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"; arming Stri. ! .. . lion OWO Islllitttllit tit el • • 3 . observe, , 7 . -hod the • done to Sir William '• wr eases of wall dissimilar character, the Monarch net -,•r shun' , ' . have such laws on our books as we Ittiocked hie hat about in every direction' before following extracts :- ; . the aneients observes, Sr dreadfal The cpiestion then h Wage the most rlreartf4l, ass evil beyond which nothing increase > r t " Ue.tb Is , as one of 2eratiiit it , is wont At I.i l •ze 3ttV discretion to th i r d .,fu se dg vpr e i s riei t i n aist m : ii i r .r l : i f y il :e l f sti t ? ,: ei : j ... was, what was the cause of ilas the good fortune to know t he • i n n • • a now have." Mr. Fox had succeeded lit coming he could brim( hitu•elf to put las siguatore to 888 __ 4 . be threatened by eebte powrr.or feared from humeri cid , and other S•• •t• to per rum tte relent they 1 erer int r , • ihvough fie Lower House of Parliament an Act witersitta fur i ' s puti.s.insent. In the rawly pert of the CD t+ ire,' l e 3lied ill the Upper. for the repeal of Ilse or present reign there was a law making a distinction enmity or vengatoce. TIM terror should, therefore, be re. ils wir e r :i t i m i t i l r , f t r a o e m s a ib v l s e ri s e , tz 1 1 ,. i l i :i i i i t t l ia d d iiti t i h i e co i I I n i ts tit I yc tltr . ... roma tesert:A. , :t ciinresoin t I n i t g ora i l ,r i o ts o l g ru u mr c ies s tio . o n f titsih:edyin.itutinttlelftis. w i tl i o se l u )P i e g r i v: it il P i rei r b ti t d t e l d :li f t u . :t r •re t a i s- le I P ai r e .: l •L d : o f. ' f g73°l ° ll- YS I it:* hEla"cit'llelilloitifi.ficileludBmritkid:P'Nrykilenildalim:illiatigr:l:,":llll(VBl4ll:':ll::::t:eljidt :It'''''uti.'' trued as the last /Marl or authority, as the strongest mot . I, 5 1 • th ii'm of then sanguinary laws.d laced moatoperative of rohiltriori sanction, an p before Y out in, lii p' VI . • n He should here beg in the matisteries which a pocket had been picked ; ' ; - lease to r ea d n o extr a ct or two from speeches made and if its one foamier the offence were cw.lnf, ai the traisureof life, to guard i . h d • to d • • • '., i s ,: ei , a • s Mr. Wilherlovee and othera, aims the *eyeful °era- the f t h e murder to rubbery ; to i felt ma more I • :•:•,' •Ja Recorder explained to the King confound . o common minds the been r that if' the restored. To equal robbery ararisling degree. s..ctt. of tate }ears, wisest Sir S. Routilly lied called hand were felt in the pocket, the capital part o . . gradations of inioptity, sod incite the commission or a ' ti bend that th ` 1 •••• attention of the Houn of CoMmons to this offence was dour away. It wns surely quite ridt. greater crime ro prevent the detection of a less. If only e tar it cause of the ilicrnise of I um' been highly gratified at'llie reOsiliiiiona t0..1.- the iii i ly h i -e ) v e e . I t p le r e il tr . e that iie htalillealksorejetrormorthirtniiwg.has L eu ti t ie st a l s e t a t. r t. ; .!! 1 . :e1 -•'.--'- oohiert. On Isis Bill for the better Pre - ventioit of culous to see such wee distitiction* in offences of murder were punished with desalt, very few rubber's amid crime . !1 . , * the , ii,,cyci ali ny a ininiettateot._ , i blis'ie.l there. * Gentlemen. would Jo well to par , 1 • . t o - .„, • h•;... • .icre Kos A I Vt•,. to these plugs, they would convince them iros o•seating oi It Dwelling-house, a Bleachittg-yawl, the same dams, mill to observe the indifferent! with slam their Lands in blood; , . but u m ber., a by the last jt of As clue I . ...rinsits . g 1 .1 s aw s C i s r 4 t: i i 4 e ' i l s u e s t o l now y o ii e calledeu l f s a t L r_ ' • l u i : i i r p: I t tea c I i :. 1 f: ' gr . e . atly infector their coati liouaes of conliiietnna • ,In Mr. Mk s Witherforre spoke as follows :- shall re we i : r bid c' theca ur y i T e va e l s i t i e w i d lu h is i n t p: t r u l o e p t m o u r es t ti c t on of puisishment to crime w as ' ! were. He In Rotterdam exlii,. 1 .. ;j e t ': which tospital punishments were 'wooded. Lord e mi ra y el be iy, o ti b o t.i. a u c e w d, d u s po ng a tr w i , s hi s i nc p u e r i r api s e • "I an anattni• again in atoll Inyerlf or as onplonnay Utensil* had taken an table view of the Criminal forbear ?iI Iu empress my "ipprobatims of the Rill now before the Code, tool pointedly Ottani the is'elfieic! of ill "ii may be anted, that the sentence is often mitigated to i reform. It biting the utmost marks of m i se r y and : wretched. . i , proposed the ti s a u t u ti". t h , t not less tha n o ti o iiold e. him that . d be s f e o e re t h e a l ' r t. ebi:nn at orl eion.e. anti ul . the pd..: I t peered from the stetement of robbery ; but surely this is to cunfewi that oar laws i • the Meinber wh o ! ness ;he inquired the cause from the keep- r, who 1.. II --PA' 'lam which the sogt::estiil iiu- those capstal punishments which did not at once , imi ,i, t wosome-am are foutole4. The lair, in its present state, Sal ike the poblic mind with awe, and accord with are unreasonable in our own opinion ; and indeed it mayßonaparte it was is t and 1 latiatni lie osecated :-Ilie cousetioetwe ap- he observed, that all bat derers . have, at . their . hint i o clench. He wished to serak with all al i e t il rere * t!c th e ffelices of vermin a . hades of ;guilt and degrees of ; tar • HOC so; that there had hero foods awl a ;;unit !..- } wars to one to be allwtoss:.by holding out the chimer of the. gelieral feeling of their on easily. Lord George hour, the common sensations of snauksitd pleadang is Shale enOrlllity, Mere indiscriminately punt o -hr r •• 1 1, s p y l - a st e e e nt hiti ol: i n b l e a e n t a i ge n i r e g e i t e o c , tei h i :it iu t i l d is e t y i e t r i y h t it hi t t, i 4 me in th i e t • • h e latponitc.onih I. W ooe d to yield h ., imp , stio , soil ear . Grenville had truly observed, that- ." both of our laws and of the mode of their execu:. suffered to go to decay and inns. Ho . e. - .0 6. 'i101l now apprehended, notwitlistauding, that I conclude, be . pardon foe h Pfr °4 l •lo rooter. itself in _quilt. 1 *member having many at sou "If we mutt to dessh before we reach Ike higher crimes, " All laws against wieltedoess are hieffectaal, mks, mom - f tai ' lea, • forocined bY Mr. higher &like, t h at, Gut of thirty- different decrees of guilt must be subjeeted to the some will inform, mud some will prosecute; hot till we mitigate' deterred from , Il i:: t v h a e ri e o m us at i i i i i i s . t: lo n i c i es r , ratite: I much i.t of R e t s h o e l i u f t 4 i t e l i:n7e ;.ere then re l7 bie lk i r h g e ; o:.e . . ' jo t to - sic ' couvitti.on i uotosem. shut on 'aeration upon Si. punishment, and crows of ilitrerert enormity couromeded the penalties for mere violations of properly , inf o gootioo Sion ; but he • shm le look place. VIM a thee be doaliseil slim offenders to g ether :-this cannot he Mine with impunity in • email", will a l wa y s be h a t e d, sn it prosecution dreaded. Th e heart l bo ed ti t i e o i n t e he a t n i 11 , ,0 • .1, Wit c deviate n o o n tiiraiutiability of escape? Do we not distinguished for its love of justice :--fly enacting the same o f a goo d ma, t bat recoil at the thought of punish- and the - miclolay too Mat, i iit At moat am irdons sad the Matt de. mere putioshmnit for iiNelices which itiffiv in moral tarp'. Me a slight injury with death; especially when he renew- Partiality in the execution of laws ' chic~ crim i '. I te. • le , ' }to side Steil' *Mon or gambling , the lottery, mesa sill hole, It • execution of the law is boohoo', mid, if there 10 b erg th a t the thief seem hare procured nfety by amtber onus a cto. ",..••ee, after which-. - Id Daher to by deprecaterl-it vowproductive' • .: adelitture a the -risk ref all that is dear to thee in Ike so y eutillexiOu between sound justice and true policy, it M ae ' , from which be was restrained only by his remaking o - - • o, site I el 1 e tees addressid - eTrt s t '.. .......e ..-61.4 tie ' - ' *OW f 1 so. therctiorr, that this Hoene will apprii...e ut* will contione to be hindered until your laws are adapted le v i rtu e worst effects. It but vet lately hat:petted, tine two ' anti, tin ler c' '' a d '=; ' . ircuni otoseet..l: -o,• 'hat,. •64 eithe pro . lima. which ocronowort the adoption of the sentiments of humanity said justice which it has been T he men having beets committed fur the crime ••I far- 1 worthy Gentleman then alluded to the great raisiiient, cosnoelled to, ' ' ~. ref . la. /ie- e • ' toil; . •!i L • ' la Mewl tSt . ed in perfereore to a law that is at. the succvssibl labour of ages to newest, in the natios."-r ery and one huvin Ito g p ded guilty, the other ottljed 4 fro slot Ail i t k• , mem j,. . 1 ,. eV ,r e e a --Simatli poor staiwte-boOk." rifest, etrite.) and benevolent exertions of Mrs. Fry, whose merit ff -• 'moor particulars • •.-. • On itiallther • Isu this disting uished !Senator Lord Suffolk had given a memorable instance of wasubove a l l . praise He had had the honour of him a hen-hearted rased!, as, if lie had not dfnitio, ; Fri, od wiot bad p alie I. ..,Ilaint •. .' 04' 4 . es . they would both have beets arraigned on the ,11,stor ! w••• t:ot 'II sine,' I,We ^ Oh • l el cenversing with her on the subject of her valuable -to so . fir a toe t io rs i s e . ,...l. . ,• had stated. that • -,...,....... i .., Re Inn r, abot• great awl lammited publie law when his property had been plundered. The obeetution in the peeress of here philanthropic ...des had understitedie I g or a t : I yr '' di ~ • au , • (MY. fiTtrar A early eirriael 4 his hi., had in. following - la b our.. She koil -- a dewed that the uncertainty of • s now swelled we* truly ridiculous. All wise re. a higher re. es •• h ; '''• ' •• a 4. is an extract from his speech in the Noon •,, , e caucurr theasiaty . . e i tat d' + ..,..". of ,„ - aired, and supposed to be ac uainted wi•l. t aeons but ' v• ea hafts . ilsorst made of the abuts. of oar Crime.. al r • • univhment seemed every where to have the must t e r i q he . the was set to ei ti Jr I * I s' • '.l -.' a lM'-- ~.vikh a new at lesseotag, is a great degree , the slum. o Lords on that occasion ;it was during a diocese Piteasetee ~... -, ,' e . ar C iuinal Law; yet, lie asked, could any, eveo ;try- • injurious effe ct. -/ Hew.)-He mis not the advo- *stggeatsd by Inns ar t o t io If reeptiourel -• • 16. oi . dot of no#l4lll punishments ohm!, it contained. ;ad the vb. new on one of Sir Samuel Rotailly's Bills, sad is for ,&amour! two read and recollect the cote making prisons comfortable--on the con- . s se niuOilite. of. His worthy yriessli to •. t ' f. very th j h : i'. . • Junin* tosoritch it was impessible to cocaine. to as 1 . 1.1101 as :- notes nal enactments on the Statute Bo )- ' oh. tong, he meant to make them the seat of whole- Pe uk . /pv i ily, that any inesomiti ' . ftm e ' 411 e - :e'... Ile watild sow t la ss t hl "lt haeprawl to me, my Lords. shout roar or Ave years so , - . Some of them were disgraceful to a civilizedl aught - •• some to 'th e e my home to gown Arabs purpose of going some discipline. He wished that punishment of . ~ a,. . to he attemplet - • - 'Ail . • • •a mane; OA • . le. the esZi• Ordinary list of crie winds the records wet the votary. An old sad tankful 'screw was left In every kind were well directed aed certain. sod then tson. • Fliers was a law, yet wire pealed, visitiog : but lie also :aid. that 4 `-'' "' .. ~ • , 1 . s to •.- • - i' •. - (.Courts formatted. The I are of it rill my return. In about four or eve days 1 came with t h e of death any person guilty of i 'lons had ir::eu guirpotly . mercy should seldom interpose, except on the clear- cii ~ ,• • WItiOTIUO4III increase of cri. to toms again, and fused, to toy iorpriae, that ay servant a eat anti most justifiable expediency. It was high! aiding or assisting a hobgoblin. But they should I desirable for • tinny years, ! ' ke ev •ah e ,K el ~r t h e olps t. i l bad fled during my absence, earryieg tree with her a coal- .y no .,Pi t for et one ;rind awl cause of the iticrea oof I him. Sir S. ke II . . • • - as, -• • -en. ate and other property. Now, m y important to mark the conduct of late Juries . in g 1 I t 1 . ...ant...3, 331 . 4te o; by IC; ' 'IL L T, . .i' " 3 Ng awarded to tern respec- di,e,rritdlsile there of plate . . • •. 4 "'''S -' •-•".....„ •t• i, N i'..- • . . . were maw, causes winch operated with one to a case sometime ago in Wales, where a forgery had iThis woman. Bke was been ahstaist fruits prusecahaz intfortunate - clearly proved, the Jury refused to admit the day. e crime. He believed that the great licentiutistiess attention, but ma tin: first ii4itat•iiii • - . of modern times had produced WWII o*the ' of by I I te l. hint , .latllig COlPMilt•ii l else Jaen °. - .. • . i , ' i „ •,,,'•OW kW he Middlesex- aged, mod the mine of nature had already marked her by yi dthe Neither was it to he idity of the evidence, as they were not allowedsuppressed, that the were unoninaousil of o p i u m wilt it. A '. • 'r , a tabs " e - ' . 7 lAN la tbe yeas ISII i VA•' • ' ••• .. e • ~ ji...1,707 . IMO 2 1105 • many ii.firmitii s for a speedy but natural dissolution-she " 118 had twin the dupe of a designing villain, who instigated her to t it b the ry y test which they were in the habit of m • too great laxity en executing the existing laws by the period. he bad housell oak . 'tor., ..iiii of,. s - • - 'au • 4 ....MO -MT 2 estle to the theft-BSe was friendless, and she was poor. My oging in cases of murder and robbery. Eves, as he dErietmeYs and deputing others to see punishments two Lew Officers of tint C , 'eh , - u. , teee.{ 7 • t , • , 1,411 i . : -, - .. .... -.. b •• • ion Mftddloort winwi-.. Lords, public drily pointed out the course 1 ought to take. had already inflicted on the convicted, had contribeted to ili s- them aod wi . ' said, Judges interpused to prevent the roo • - 'll 1 " rhtr.heit - innir 'be s.stramtnit ~. '' to es • neer+ Ise bNs yme MR 139 1 knew I might immediately to go before a Magistrate, who severe operation of the law; aid in ill CM where a nigh the feeling of solemnity and awe that ought karst had told lees 1p wag of -the •t•. • • * • . '..4 ' 'ae- °SOO. ' 7 ' tilt i i lahi i ie " --- ' ' --' i! 'boy was tried b e fore V' abbe, Sir teary 1 for stealing nod ..tiorui itiot ~.. • -1 " -taw .. 1 •a•V 1817 2O S iis a court of justice, as the prosecutor against her, and hove ~ . . . - •tt. i. -ss i w- ..r. w .:. y -- 'fa PI Odell- I imbittered my own life by the . consciousness of having u‘' l ii money its a shop, that Learued and humane ed uilt. He believed that negligence •soil lie ohoiild .. cdursg g .• ~ world . . • .xamotse that po si ti on ea lee .. . . ee, . . , „ ta t ... •• 7 e.••••: It tee year lam It shortened hers. My Lords, Instuantio triumphed over jus. Judge told the Jury that they might examine the lightness in . dispensing the punishmen . t decreed ' 1 lir or:vv.-est code that -se stir aceueimed Millb • AIM . t • , .•. • , ..•••.47,n . WA rig lice and public duly. I was constrained to Well loose upon money, end if any of it were not, in their opinion, - that € against minor offences pirticulaily, had fret - tacitly 4 0. !het°, who puoished eveu idiots with dePtfor • . Will • • - • ,• . • *4 '-, ••" 1 11 !SIT le the l iohlic nit individual certainly deserving o f punishment, good legal coin, they might see and make a deduc- confirmed the juvenile delinquetat in hit vicious The ivoithy friend* tiess abed and examtued 4 •• . 4 tin • • . - heesine the law of the laud gave me D° orisortooill of Tint- tion to reduce the practices, and deprived society of the benefit which !utile of Solon atta L . s e . and dice* of _Ai. mt.& Mal Is tbs different gaols incapital pert of the charge. It• ‘cri , 11 ' . i.: e. a • .- ta e .. - • net .--.--- le the sear IVO Tale Mg her with • castigation' sheet of death." It was time to consider what were the best nuns w in . was, fact, the common custom of Juries to make the law for themselves • la cases of this description, would result from his reformation • a mistakentvrehre telt • •,• . Its • . Ifrome.i limey dark for. dm. sense of humanity also to early °fleecier* was too i meting mid diritiin •. • . .-' .l 4 1 - * it i =calor' the 11444 • r • ~• 1 .t.,....-...„-•, le • It ISIS II Olll o f preventieg crime. There were in society t h ree ' wFor • lostattee, what was more common than to see often the source of delinquency and the nurse of !of An lattolselth (le ' 1. •-• • ''' lie sttologea...ithi,f?-. , . c ..• . id ' • 7,1 ler 1 ••• • - 13 0 32 great principlea which connoted human actions-o Juries, isi cases where beak notes were lost to a sou . crime; but. above all, the multitude of offender* ' ill the time of A•, -- 4 • . aim ite.t extent sat I fir' these were, Religion. Moral Feelings, and Low : side bl re e amount to find a perdict of la 'lcy or in this great city was mainly originating from, which the Jostinie • e • 'hesf. -44 fee : 06 7 11 . 1 , 7 1 ix ideOrde oelle 4 b "r a ll ' i a g e when they united " , their controling power was ir- stealing to t h e ai d; .. of 39a. ? it t , two recent -ul e i eess and attributable to, the great number of abandoned , referree to ili;,tie • • e -. .. 0 1 - 14;eale in e c li o ne tr y ~..so rt a t .. . 7 - ..•,$ , iota Nita tho year 1817 359 revialible. There . was no law . against incest, nor of Bacon and Hobbs, and a t--p Bradley such women allowed to range through in streets. In this .W. Junes.-bus ~ MI :•1 1 ' "to • `order .by . 4 I eel - et: - • las ed. there any criniusel law against adultery. What, was the fact. He would 'he be ' send ell g let t h e and other respects he had often had otcasion to Mr.W. LW/Alto., oho s it i i kt t ipt (16 invik * e l e t ow 1191 ' • -*art eattild ' • est regret how much of then. ants the best way of pieventing crime? He o p inion o e p re rmete, es * p rone set ae of admire. the exercise efetemanity, while he could ! Ilk Coill I i . rlsted to the ! a te of Engla n d. . . , V. •• It. • , I laelieretl all would odiutt-the carmen of entail. not but believe that eta imi rile' send • titith ' ' • •, ; 1 c "mod h , Imitated respecti io, J udgment. a i 11 r, J ach, replied. that al it NO 4430,3 • 111 WIN •ti '... or I. 41 est -•or t k ge tio n... ; me t ..„, meet. This a was the °tertian of the greatest philo- of Nevrgate fur a considerable period. It was a s little necessary severity iii the case, might have I ti.at the English Code was the eimill - • ;-; . 4 1C t NI • ' • .' kg '. • ' ii L.: • yof siode a ut brokers soohero-of Plato. of Cicero, Beccaria, Montes- y ellows:- sowed the "cedars!' reformation, and secured a return I world, it Valli coni 'dna to hro to ..' - '''lOr c'%ore , ' ' I sg , •• I '. '' • •"1 . Mispraetice on such . tpreu. Culquhouti, and other eminent men. who 44 m yopiatee eit essay at ao , es b e of to the patina virtue. And had our prisons beam cedes sod shew that they ws..e --As - i '• SI .. P lt. * ' -1:491 rr ' "-. -.' ;folemorry.-/Yeaw,) had turned their attention to this subeeet. The oar. little aarrko su hat pnermie ll =l.mmt made an occasion and mewled moral discipline and 'fle a ISAVattite. that 'ao rtal -en...Mit . ..1 , t 111 • . for a coed , 4 t h e i tido)/ of ponishristost was do. great terror of the 1 her Usti ft. An rows. .ipdvo- improvement to their unhappy inmates? Troth mut eaegutmy mit the einlimol world." ' ' l ' k . • hpso.lreas sot lit. v ie at a . • y , t h ose b y I othoider ; tint how was it appiteel, for instaoce, in viewed them ~ Wu I. theft; whams I 'Yeasty obliged him to say, soot. It win sawdesiabli. stmt I. Mr. Jactia coatintte , ruse • • h* ' -1111i,1t.. ..., ••1 i eases of flu try. wed in Ile selection for those who • curved to tip coarse of ~...1 11 :1 1°- when a criminul bad been convicted Of a capit a l nitissemit -••••••ereo tee - esseemee rest • el< 1 • e l • • ---direeee eerr e eha e . , • . . . , •• 2 nannai r were o le of offense than either of 1 att Int ea that were to be allowed to plead to the minor offence ?„„ like l y te b e eismired int : mo o - 6l° 'as / Yon offpnee, and escaped death, lie • should ben cur 1• t toceeelasplieinyosmil torsiag i either or Slut . In all criminal cases one should think that wish. ertt, thine I havilidtamindei Mesa pelted as long as lie remaitied in prison • . Code contrived pu- P vete malserdialy ammisos, I 1 . thaf pr ette crimes, fin of white, Mt. thews stoodeap to lorder. Tht . . meut ought to be the rule. and pardon the romp. low decidedly clams that s b z=e asamgoe es, theism areark. both to benefit roomy and himsd ; utter for goofiest; ceietuee so largely. Me - . vie mos on .i Poi A n hint 1! • • • itts ii• toot reign. Of these the , a Aker .. ball; here pinion sea the rule, and pueishment . at__ emelt_ ts . roatt'ell•ood ei otitheifer peahhmear but so far was this from being generally t,:c NV, JACI(.. propeeti. d. --Tits law as e f o rsoest • ern - - - -le o .. • . re NNW Ong, was awarded to is the exception.- /Hear. heor.)-Ile recollected two "e" Eaee : tiaaa weer no anti, either for pooisblog vrissi. case. that our prisons were scene* of idletoss• ceived themes:o4 of ihe Divrety.; w . .S. • • • they ..., he' - .• k • u- " awe whielioccurred a few years age in Suffolk, and vice, and it was the licentiousness prevail • to be told, becalms Sir S. Rattier laid sod so, asat,. • dissimilar nature, from id- aids or , intimidating others from the perpetratioa Grerhaes;ten ea-• ' .'" fie . • which strikingly illustrated the dissimilar applies . b i t if they mast be inflicted, they Amid be speedily done, tog therein that led to ninny of the Maui - dui ! the law of England cite , thud all in cr . e be , the 1 . OM* . : - Aiwa ist the consooratively , - - , 4 1 •of Ilthffing to the value of ss. in a ' tem of punishment for o ff ences of the same class. after sentenre is passed. Solitary comliaement , by might, that infested society. Ile saw some Gentlemen - ,I i teemed Member tbeu meow) Mow.* sod fi. '' SUN •-' , ." , 1' *4 .su bj ec t it was a n 1 One man was tried before Judge Buller for steal- and labour, by day, are the Q* l l P* ol . l **** lB of which cri- the room who had spent much of their time in ii- I Icy, the latter of whom hii4lit down,. ift coots . . bred gu ruler that the Mats are in dread." - ' e Seetetary of Suite, Lord Sidteouth, should ingyoultry. anti that Learned Judge, not thinking ill siting and tenmissing foreign prisons, and Wilot were Dot in any countryepeatshed u proportiosi to to t . ~_ • ; e aside the prosecutor.hed always a •remedy- tliat,offetice of a very serious nature, merely semi. The Court would recollect the sympathy felt for warmly praised the excellence of the di s cipline ob- their guilt, 110 f ought nut, but ith proponent wester It re • traced the culprit to a few months' imprisonment. the poor female who WWI some months ago executed served in them, a din:tither, he regretted to say, difficulty of iletecooti mod nrevelition. Thaeheie, • e oviu it «oe in his poweeto soitifsate the se- fortj e e unit y•of the int, by 'debug &na the va- The man had an accomplice in his guilt, who was in for forgery. The sympathy was not so much occu r that did not fiud place in ours. The worthy Alder- li o n of the puoishnient of death did amen ;flea the . mie • '. ' • • • P tee lost property at a reduced -am. That the act of hiding to conceal himself from being sr- simied by the severity of the punishment, as by the man opposite (Alderman Wood) lied minute', tie coustniesion of censer, us was appartest 6: :pie tat- that the wordy. for the Prosectstee, who eras rested ; but on finding his companion get off so well, undefined nature of the selection for punishment, 'peeled the Matson de Force. at Ghent, end rpnee emple-of limit s, for tnuiders were at up t 0 a tiffit4svetle the erAolv truth. and nothing he surrendered, no doubt, expecting only the same and the uncertainty of its application. This poor in the highest terms of its admirable matiagetneat quest Ain't Si, Petersburgh. 'Die gr ' 1 ~ i burl e truth , to ear that what worth to hi sort of punishment. But Judge Gould. who went woman had reason to expect, from her conduct in and regulations - the arran g ement and classilicatim. was, to mien what sort of unialtmeitt we h Circuit, that she would have received a mitigation • the next and who was a very humane man, Prlsont of the prier:merle From the circumstances of the He happened to associate with litany µrev. ~ ;. K to 4 9.01. was oily or the value or 394.-(Hear.)-Wat ! . e• I • 4 Tt possible that such a coattail could be serinosly re- h ad, however, quite a differeet notion of the offence ° , f the sentence of the law. Dr. Lettsom had in • times, many persons occupied our prisour far from met , and he knew that tte; e ere tied d by . a e roe connotetaltel from graie authority ? He (Mr. F.) lof stealing poultry, which he thought was the source at" Lthe. bud published , spawn the • b:1 1.. , rwn lneettca ItY the last stage of kuilt-taultitudes, comparative's parly reeling. mid ettatited to teines at they ist., :.• the of reform . mg teeniest*, without resorting . to the se- n u 1 1 11 the priseus where employmert hurt fir had rise I, lieet respect for the laws, and the Jusl-ies s of eerie' other colones lg nod he sentenced the fellow*mem, were emit in there after the connuissioti, :et . to u " - , .. , ot• the Criminal Code . He had himselfl ill' s f . : . e who ail • terra them ; brit it Wan every day evi- I who hod surrendered to seven or fourteen years verity . ree or for attempting to commit very trifling offences_ introduced,•licentseusnus bed been . epreiswl. ' a .I'.. ' hai l tretisportation. Lord Bacon hatl forcibly remark. , formed two Ingliwaymen. There was seemaekable How did we treat such persons? we received theca tut:educe a system .. 4 satorro eta pritents esti be .!- deism, dent that the Judges were obliged to interpose and : ed upon the necessity of fixing a more certain stan- ei mice of r ef ormation carried into effect by the but just affected, at it might be said-we mot theta attaining a trent object. a i d' '3C ton . ahritak frone carrying into execution the teratences I e• which the law lm ,Hard . It was impossible to look . dard of punishment-of giving full force to the 30 R ev. 1 Rowland Hill. He had had a servant for out completelytainted, andutterly depraved. Mr. TAYLOR it ilea Mealier) tai - 1, he creed ; elltf s n Its s importauce pass by ' He i, „. period was quite . untuipeac a e. But Mr. Hill, rs-vii.,ors of some of them which relate d to capital repealing it in other cases. whew it merelytry possessed more, there was still a deficiency-- without begging to ho indulged with a few °bins of a ii •'o i mauled a dead letter. 'l'he worthy Gentleman after this long period had elapsed, declared for the venom. The Member weo bad eat doca (Mr. alive 11 0 ea •nlirneitte He had had the assistam•e, di los seis of the aubject, of such men as Mr. Mnotague, I here alluded to the letter written by a man who had first time that his acquaintatic . e with this servant there was no place where unfortunate men mid women, anxious to r e turn to the habits of industry Jacks) hart entered into a 10.11 dread of ;Ile crud- petty 4 , 1)r. Lushistgtosi, Mr. Foster, Mr. Blieton , mid n I been a desperate highwayman. and belonged to had commenced upwards of thirty years before, by and honesty, might go and ask for work, or where nee In the codes of bothtsriols eoneue; but "I. wets I co:lei • gang who infested the iteighbourbood of Phi.. the man stopping him on the highway and taking t h ey by Christian', mud he cures tioi see tied their emfgate I . Learned Gs in that Court, who said lie had 1 a might even seclude t h emse lv es , acid prove, to fly 1 111 ii b who was his purse. Mr. Hill coin 'lied with the re. the as of would he any just liontion of cruelty is le rend thr,tagh all the statutet. If the Court were 1 •"' re' '4* brit taken, and his reform away , - the 4 nware (.1* what these statutes rontained, they would I worked by being kept to hard labour. This men, en quisition. and then remonstrated with the man, who out to procure employment front any charitably der- this country. Toe stroegeat arematnt err the te- Maui lie astanislied at the length of their duration on the ! h is liberatin g , *rote to the Manegers of the Re- replied, he had no means of obtaining an hottest posed and more fortunate members of society. It visa) of the Criminal Lew woe, abut thoittextfdle et the c besets. What would the Common Conne,lntoo ' fin motory I oat: :. I: tints, tit desire them to persist in living. Mr. Hill said he would give him the means muses vain to etideeyour to elude or parry the - ogee. Christian feeliug, in varioas tissue-ter. Merteted ...00 . 4 ", It it if he called upon bin-the man did so, Mr. Hillite being put in force.-e 1 leer.)- 4,:i:eireiatcL.: thilik teen they were informed that no mail tinder : their plait. lie said tint the reittitlity of ColialC- deration o f this questioir ; they would be compelled 1 'el" 0 91 .en - the rook of no Alderman could -sear fir o it 1 4; , lllna brio;; followed liy such a rotation of Arita- took him into his service, himand for the kmg period to rare • it openly, and argue it on broad grumpier. awry. ruil a emiviction of the too seveile • 1 • `fr y t qw,, %dhow. incurring a certain penalo• -(.1 : •••.n , temperance. tied Ishour, would have a power- he had mentioned , found a ' II h°Dett " rd rsithfil It wes peculiarly recumbent on them to do ee ; they iof Pella! Statutes, Preemie" ask Pro'o7l;°. l I ut 14 , tragh.)--There was also a law for the risco:foie- ! - i 1.1. effect in preventing burglaries and roliberiesoo servant. He would now conclude With movidg ard- should recollect the words of a great naval officer- 1 . •Plolir - "Ite"to to leen Xri€ lllll € 'he t'er i - • nit „t of the woollen manufacture of the contort'. ; an.: that for his own part, desperate as lie had once " ties of Reso lutions, w ° ll v id ldel li- k lm ' aff irlillbtr es England ex a every man to du his duty."- l Is ley' Juke ea find them . guilty. of tit :long 01) . l is welch decreed that coats should not be too scantily been, he should trouisle them DO s nore.... ( /Intr.,- Ilhems shoutA they be adopted. I Petition to Pas- lee sincerely believed that if t h ey d i d t h e i r duty, l arnot,nt •Itse they retell/ hiel-atel Judger t' . ~ . !iterate ,• ?• ' cot. He hoped he *beak' not by this decloraliou 'He (Mr. F. was glad to hear that a regimen of liament for a revision of the Criminal Code. He the Legidoture would be folly disposed to assist ! reel theta ta be isseicted ou the, ie., Orinea ~. ,•'i, - ': - 'VI be se unt.wtooate as to urge a prosecution a:elitist I this keel was deed to be adopted at *Glltspur. Presumed the Lord Chaneellor himself Could bet them in the great work . But the firm step,- as lie ' fee es'. his, much bell r would it thic Jr ' 'l' . t , . • f • tee set of geottlemeni:nownhy the name of Dandies, ' street Comptes.. if the principle were true, that object to the present motion-for he mid ea a conceived, towards ameildmeitt, was airexact exe- I should :ensue in the Les eneesetves? :et4 l 1 , ' 1 • for wicketile iiisi teatitily sot wearing a broad coe- i the terror of severe pnitisleneel. rather than its car. former ocearion. that i nstea d of going into peed. I tat* teaati; they could not be rereeede it • . e y them of thefunctions COnStgla . to t here cation b tl • ed followed itnpuaity to oPeerittere, nod its oremiery ' . atittitional ' Asp to their coisla•--/II a fillettimi o f i tainty, operated, why wit make it more intiver- cuter Committees for particular laws, why 1140 at bythe t saw, They slimed make punssieneut err - tie del ;1 I s r . leis kiwi it was impossible to establish hi- cat* o - ,ii- . Out rulerriug to itelividuul insinisces-those which !se ! had quoted were not singular in their absurdity, I much property 1 The reinon, he thought, owl I n c would protest against Isis statements being &are • Islet by gettosal reusenitig. There was else a law I . . setitencing a soldier to death for askito• sluts in hi. I • : , • ... 't . uniform. The remelt of this i I • • • r, enactment, * us, that ! i in the feudal times the Caron required the servo•e : of Inc cowls in •.11 his quarrels its the field. and . whets the.e were nv-r lie et...signed him back uguiti • silly applicable-why not extend it to that pact's once have a Committee for the revision of the whole f a i n : of swindling by which !movie were defrauds of an Criminal Code. Here, said Mr. Favell, is en op- ens portutiity for bringing the Lear evident: because tee Legislature knew that h p plus in the test-and he trusted the o Learned Lord's princi- prusecutious would be iustituted when the punish- would not new be lost of obtaining in Farlistnent a 'Dent was made to bear no proportion to the chat•ac- trr of the utlence. full consideration of this importiont subject. The Titers tt la a rtinarkuble in. *malty Gentletnais concluded by moving a series or . suausce related lay Mr. pitrrcov, la his T rav els j o Reoollition.-( F or w ra c k .(!frice, where Ilie I:siig of a tithe' ahtili4sed the use . to the ;Ami t e,. If the v.ts‘ul refused to resume his ! ell ne" 0 " to"!.""g N , . th.it Its . hel we udnettisement.) i n i ts laminas wheietier it Vona reistenced. It should r'''ays be ititlicted under this eye of the Ma. gistrees themselves, and weer left to inferior I PlmetonitY caeca. Such a delicate trust should never be as- signed to a deputy . He bad hilliSelf Keen how care. fully thin was attended to in other coma ' . rte.. It , hod often heen his lot to witness public altitapiegt 1 111 I. ii I I, litre no NI g tree made Isi ist,p; .or- I • consequence-a multiplicution of eritile. . ' i 7 0 r. not sue it by the prtialte provided by law shoci out Om its sill cities be ' riled on the gull y, nor AY a a tZi a „ few 'weenier ewe - airs oc i ly, out of the gyre num 4,47 I of oar is.lera, should seethe sniveller ofoni Statute l Book. Ile believed that so disistolsortionste eat i puiesliment to guilt of :i y sal' inch cnmivalr t Ito! yer l y dark hue, One sundred retinitied elf. Dtxott rope, its point of order, to submit once; bet in Holland he had had eeishr lt,11 301) .. I unpunished-so that our system of Criminal Law of the torture sis pariiriihir canes, and alleged, as th!lt N 1... Favell had in his . Resolutions departed stratioit that- the most respectable Mooistrat d levet) it had no from the tenor of lain notice. He should hale con- Burghers did not consider it beneath , • ea all 311(111 to siipur., ! operated all a bait and tempt:eine to e ff ete', there i being ninety-nine chances to one of escapiog, tae Tilts letoettl Mr. 'llhe le e ilonsei Tin- . Jortousls • occupation, sod *Alit alms in his uniform, h e e ms , I tit; te in preventing the come s to winch it was so. fiord blink-If in a Petition to Porliument for a re- intend oto ancir•octssiono. Ile b'lin'd 11 ••• sear I Pita' puteshment altogether lust the effect of fere- becene• le.ble to the punishiteet of death. The ! Phrd• The leelleteol persons about the King re- triqion of the Criminal leivr, and not !munched out 1 1"' " '. l • the t It mg it cot off mid aeal 'Ph t . I • that pass t et arinieeneg by wily , f ; tna auti out uti nippy r now come to h • Ivor , hy Ceictleinsii thee untitled (0 elenti.thle or_ 1 moustrated ugainat this dimioution of punishment, into the motives of Jeers. remedy could not booster he deferred ; lie cuss „ ot ' out of the •, • world. lipoid punishments, iii ooe in . t h e „ a fences, awl Itie circumstances under which they 1 end prognosticated thin the e'l'ect would be an in- Mt. FAVELL denied that he had travelled Mit of enthusiastic, but he should, sit least, lanitotle din. 1 yew of the question, incleaseil untie, b y the 'to' t a sk s i sa, „first had oriesseeed. lie than adverted U. the difficishire ' crease of 'elute. The Kifg determined to resist his notice. He had merely iii his Rent ' • (Moos put charge his own duty. fie should bum t y. 6 si % . deitcy to brusalsse the Itemiser the 'wrote. mei re" The-1 , .i ire %- 1 Uodet which they had often placed she Executive I their opinia: e, oust try the expesitanit: lie did so- forth matters, of record, which we fur • • that ' •re necessary tug, a fair, (enlace...e o ns tr i a l a l . t e e „iy etit . e ; der them liiniliar wit!. exhibitiotot of enmity.-- fa sonde Patter. George the Second was renintkahle for it sticeeeded-end a decrease of crime was the re- his argument. et fing I C l'ae closrgerl„ and a certain posushuteiti following co o . I They area made calloue end 0111 r or bills, elitflii•g his hat about the roAttt when any thi n g ; !Olt. Dr. Joho.-on li:ol wiliness ably on this sub- Nlr. Witaaens rose to second the motion for re- vivito'', would • , o much further towards the shockine spectocles that so frequeroly UlN' 11 . 1 led iI: 114 4 , replan-' earl . ;* thalq; . c i pot loot in a passive -rod on o. : Levesion, when I ret ' h'' I' :INC "It" , .. e ht to be seed by every permit ccivitig the Beselutious. He raid It could out be i n stets amine, mid reformation of public mends, than a s• tar town. lie remeinUatd iti e t • • I ' i 4 01111 hi .