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• . • ..e . • 41 116 '•- i ' 1111 h , _ • \. , ...' ' ..s- 2, \ I \Ar ..4j . _r___ •l f L ,s ...- ...1.. olliCAllt Ili,"*. f .- • tODISe' 44 1/ 11.7.4. . • 0 " 2. 0 17 N°. 13,792. TUESDAY EVENV , MAY 24, 1831. PRICE 711. PUNIMMENT OP DEATH. . not only of sheddin g th e bl oo d , b ut per h aka d estroy i ng t h e sou l —or.-- feikw creatures. AprillB3l..—Tbe following memorable speech was delivered in the t the wretches who die are not the only snlfesers ; there House of Columns. in 1777. The elteratkete sin" me" in the law* more and greater objects of companion still ; I mean have, upon the whole, done mischief rather than geed, inasmuch as ; . 4 surviving relations, and frkndv. Who knows bow many the) have led dur public to be li eve that our criminal code bee bent laiweat chtifiren we may be dooming to ignominy and wvakchelness ? Who know.; Itow many wiinws• hearts we may break mule conformable with the civilizatios of the present day, although . nothing can be a greater delusion. The number of persons "menet" wij grief, how many grey hairs of parents we may bring with sorrow to death in Ragland and Wales, da da. the last seven years, is 8,751. to the grs%e ? The number executed, 407. ink Mosaic law tidlained, that fora sheep or an ox. four and grel A brief extract of this speech ma y have .. 4 0,„ r —. r .1. appeared in the firkil should be restored ; and fur robhin e a b onne - double _ th.t la ....r.. _• 7 '""711 4 . - 4PW' ' . 4r. d , "A f g "r: - •,..•• :II 4 I ► Mb sr7^- ~• • of t. it Iles ehmy oldie lives digs fellow- ad mends of rotten boroughs. gyiMtt abbot lawyer, and at the it If Ida day,eonsidered Ow potting Hasse to the amount of forty &B- lount, with the most atrocious acts of lefended on any principle of pulicY. in a hill to repeal the Act &those- dwelling-house (of course without a secondary punishment. Ile twice masons, and it eras twice dirawn uut Ortunately, have been always much innovadons of severity upon our icious lenity and temperate jostle,. ed this bill and others w ameliorate g alteration of a few pounds, but by 'planed by the present Lnrd Chan. a well u by other distinguished men iy Lords Grey and Holland in the elect because of the important sta. of ministry. Yet it is nodes • mi- Premier, and Lord Brougham the ir and a man convicted of stealing Flouts. are ordered to suffer death. forward with petitions to the throne menus of these unhappy men, and o the days of their power, will not, Save recourse to the old sanguinary t, they so elomtently condemned.— THE CASE OF A LITERARY LADY OF NOBLE BIRTH. SHE is Seventy Years of Age, and nearly deprived of Sight. Although a nadae of this country, her whole life having been spent on the Continent, she Is without friends. the was the coua• psalm of the Princess Lamballe at the very moment that she fella martyr to the fury of the Parisian mob, and even received a wound in her arm in the struggle which ensued on that fearful occasion. She afterwards moved for many years in the first Continental circles, as the wife of a Venedan Nobleman. The vicissitudes in the Italian States, incident to the French Revolution, deprived her husband of fortune ; and time and distress deprived her soon after of a husband. Friendless abroad, she came to this country, in hopes to gain assistance, until she recovered property due to her husband by a Foreign Government. In this she has hitherto been unsuccessful, and she has supported her. alf for some time by her Literary Ezertloos. This last resource, from physical affliction, now fails her, and she is driven to state her case to :hose who have the means, and may have the generosity, to contribute to her roller. To many of the Aristocracy in this country her misfile.. tutees are known ; and it is hoped if this should meet their eye, that they will kindly themselves in her favour. The author this ease can be ascertained, by applying to Mr. Merry, Bookseller, Great Titchfield.street ; Mr. Tucker, Surgeon and Aceoucheur, No. 16„ ennent elm poendo only ! Ili i inseadtke Solon wadi ham hese all if be were half a, ammees as Left ef the old wells and Tb 6 hie hesinled 'ease dnie the meet home Bier the crhnneneelleg is the duellboAvamie Vila a levd, bpoiet et punielammi. owl Wed, net le be defended amok, or mend udos, ther. and le mob j elooMft a res breakin or dime) the - set eta, tarried this bill the ROMP of Commons, in the Home it Lomb, - whe t anfortunc inns., ready to eve their opium to lone Criminal Law than is theie of julcious When Sir Samed Retail, introduced arealpetl laws, net a Wekstaing changed he was supported allot and Sir Jaime as in the House at Cannimms, and by L House of Lords, whose names we select duns which they hid in the present min t Merry of width Lied Grey is the Premier, Lad Chanesilm, that a sheep.stealer, and 'Date articles of eases ip a dwelling-house.. We hope that the pale will come forward with poibleis is the to pray for a esmnstsdon of the senteeess of them Wan" men, that the dissiplisa of Itamilly, now is the digs it their power, will upon reflection, Wok It right to have reason M the oil sanguinary system, which, whim in opposition, they so iblusatly emeisoned. Herald. qf rearday. Howland-street, Plumy-square ; be Cook, No. 19, Brook -street. Grosvenor-square ; Mr. Tomkiason, Pianoforte-maker, Dean-street, Soho; and Mr. Lewis, Surgeon, Montague-street, Manchester-square —where Subscription will be thankfully received; and at the Odlie of this Paper, and the Names of the Subscribers will be regularly published. Editor of the Sras . . . Mr. Hoist .. . sheep - restored; and fur robbing a house, double , that is, one Mkt for reparation, the rest for example; and the forfeiture was greater, as the property was more exposed. If the thief came by night, it ' lawful to kill him; but If he cams by day, he was only to make's Unit ; and if he had nothing, he was to be sold for his theft. is all that Hon required be felonies, nor can I find in history any of such lawn as oars, except a cods that was fr amed by .ljleaoo. He made every capital, upon th is modem wing ; " Trait petty attics deserved death, and be knew not ing worse for the greatest: His laws, it is said, were written, sot 1 with ilk, but with blood ; but they were of short duradoo, being all O trs repealed by Solon, except one, far Unaller. An attempt was made some years ago by my honourable Mend, Sir Charles Bunbury, to repeal some of the most absurd and cruel of our capital laws. Thu bill passed this house, but was rejected by the lords, for this reason ; " I t was an innovation, th e y s a id, an d subver sion of law." The very reverse is truth. These hanging laws are themselves innovations. No less than three and thirty of them passed 1 during the last reign. I believe, I myself was the first person who checked the pregress of them. When the great Alfred Mlle to the throne, he found the kingdom over-run with robbers; but the silly ex. petlient of hanging never came into his head : he instituted a police, which was, to snake every township answerable for the felonies com mitted in it. Thus property became the guardian of property ; and all robbery was so effectually stopped, that (the historians tell us) ins very short time a man might travel through the kingdom unarmed, with his purse in his band. Treason, murder, rape, and burnin‘ a dwelling house, were all the crimes that were liable to be p u ni s h e d w i t h d eat h b y our good old cons. moo law. And such was the tenderness, such the reluctance to shed blood, that if team:pence could possibly be made, life was ma to be lonehed. Treason being against the King, the remission of the crime um in the crown. in case of mender itself, if tom meld bo lode the next of kin might dischar ge t h e t which, Wino disebirged, could not be revived. if ravisher could make the Injured 1 gonna satisfaction, the law had no power over him ; she might marry the man under the gallows, it she pleased, and take him ken the jaws ler death to the lips of mat rimony. But so fatally are we deviated from lie benignity of our ancient laws, that there is now under sequence death an unfortunate clergyman, who made satisfaction he the injury he anon ted I the satisfaction was accepted; and yet the acceptance elate n, and the prosecution, bear the same date. There due not occur to my thoughts a proposition more Abilene* from 1111,111 M and from reason, than that in a matter of property, whin restitution is made, blood should still be required. But, in regad to our whole system of criminal law, and much mote to our habits of thinking and reasoning upon it, there is a sentence of the great Roman orator, which I wish those who hear me to remark.—Exhorting the senate to put a stop to executions, he says, " Nolite, Quintal, haste servidam %%ohm petit quo DOD 1110i10 tot elves atrochaime sustulit, bed humanitateta ipsam niemit consuetudine inoommo. dotum.' We glory la resuming this most righteous course. Decided friends to suffering humanity, and inveterate enemies to pats of this nature, so diametrically omaite to the read principles of our holy religion, a e shall from time to time consider it to be our meet imperious and bounden duty to raise our voice, and brig into view such remarks as pass undereye, which have been advanced by those who are labouring to abolish a system of cruelty, which must ever reflect the deepest stain on our laws, and most loudly is our government called upon in all that it is engaged in the march of " reform" to tear up by the very roots this most cruel and sanguinary code. To forward, then, our views, an enlightened traveller ha' justly observed that— " Greatly is it to be lamented that the system of capital punish. ment should prevail in Britain. I say it is to be most deeply to be regretted that so many human beings should be sacrificed yearly, and that solitary confinement has not been adopted as a certain punishment. and in some eases to continue during life, and extended to every crime except that of deliberate murder ; there being a most positive authority of Goo by which the blood of him is required who shall shed that ...f another.' —(Genesis 9-6.) The beneficial effects arising from the adoption of this plan must le abundantly obvious to every reflecting mind, since not only would tho live% of our fellow creatures be spared, and the prisoner compelled to make some reparation to society by his manual labour, but then IA cony reason to suppose that those who were thus confined, would h.f reclaimed from evil habits and repeat of their Past misconduct, tur I may observe, callous, and altogether insensible, must b: that man who thus forced to meditate on his errors and their consequent misery, should still determine to persevere In ascot. Again, in occupation the prisoner would find relief, and thus would be form habits of industry, while he might, at the same time, be encouraged to do ro by having it in his power to abridge the period of his confinement by good conduct, and patient application to his em ployinent. Now what I would just ask is to be gained by that sys tem which is at present practised. which either turns the culprit conipleoly loose on society, hardened perhaps and mote vicious than when he entered the walls of a prieon, or, alas! cuts him of at once in this stage of existence, totally unprep ared for another; and that too for crime" for which no punishment can possibly be justi fied for one moment on the word of (Ion? Past experience ha. power hay demonstrated that notwithstanding the very numerous examples of capital punishments, crime itself has not decreased; on the eery contrary, the mind has rather become farnillariset to such execution", that they make no longer that impression they were intended to produce. In the name then of the most High, in that of justice, humanity, &dads:shy, and most sound policy, would I loudly call on the present enlightened government of my country to step forward, and abolish this disgraceful and most sanguinary breach of our criminal code. and ?obstinate solitary confinement with hard labour. This leads me to emery, that, to most, imprisonment during the re maintla of their days, would appear a living protracted depth, and ' prove Whitely male dreadful than making an iseeettelens esu en the scaffold ; where it .so, only frequently happens that the culprit excites ornpmliy rather than eversion, and scents, in the eyes of the multitude. amino is the character of a martyr than a inakfactor. I need not also mention how 1111.61 It is to be cmplored that the crime of forgery should Se punished by loss of life s and here there is room to enter into a wide field of oii►gniaiti n. Let me conclude by just pointing to that most admirable system of pu• alahment adopted in the Netherlands,panicularly in the prison of Übe tot. which must entail everlasting honour a. to. government. I timed it minutey, anti pronounce it as altogelier unribulled, overwhelmed with astonishment at the methodical order and regtalarity preserved whir.. are sonic nurdred primmer', well red, clothed, attend prayers inumin.: and eVeni"/..; on Sundays sermons are punched to them, and they are also on other days laboriously occupied. from which the State as well as themselves, Jetty.. 3 mcuoiary benefit. Most gratifying was ft to hear the salutary Influence of thole treasures adopted, many instance. indeed King related of the thurom.:i reformation of criminals. De toddy .11 , I say, that, it is to be wished fir by every philanthropist, any true patriot. a similar system was established in the United King. dom, as the only mode, Iu my apprehension, which is most powerfully calculated to repress crime, and as consulting at once both prudence and Lun.anity. As we pray for mercy, let us show mercy; and also keep iu view that— " No ceremony that to the great belong, Nor the King's sword, nun the deputed sword, The Marshal's truncheon, nor the Judge's right, Becomes them with out-half so good it grace As mercy does." Rae Wilson's Travels is Norway, Steedels, Denmark, 4c. ..41 0 0 .. 2 0 0 ... ... 1 10 0 •• .. i 0 o .. ... 1 0 0 I a. V. J. in. R. G. 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I.aggesrirgb miid honourable hided (Mr. Canada) that no greater crime em be mmeitted than the wflfil main ties UP Merchant ship, *bids may _endanger not oWly lives and peopenies, Mann:tic Witty. . I should think this crime, eve ail others, it to be punialied with death, if 1 could suppose the inflicdon of death at all useful lu the prevention of crimes. But in subjects of this nature, we an to consider, not what the Lodi vidual is, DM what he nay have done we are to could's only what is right for public example and private safety. Whether banging ever did, or can, answer any good purpose, I doubt: but the cruel exhibition of every execution day is a proof that hanging carries no terror with it. And I am confident that every new sanguinary law operates as an encouragement to annuli' capital of fences ; for it is not the mode, but the certainty of punishment, that creates tenor. What men know they must endure, they fear ; what they think they can escape, they despise. The multiplicity of our hanging laws has produced two things—frequency of matinatiou and frequent pardons. As hope is the first and greatest spring of action, if it nesse, that se , out of 20 convicts one only was to be pardoned , the thief would say, t. Why nay not I be that one ?" But since, as our laws are actually administered, not one in twenty is executed, the thief acts en the chance of twenty to one in his favour, he acts on a fair and reason able presumption of indemnity ; and I verily believe, that the confident hope of indemnity is the cause of nineteen in twenty robberies that are committed. But if we look to the executions themselves, what maniple do they give ? The thief dies either hardened or pedant. We are nut to cone alder such reflections as occur to reasonable and good men, but such impressions as are made on the thoughtless, the desperate, and the wicked. These men look on the hardened villain with envy and ad miration. All that admiration and contempt of death with which he roes and martyrs inspire good meu in a good cause, the abandoned vil lain feels in seeing a desperado Ilia himself meet death with intre pidity. The penitent thief, on the other band, often makes the sober villain think in this way ; himself oppressed with poverty and want, he sees a man die with that penitence which promises pardon for his sins here and happiness hereafter; straight be thinks, that by robbery, forgery, or murder, he can relieve all his wants ; and if he be brought to justice the punishment will be indeed short and trifling, awl the reward eternal. Even in crimes which are seldom or never pardoneA, death Is no pre vention. Housebreakers, forgers, and coiner', are sure to be hanged ; yet housebreaking, forgery, and coining, ere the very crimes which are oftencst committed. Strange it is, that in the case of blood, of which we ought to be most tender, we should still go on, against reason and against experience, to make unavailing slaughter of our fellow crea tures. A recent event has proved that policy will do what blood cannot do—l mean the late regulation of the coinage. Thirty years together men were coutinitally hanged fur coining; still it went our but on the new regulation of the gold coin, it ceased. This event proves these two things : the efficacy of police, and the inefficacy of hanging.. But, is it not very extraordinary, that since the regulation of the gold coin, an act has passed making it treason to coin silver ? But bas it stopped the coining of . eilver ? On the contrary, do you not hear of it more then ever? It seems as if the law and the erhne bore the same date. I do not know what the honourablelnember thinks who brought in the hill; but perhaps some feelings may come across his mind whets he sees how many lives he is taking away for no purpose. Haul it bee., fairly stated, and specifically pointed out, what the mischief in casing silver in the utmost extent is, that hanging bill might not have been su readily adopted ; under the name of treason it found an easy pas. sage. I, indeed, have always understood treason to be nothing lees than some act or conspiracy against the life or honour of the Ring, and the safety of the State; but what the King or State can suffer by my taking now and then a bad sixpence, or a bed shilling, 1 cannot imagine. By this nickname of treason, however, there lies at this moment its Newgate, under sentence to be burnt alive, a girl just turned of four teen; at her master's bidding, she bid some white-washed ferthings behind her stays, on which the jury found her guilty as an accomplice with her master in the treason. The master was !teasel last Wednes day ; and the faggots all lay ready—no reprieve came I al just as' the cart was setting out, and the girl would have been burnt alive on the same to had it not been for the Immune but casual interference of Lord weymouth. ! Sir, are we taught to execrate the fires of tnnithfiekl,and are we lighting them now to burn a poor harm less child for hiding a whitewashed farthing. And yet this barbarous sentence, which ought to make men shudder at the thought of shedding blood for such trivial causes, is brought as a reason for mote hanging and burning. It was reenutnernled to me not many days ago, to Iniog in a bill to make it treason to coin copper, as well as gold and silver. Yet, in the format on of these sanguinary laws, humanity, religion, and policy, are thrown out of the question. This one wise argument Is al ways sufficient ; if you hang for one fault, why not for another? If for stealing a sheep, why not fora cow or a hone ? If for a twilling, why not hoe a handkerchief that is worth eighteen-pence ? autl so on. We therefore ought to oppose the increase of that new laws; the more, because every fresh one begets twenty others. When a utetuber of parliament brings in a new hanging law, he be gins with mentioning some injury that may be done to private property, for which a man is not yet liable to be hanged ; and then proposes the gallows as the specific and infallible mews of cure and prevention. But the bill, in progress of time, mades crimes capital, that scarce de. ' serve whipping. For instance, the shoplifting act was to prevent , bankers, and silversmiths' and oilier shops, where there ate commonly goods of great value, frum being robbed; but it goes so far as ne Make' it death to lift any thing Wl' a counter with intent to steal. Under this act, one Mary Jones was executed, whose ewe I AA just mention; it was at the time when press-warrants were 11.1111114 • the alarm about Falkland Islands. The woman's buthand waelweemd, their goods seised for some debt of his, and she, with two mai ihL dren, turned into the streets a-begging. 'Tim a circumstance sit le be I forgotten, that she was very young (under nineteen) and lOW merk. ably handsome. bite went to a linen-draper's shop, took sense Muse linen off the counter, and slipped it under her deal ; shopman saw her, and she laid it down : for this she was banged. Her defence was (I have the trial in my pocket) that she lad lived in credit and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang cattle and stole her husband from her; but since then, she bad no bed to lie on ; nothing to give her children to eat; and hey were almost naked ; and perhaps she might have done something wrung, tar she hardly knew what the did :" The parish officers testified the truth of this set ry ; but it seems, there had been • good deal of shoplifting about Ludgate: an example was thought necessary; saw this woman was !tensed for the cnnifert and satisfaction of some shopkeepen is Led eate-etreet. When brought to receive sentence, she behaved in such a frantic manner, as preyed her mind to be in a distracted and des/Dom:ins .t..te ; and the child was sucking at her breast when she act out fir Tyburu (gallows.) Let us reflect a little on this woutatt's fate. The poet says, " An hunt mast's the net lest work of Uwe " He might nave said, whh equal truth, that a beauteous woman's the noblest work of Gun. But fur what cause was OOD'S creation robber' of this its noblest work ? It was fur no injury, but fur a mere attempt to clothe two naked children by unlawful means. Compare this with what the finite did, and what the law did. The State bereaved the woman of her hus band, and the children of a father, who was all their support; the law deprived the woman of her lit:, and the children of their remaining parent, exposing them to real danger, insult, and merciless treatment, that destitute and helpless orphans suffer. Take all the circumstances together, I do not believe that • fouler murder was ever committed against law, than the murder of this woman by law. Some who hear me are perhaps blueing the judges, the jury, the hangman ; but neither judge, jury, nor hangman, is to blame • they are ministered agents ; the true hangman i s t h e member of podia: sant ; he who frames the bloody law, is mainsails foe the blood that is shed trader it. But there is a further oposhlyeadeo Dying as these unhappy wretches often do, who knows why/Atha bum let may be !—lPerbaps, my honourable friend who moves this Trig, has not yet considered himself in the light of an executioner; se awn has more humanity, no man a stronger sense of religion than himself. and I verily believe that at this moment, he wishes as little success to his hanging law as I do. His nature must recoil at making himself the Having said so much on the general principles of our aiminal laws, I have only a short stottl or two to add, on the two propositions now before us ; one, as moved by the houourable gentleman (Dlr. Combe) —to hang persons that wilfully met fi re t o s hi ps ; t h e ot h er, moved as an amendment by my honourable friend (Sir Charles Sunbury),—to compel such offenders to work seven years on the Thames. The question arises from the alarming events o the late ACC/ a!' POTtii/0.161 and Bristol I for which the Incendiary is put to death.— But, will an act of parliament prevent sods men as John the Painter from coming tutu the world, or control diem when they are in it You might as well bring in a bill to prevent the appearance, or regu late tie motions, of a comet. Join: the Pait.tcr was so far from fearing dead), ti.s. he courted ie ; was so far fwu& concealing his att, that he told full as much as was nue, to his own eon vlction. When once n villain turns enthusiast, he is above all law. Punishment is ids reward, and death his glory. But, though this law will he useless against villain, it is dattgerotot, and may be fatal to many innocent persona. There is not an honest industrious car. perdu oe sailor. who may not be endangered in the course of his daily labour; they are constantly using fire and combustible matter about shipping, tarring, and pitching, and caulking t accidents are eon tinually happetfing ; and who knows how many of these accidents may he attributed to design II 'The act, inked, says, the firing must be dune Wilfully atal maliciously : but judges and juries do not always distinguish right between the fact and the intention. It Is the province of a jury only to try the fact by the intention ; but they are too apt to judge of the intention by the f a ct. J ust i ces o f the peace, however, are not famed for Dectit•ate and nice distinctions, and all the honors of an ignominious death would be too much to threaten every honest ship weight with, for what may happen in the necessary work of their calling. Btu, as I think ponisbment necessary for so heinous an offence, and, as the end of all punish: um: is example ; of the two modes of punish ment, I shall prefer drat which Is most profitable in point of example. Allowing then, the punishment of death hs utmost force, it is only short and momentary ; that of labour, permanent; and so much MOM example is gained in him who is reserved for labour, than in him who Is put to death, as there are hours in the lira of the one, beyond the short moment of the other's death. Our readers are aware, from the publication of the Recorder's report to the Ring in Council, that two men, named George Widgett and John Broach, are selected, from among the number of persons capitally coneletsl at the Old Bailey Sessions In April lase. to suffer the ex treme sentence of the law. There wets le person who received ger.- teuce of daub at that sessions; and we presume the two CUM in which the Royal mercy does not interpose between the unhappy aimbsals and the externiinattog severity of the law are the two wont eases in the calendar othvr eriee the selection must have b ee n made either In a spirit of parti ality or aivice. Now, what are really those caws in which it is thought nothing will satisfy be ends of jostles but the shedding the blood of the offenders P One is a case of sheep-stealing--a crime against property, which undoubtedly deserves to be seventy _punished, but *high is not, under any chew:nuances. an offence which justifies the twilit* of human life. Recollecting, as we do, the opinions which the leading members of the present ministry entertained of capital pu nishments when out of dike, we were not prepared to expect that they would have advised the King t o w i t hb o kl a prerogative of mercy fr o m any of those Inferior olkies• which a visolietive and barbarous system of legislation made capital, and which, alth they con. l stitute serious violations of the rights of property ough , are not accompanied by any of those circumstances of atrocity yr terror which distinguish violent and sanguinary crimes.— There are persons who assume the name and pretend to the intelli gence of legislators, who, whenever it is proposed to abolish any of our sanguinary laws, express their alarm at the dangers o. innovation upon the ancient and established system of Engliso crituinal jurie prudence. This is an alarm which betrays u much ignorance as it does obduracy of feeling. Moat of our statue are them selves only Innovations on the sadist law leghad. Bow hog Is it since the Legislature called in the asisasse of the wasetlener to pa down the offence of sheep-steeliaglo It le fay since the 14th yawl, George H. that capital putdaseist hes hew iallimed its the aloe; and we believe it will be head the, netwilledillging th_ examples that have front doe to thee been WPM Ml' bile had no effect in diminhidft the ainetat dsgeeduien la this way— bot, indeed, is it to be wsred at; for, as fa the aced every Tab. don of the law, where the penalty exceeds the ohm; human cad oes. scientiuns people would rather bar with the Way than proamette.— Many offenders escape with Impunity ; while dine who oosedenally fall a sacrifice to the rigour artist law excite the lempauden of the pub , lie, whose natural sense of equity Is teo strong he the astildel mots. limy of the law, and who sine their dassatien el the abash their sym pathy for the offender who unjustly seam hutted cite seensure of his guilt. Ne man dies the death of the aside le for sbeepasaling in Franca, p even in finals. Is such *Gray less seam I. those Foreign Countries, or is human lOW mate need I.— As to the of f ence of John Bieseh—thot of wading lathe d property shove the value of /v. posies—sadit whet law en lre s e l :e! tented to suffer ? Under the statute of he Ids mad Oh Oak I 7 sae el hip .Robert Peel's Asa fir the ,madam and unelleathe et ihe Orlahal Law. Parka* the sea emeaney to sestiati=osi or the pries of Wave ph, wee hely rs is t them Peel, In his allihnieg aid arapreharive Whw ate slas i l sb ;ftdsa, WOW to the troolle mpiallig lbe MOW stet en Ms of the 11th of Anne, and daddli staying a new ational la pm, which /shed the tines et hems Rh by the PAGANINL Paganini was born at Genoa, in the month of February, 1784. His lather was a small trailer, a great calculator of beery chances, by which be expected w become affluent, cad also made preten sions to musical talent. He ratly discovered the natural bent of his son's genius, and gave him the hest instruction he received ; but he appears to have been an unfeeling parent, and though young Pagunini was an enthusiast in his art, the hard-hearted father frequently goaded him to an apylication beyond his strength, by dint of an empty stoma& His hopes of musical eminence were woour by his mitlises creaming that a genius had smeared to her given an annares of his becoming a great violin player. In his istit year, he played upon the stags at Genoa, for the bank of hlandiesi. having fee IMO time before been a constant performer in the churches. His father ems after took him to Parma, to place hint under the care of the I:debated compaser Rolla. They found him sick In bed ; his violin, and the latest ecotone he had com posal, lay on a table in the anteroom into which they were shown._ Paganies fathet pm him a wink, in as inseam the violin was in his hand, and ita ge gr am ot the concerto at sighs. Aft hart his W ools is the and delight, and whin be was coovinced that the am& hi is were produced by she boy before bins, be said to the baba; a Thin is nothing left he are to toads him, he Heavee's sake take hies to Pier." Pace was at that time Dhow of the Con servatory of Moak at Parma, and resolved h 4 ray 1111100_,, and Photd him undue theare of UM leader of the Chapel NW. when be was fourteen 1* bier took him through the Mid* Was of Italy, in all of which is giesasassess, by which ha easelig Pais usa, and his talker samallisedie awns of mousy. At ea Imo•et Ilt. Harass, at Um, ha main his debut as a solo player, and time 11.11 with ;h el pm ee t aggiame I from that me he esselOod man. It tp ate d hem the Sista in which his helm Witold Ishm,hil soon ow minced travelling as an independent pedalos& Hama diessivel fir a nes. His Wm. Joshua on having the whole, and dower& es kill him if he missed. lie pre him the warms part, and dam hisither's death, mobs pis ago, supports his lestlne. His bassi malaise to m a ma alas ailbasstihis breast and sigma* and died hid is sob mit to than opseisas he relief, and Ihr a tinn his hit op was In danger, but by takhig rest all danger lam maid imeanyiisl was r of mercer , boo great, that lio cas_pay swar=isas with. out having same before him. NVlen his shall be at an end, v. is ids design to write as opera, "la wh he shall impart a musical seam to hie fillowhannono. " whit& Val say young eau to become Wl•Sidy e rtfliOner diem yams Mooed of ten. He lief trig the slimy his men an one et bin Moeda, wbo, in three days, ow oat with so canyhts a In Ids style, as to excite ladaseribils ancalisaint. P egniel, the ilia of all the incense Wired to hint, ippon fns Sam sag t. “ I fre quently play (he says so as hi mkt inawass asdisassa, but to satisfy my ." ' Papnial miss odium whom it is and if be cannot prise is alisat-6e aeon assansa. pm to; a time confounded in rumour with a distinvailld en the violin, who had joined a bead of assassins, sad bolo ispyasnoil he itaargi n cars. The calumny. however, was woo own account*/ his pahasional appears that they amounted to 7,1781. but this is fir exceeded, is pm. portion to the time, by his late receipts at Paris, which are 'wird to amount to tl,OOOl.