The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-17 00:00:00

COUNTY ASSI zr.s.

The County criminal business terminated on
Friday, when Baron Smith tor tttttt unced sentence
upon thirty-two persons, a great majority id whom
bud been convicted of sheep-stealing. IVith not
'e than one or two except they are►euted a
t miserable and squalid appearance, and we can
ever with truth, having listened to the circumstance►
of et•ery case, that the must bitter distress, and
in litany lust/users, total destitution, was the great
incentive to the commission of the offence.

We do nut memo to 'loge tyro slut cause in
justification of the crime; but it it here a proper
opportunity to say, that it is ill wain to expect any
other state of society, while the ioretture of want
is 60 great as it evidently it on the lower orders of
the people; and the statute hoook, we repeat, will
be referred to in vain, the deoutocoatioot of the
law pronounced without effect, and property, oh. d
even life, lorogres,ively grow more internee, if the
condition of toe people be toot, in tome degree, umr-
litoruted. In pasting sentence of //coris on hale of
these miterable brink, yesterday, Huron Smith
said; that that moutual and I.'llllllll duty (Otto's%d
upon him in cooosequeolee of the prevalence of
crime in jbis mid the nighbowing counties, mod
',remote t* Grand Juicy load declined to exerfo,
the powers granted by the statute. of ',retaining
them as fit objects of clemency. It is hoped, loot-
e'er, they will experience is merciful interpo,ttoott.
The cote of the first-stained ',ems tie the h•t, is
one in which the Crown osiotecuted, and very pro-
perly; but Mitre were circumploinces •ttendit g it
which resider it of some Conseilueoce, patticblorly
as it drew forth from the Baron tsterday, lit !cu.*.
Mg widener; of death, a few toueol and woeful Ado-
pervations on the summer of adminipteting the law%
ao ssssss g the class of persons to which the unfortu-
nate 10:01 104000, old the too free lire of their
itrispq Will ch the. outlay are permitted to txerePw, in
annoy rates where ti Pc are celled upoti to aid the
civil iron NM/Sher/I arri.olcr.)

Ever ready, throogh the chaonel or our Gaper, to
give itahtilv to 111,tittmoons where the welhate
of mankind is ic.itenctril, it it with pleastge tre can
our It, a PubliraTiiin it importance Hill shortly mike
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trio, hiave toren ad .t 1.31, awl iitehn;.B huplep•rly treated. by
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rod Numbly Molotov, until twelve o'clock. Letter., witt-
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