-like processes. Contrary to the habits of most bivalves, the scallop can swim and even skip out of the water by violently opening and shutting its shell. Trigonia is also capable of leaping a short distance, while Lima is an active swimmer. The foot varies much in form; in the mussel, Pinna Cyclocardia, and the pearl-oyster it is finger-shaped and grooved, with a gland for secreting a bundle of threads, the byssus, by means of which it is anchored to the bottom. The foot in the quohog Venus, is large, these mollusks being very active in their movements. In Glycimeris the fringe is toothless, much as in the oyster. In Mactra the middle tooth of the hinge is large, the corresponding cavity large and triangular. In Saxicava and Panopæa, the pallial line is represented by a row of dots. In Macoma the siphons are very long.

Lithodomus, the date-shell, one of the mussels, bores into corals, oyster shells, etc.; the common Saxicava excavates holes in mud and soft limestone, as does Gastrochæna, Pholas

and Petricola. Certain boring lamellibranchs, such as Pholas, are luminous.

A very aberrant form of bivalve mollusk is Clavagella, in which the shell is oblong, with flat valves, the left cemented,to the sides of a deep burrow. The tube is cylindrical, fringed above, and ending below in a disc, with a minute central fissure, and bordered with branching tubules. In Aspergillum, the watering-pot shell, the small bivalve shell is cemented to the lower end of a long shelly tube, closed below by a perforated disc like the nose of a watering-pot.

Bivalves, in growing, usually pass through a pre-swimming larval stage called a “trochosphere,” resembling a top, and moved by a circlet or zone of ciliæ. After a while two flaps (vela) arise on each side of the mouth, forming veliger stage; meanwhile the shells arise, and as they become larger and heavier, the young bivalve sinks to the bottom, and begins to use its “foot” for burrowing. Some bivalves, such as the fresh-water mussel Unio, go through a parasitic stage in their development.

Some bivalves arrive at maturity in a single year. The fresh-water mussels live from 10 to 12 years, while the giant clam (Tridacna gigas) probably lives from 60 years to a century.

The bivalves began to appear in the Cambrian Period; they became more frequent in the Ordovician and Silurian, but they did not abound until toward the Mesozoic Age, since the seas during the Palæozoic Age were crowded with brachipods. Oysters date from the beginning of the Mesozoic. The genus Mucula and its allies are very primitive forms, and nearly allied to the earliest known bivalves. Of about 15,000 known species of bivalves, two-thirds (10,000) are fossil.

The class Pelecypoda (or Lamellibranchiata) is divided by the gill characters (consult Parker and Haswell's ‘Zoology’) into five orders, namely: (1) Protobranchia, (2) Filibranchia, (3) Pseudo-lamellibranchia, (4) Eulamellibranchia, (5) Septibranchia; and by Dall, from the hinge-characters, into three ordinal groups: Prionodesmacea, Anomalodesmacea and Teleodesmacea. In Neumayr's group Palæoconcha, now forming a part of the Prionodesmacea, are included certain primitive types which appear to have given origin to certain more modern groups. For further information and the literature of the subject see.


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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bixby, James Thompson

BIXBY, James Thompson, American author and clergyman: b. Barre, Mass., 30 July 1843. He was graduated at Harvard University, A.B. 1864; A.M. 1867; S.T.B. 1870; Ph.D. Leipzig, Germany, 1885. Served as pastor of Unitarian churches in Watertown, Mass., 1870-74; Belfast, Me., 1875-79; Meadville, Pa., 1879-83; and Yonkers, N. Y., 1887-1903; was professor of religious philosophy in Meadville Theological School, 1879-83, and lecturer on the philosophy of religion at Lowell Institute, Boston, 1876 and 1883. He is a member of the Authors' Club and Authors' League of America. Author of ‘Religion and Science as Allies’ (1895); ‘Ethics of Evolution’ (1900); ‘The New World and the New Thought’ (1902); ‘The Open Secret’ (1912); ‘What is Bahaism?’ (1912).


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 XVIII. Le témoin qui refusera de répondre, soit au juge d'instruction, soit devant un tribunal du jugement, pourra etre condamne a la peine de remprisonnement, qui variera d'une semaine a un mois, en matière de delit, et qui pourra etre portee a trois mois en matiere de crime^ ou, en tout car, à une amende de l00 à 4,000 piastres égyptiennes.

Ces peines seront prononcées, suivant les ces, par le tribunal ou la cour.

XIX. Les seuls témoins qui pourront etre récusés sont les ascendants, les descendants et les freres et soeurs de l'inculpe ou ses allies au même degré et son conjoint même divorce, sans que l'audition des personnes ci-dessus entraine nullité, lorsque ni le ministere public, ni la partie civile, ni l'inculpe ne les aura recusees. XX. Lorsque, dans le cours d'une instruction, il y aura lieu de procéder a une visite domiciliaire, le consul de l'inculpé sera avisé.

II sera dresse proces -verbal de I'avis donne au consul. Copie de ce proces-verbal sera laissee au consulat au moment de I'interpellation.

XXI. Hors le cas de flagrant delit ou d'appel de secours de Tinterieur, I'entree du domicile pendant la nuit ne pourra avoir lieu qu'en presence du consul ou de son delegue, s'il ne l'a pas autorisee hors sa presence.

§ III. Règlement de la compétence dans les conflits de juridiction.

XXII. Trois jours avant la reunion de la chambre du conseil, la communication des pieces de Tinstruction sera faite au greffe, au consul ou à son delegue.

Il devra, sous peine de nullite, être delivre au consul expedition des pieces dont il demandera copie.

XXIII. Si, sur la communication des pièces, le consul de l'inculpé pretend que l'affaire appartient à sa juridiction et qu'elle doit être déférée à son tribunal, la question de competence, si elle est contestée par le tribunal égyptien, sera soumise a l'arbitrage d'un conseil composé de deux conseillers ou juges, désignés par le president de la cour, et de deux consuls choisis par le consul de l'inculpe.


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 XXIV. Lorsque le juge d'instruction et le consul instruiront en même temps sur le même fait, si l'un ou l'autre ne croit pas devoir se reconnâitre incompétent, le conseil des conflits devra être réuni pour régler le différend à la demande de l'un des deux.

Il est bien entendu que le conflit ne pourra jamais être soulevé par le juge d'instruction à l'occasion d'un crime ou d'un délit ordinaire; de plus, le crime ou le délit qu'il prétendra avoir été commis devra être qualifié par le réquisitoire dont il aura été saisi, conformément aux categories ci-dessus des faits attribués aux nouveaux tribunaux. Enfin, si le magistrat ou l'officier de justice offensé a porté sa plainte devant le tribunal consulaire, ce tribunal statuera sur la plainte sans qu'il y ait possibilité de conflit.

XXV. Le tribunal qui, après que les formalités ci-dessus auront été remplies, restera saisi de l'affaire, statuera sur cette affaire sans qu'il puisse y avoir lieu ultérieurement à déclaration d'incompétence.

§ IV. Débats devant la cour d'assises.

. XXVI. Devant la cour d'assises, quand les débats seront clos, et les questions à poser aux juges arrêtées, le président résumera l'affaire et les principales preuves pour ou centre l'accusé.

§ V. De l'appel et du pourvoi contre les jugements de condamnation.

XXVII. Les appels, quand ils sont permis en matière de contravention contre les jugements du tribunal de simple police, seront portés devant le tribunal correctionnel.

XXVIII. Les pourvois, dans le cas où ils sont autorisés par le Code d'instruction criminelle contre les jugements de condamnation en matière pénale, seront portés devant la cour, composée comme en matière civile.

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 § VI. Établissement de la liste des jurés et choix des assesseurs.

XXIX. La liste des jurés de nationalité étrangère sera dressée annuellement par le corps consulaire.

A cet effet, chaque consul adressera au doyen du corps consulaire la liste de ses nationaux qui remplissent, d'après lui, les conditions voulues pour être jurés. Les jurés devront avoir l'âge de trente ans et une résidence, en Égypte, d'un an au moins.

XXX. La liste définitive sera dressée par le corps consulaire sur les listes partielles en procédant par voie d'élimination, jusqu'à ce que le total des jurés atteigne et n'excède pas le nombre de deux cent cinquante.

XXXI. Chaque nationalité pourra avoir un maximum de trente jurés, pourvu que, dans ce dernier cas, la composition de la nationalité le permette.

XXXII. Les assesseurs correctionnels seront choisis par le corps consulaire sur la liste des jurés.

XXXIII. Le minimum des assesseurs sera de six, et le maximum de douze par nationalité.

XXXIV. Lorsqu'un délit correctionnel devra être jugé dans une ville où il ne se trouvera pas un nombre suffisant d'assesseurs étrangers, la cour désignera les assesseurs du tribunal voisin qui devront venir siéger.

XXXV. Les assesseurs et jurés qui ne comparaîtront pas pour remplis leurs fonctions seront condamnés par le tribunal ou la cour, suivant les cas, à une amende de 200 à 4,000 piastres égyptiennes, à moins d'excuse légitime.

§ VII. Exécution.

XXXVI. Jusqu'à ce qu'il soit constaté qu'une installation suffisante des lieux de détention existe réellement en Égypte, les condamnés à l'emprisonnement seront, si le consul le demande, détenus dans les prisons consulaires.

XXXVII. Le consul dont l'administré subira sa peine dans les établissements du gouvernement égyptien aura le droit de visiter les lieux de détention et d'en vérifier l'etat.


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 XXXVIII. En cas de condamnation à la peine capitale, Messieurs les Répresentants des Puissances auront la faculté de réclamer leur administré.

À cet effet, un délai suffisant interviendra entre le prononcé et l'exécution de la sentence pour donner aux représentants des puissances le temps de se prononcer.

TITRE III.

§ I. Disposition spéciale. XXXIX. Il sera établi près des nouveaux tribunaux un nombre suffisant d'agents choisis par les tribunaux eux-mêmes, pour pouvoir, quand il n'y aura pas peril en le demeure, assister au besoin les magistrats et les officiers de justice dans leurs fonctions.

§ II. Disposition finale.

XL. Pendant la période quinquennale, aucun changement ne devra avoir lieu dans le système adopté.

Après cette période, si l'expérience n'a pas confirmé l'utilité pratique de la réforme judiciaire, il sera loisible aux puissances, soit de revenir à l'ancien ordre de choses, soit d'aviser, d'accord avec le gouvernement égyptien, à d'autres combinaisons.

Protocoles constatant les conditions auxquelles les gouvernements français et allemand ont respectivement adhéré à la réforme judiciaire égyptienne.

10 novembre 1874. Protocole d'adhésion de la France.

5 mai 1875. Protocole d'adhésion de l'Allemagne.


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I (texte identique dans les deux p.rotocoles). Les accusations de banqueroute frauduleuse dont il s'agit d, l'article 8, alinéa G, titre II du règlement organique, continueront, comme par le passe, à être de la compétence de la juridiction de l'inculpé.

III (texte identique). Un des membres du ministère public sera cboisi dans la magistrature française (resp. : allemande), et il est expressement entendu que, si une seconde chambre était créée dans l'un des tribunaux du Caire ou de Zagazig, et si, par conséquent, le personnel du parquet venait à être augmente, un autre membre du ministère public serait également choisi parmi les magistrats français (resp. : allemands).


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V (texte identique). La réserve relative au statut personnel, omise dans l'article 9 du règlement organique sera rétablie dans le texte de ce règlement.

VI (texte identique). En ce qui touche la composition des chambres, le gouvernement français (le protocole allemand dit: quelques puissances) ayant demandé que l'un des magistrats chargés de juger une affaire européenne fût, autant que possible, de la nationalité de la partie en cause, le gouvernement égyptien s'est engagé à appeler sur ce point l'attention de la nouvelle magistrature chargée de régler seule l'organisation de son service.

Le protocole français (art. 6) dit en outre: La même réponse a été faite au gouvernement austro-hongrois, qui avait exprimé le même désir.

VII (texte identique dans la première partie). Les immunités, les priviléges, les prérogatives et les exemptions, dont les consulats étrangers et les fonctionnaires qui dépendent d'eux jouissent actuellement en vertu des usages diplomatiques et des traités en vigueur, restent maintenus dans leur intégrité: en conséquence, les consuls généraux, les consuls, les vice-consuls, leurs familles et toutes les personnes attachées à leur service ne seront pas justiciables des nouveaux tribunaux, et


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 la nouvelle législation ne sera applicable ni à leurs personnes ni à leurs maisons d'habitation.

Suite de l'art. 7. La même réserve est expressément stipulée en faveur des établissements catholiques, soit religieux, soit d'enseignement, placés sous le protectorat de la France.

Suite de l'art. 7. En outre les établissements allemands suivants: (1) l'église protestante allemande à Alexandrie, (2) l'église protestante allemande au Caire, (3) l'école allemande à Alexandrie, (4) l'école allemande au Caire, et (5) l'hôpital protestante allemand à Alexandrie, ne seront pas soumis à la compétence des nouveaux tribunaux et resteront justiciables, comme dans le passé, des tribunaux consulaires allemands. Il est bien entendu que lesdits établissements ne seront exemptés qu'en qualité de corporations et que, par conséquent, les pasteurs, les professeurs et toutes les personnes attachées à ces établissements relèveront de la juridiction établie en Égypte pour la nationalité à laquelle elles appartiennent.

En ce qui concerne la réserve stipulée à la fin de l'article 7 du protocole franco-égyptien du 10 novembre 1874, en faveur des établissements catholiques, soit religieux soit d'enseignement, placés sous le protectorat de la France, M. de Thielau déclare:

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ne reconnaissant à aucune puissance un protectorat exclusif sur les établissements catholiques en Orient, se réserve tous ses droits sur les sujets ou administrés allemands appartenant à un de ces établissements, et il considière notamment comme entendu que ladite stipulation du protocole franco-égyptien ne saurait porter atteinte à la juridiction qui est ou qui sera établie pour les sujets et administrés allemands en Égypte, en vertu des lois de l'Empire et des arrangements faits entre l'Allemagne et le gouvernement du Khédive.

S. Exe. Chérif-Pacha, au nom du gouvernement égyptien, prend acte de cette déclaration.

VIII (texte identique). Il est entendu que les nouvelles lois et la nouvelle organisation judiciaire n'auront pas d'effet retroactif, conformément au principe inscrit dans le code civil égyptien.

IX (texte identique). ''Les réclamations déjà pendantes contre le gouvernement égyptien seront soumises à une commission composée de trois magistrats de la cour d'appel, choisis d'accord par les deux gouvernements. Cette commission décidera souverainement et sans appel; elle établira elle-méme les formes de la procédure à suivre.''

X (texte identlque). Ces mêmes réclamations pouront toutefois, si les intéressés le préfèrent, être portées devant une chambre spéciale en première instance, et une autre chambre spéciale en appel, composées de magistrats appartenant, les uns aux tribueaux, les autres à la cour, et constituées conformément aux dispositions déjà convenues entre le gouvernement égyptien et


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 ''celui d'Autriche-Hongrie. Ces deux chambres, bien que jugeant d'après les règles de la procédure des nouveaux tribunaux, statueront au fond conformément aux lois et coutumes en vigueur au moment des faits qui auront motivé les réclamations.''

XI. (texte identique). Les affaires qui concernent à la fois des réclamants appartenant à plusieurs nationalités seront jugés d'après celui de ces deux modes qui sera convenu entre leurs consuls-généraux respectifs.

XII. (texte identique). Le règlement de ces affaires commencera avec l'installation des nouveaux tribunaux et continuera pendant leur fonctionnement.

Convention entre la Grande-Bretagne et l'Égypte, relative à la réforme judiciaire. Les soussignés M. Charles A. Cookson, gérant de l'agence et Consulat général de Sa Majesté Britannique et Son Excellence Chérif-Pacha, ministre de la justice de Son Altesse, le Khédive, agissant par ordre et d'après les instructions de leurs gouvernements respectifs, ayant tenu une conférence ce jour au sujet de la Réforme judiciaire en Égypte, sont convenus de ce qui suit:

Toutes et chacune des stipulations et réserves contenues dans la Convention Relative à la Réforme judiciaire qui a été conclue entre les Gouvernements français et égyptien, le 10 novembre 1874 (dont copie est ci-annexée), aussi bien que celles contenues dans la Convention conclue entre les Gouvernements allemand et éyptien le 5 mai 1875 (dont copie est pareillement ci-annexée) seront immédiatement et inconditionnellement étendues par le Gouvernement égyptien à la Grande-Bretagne et aux sujets britanniques, si à un moment quelconque le Gouvernement britannique exprimait un désir à cet effet.

En outre, le Gouvernement égyptien convient que tous les autres arrangements qu'il aurait déjà faits ou qu'il ferait à l'avenir avec toute autre puissance étrangère, soit concernant la Réforme judiciaire en Égypte, soit concernant les tribunaux


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 consulaires ou autres existants dans ce pays, seront immédiatement et inconditionnellement étendus à la Grande-Bretagne et aux sujets britanniques, si le Gouvernement britannique à un moment quelconque exprimait un désir à cet effet.

En foi de quoi les soussignés ont signé la presente Convention, et y ont apposé le sceau de leurs armes.

Fait à Alexandrie le trente-et-un juillet, mil huit cent soixante-et-quinze.

CHAS. A. COOKSON.

CHÉRIF.

Decree establishing the 'Caisse de la dette publique,' 2 May, 1879. , the Khedive of Egypt, desiring to take definitive and opportune measures for obtaining the unification of the different debts of the State and those of the Daïra Sanieh, and also desiring the reduction of the excessive charges resulting from these debts, and wishing to bear solemn testimony to our firm intention to secure every guarantee to all persons interested, have resolved to establish a special Treasury charged with the regular service of the public debt, and to appoint to its management foreign Commissioners, who at our request will be indicated by the respective Governments as fit officials to fill the post to which they will be appointed by us in the quality of Egyptian officials, and under the following conditions. Having consulted our Privy Council, we have decreed, and do hereby decree as follows:—

I. A Treasury of the Public Debt is established, charged with receiving the funds necessary for the interest and the redemption of the debt, and with applying them to this object exclusively.

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 the revenues specially devoted to the payment of the debt, are revenues to be in future charged to pay them into the Central Treasury or to keep them at the disposal of the Intendants of Public Expenditure ('Ordonnateurs des Depenses de l'État'). The Intendants of Public Expenditure are, by virtue of the present Decree, bound to pay these revenues on account of the State Treasury into the Special Treasury of the Public Debt, which will be considered in this respect as a special Treasury. These officials, treasuries, and administrations can only procure a valid discharge by means of the vouchers which will be delivered to them by the said 'Caisse' of the Public Debt. Any other order or voucher will not be valid. The same officials, treasuries, or administrations will every month send to the Minister of Finance a statement of the receipts or collections made by themselves directly or paid in by the receivers of the revenues specially assigned to the debt and the payments made into the Special Treasury of the Public Debt. The Minister of Finance will communicate these statements to the Administration of the Caisse of the Public Debt.

The Caisse of the Public Debt shall receive from the Daïra Sanieh the entire sum necessary for the interest and redemption of the amount of its unified Debt. It shall likewise receive the funds for the yearly payment due to the English Government, and representing the interest on the Suez Canal shares.

III. If the payments of the revenue assigned to the debt be insufficient to meet the half-yearly charges, the special Public Debt Department will demand from the Treasury, through the intermediary of the Minister of Finance, the sum required to complete the half-yearly payments ; the Treasury will have to deliver this sum a fortnight before the payments are due. If the funds in hand constitute a surplus over the amount necessary for the payment of the interest and the sinking fund, the special Treasury of the Public Debt will pay this surplus at the end of each year to the general Treasury of the Exchequer. The Treasury of the Public Debt will submit its accounts, which will be examined and reported upon according to law.