imed, ah! I thought the wolves used to devour the heretics, but now
I see the heretics eat the wolves. This expression being reported to M.
Marolles, the Roman catholic commander in chief at Lucerne, he sent a
very severe and threatening letter to the cyndic, who was so terrified,
that the fright threw him into a fever, and he died in a few days.

This great battle was fought just before the harvest was got in, when
the papists, exasperated at their disgrace, and resolved on any kind of
revenge, spread themselves by night in detached parties over the finest
corn-fields of the protestants, and set them on fire in sundry places.
Some of these straggling parties, however, suffered for their conduct;
for the protestants, being alarmed in the night by the blazing of the
fire among the corn, pursued the fugitives early in the morning, and
overtaking many, put them to death. The protestant captain Bellin,
likewise, by way of retaliation, went with a body of light troops, and
burnt the suburbs of La Torre, making his retreat afterward with very
little loss.

A few days after, captain Bellin, with a much stronger body of troops,
attacked the town of La Torre itself, and making a breach in the wall of
the convent, his men entered, driving the garrison into the citadel, and
burning both town and convent. After having effected this, they made a
regular retreat, as they could not reduce the citadel for want of
cannon.

_An Account of the Persecutions of Michael de Molinos, a Native of
Spain._

Michael de Molinos, a Spaniard of a rich and honourable family, entered,
when young, into priest's orders, but would not accept of any preferment
in the church. He possessed great natural abilities, which he dedicated
to the service of his fellow-creatures, without any view of emolument to
himself. His course of life was pious and uniform; nor did he exercise
those austerities which are common among the religious orders of the
church of Rome.

Being of a contemplative turn of mind, he pursued the track of the
mystical divines, and having acquired great reputation in Spain, and
being desirous of propagating his sublime mode of devotion, he left his
own country, and settled at Rome. Here he soon connected himself with
some of the most distinguished among the literati, who so approved of
his religious maxims, that they concurred in assisting him to propagate
them; and, in a short time, he obtained a great number of followers,
who, from th