The National Register.
London, England, 1821-11-19 00:00:00

365

Another Report of the Recorder of London has
been made to his Majesty, and erg* offenders
against the laws of their country have been ordered
to expiate their crimes by DEATH, on Wednesdiky
next ! Of these, four are for uttering forgeriet.of
those slovenly notes, which, to the disgrace of Eng-
land, have for so many years been allowed to court
their easy imitation—and the other four are for steal-
ing—and is there then in the ingenuity of man no
power to discover a punishment which might, at all
events, leave yet a possibilily of reformation—
" Unfit to live, they are not fit to die," yet arethey
doomed to be " sent to their account—no reckoning
made—with all their imperfections on their heads...
We have the Divine authority for visiting murder
with death, but we have also the Divine prohibition
against punishing with death any other crime, and
however terrific may be a criminal information e -
(Ai°, at the suit of the Attorney General, we hesi-
tate not to say, boldly, that the human law, which
is positively opposed to our Holy Bible, is Lid, evzn
though it be inscribed in the boasted Statute Book
of the United Kingdom. The party who has per-
haps been ruined by forgery, or he who has been
severely injured by the gross violence of the
robber, will exclaim against our feelings of hu-
manity—will, we would ask either the one
or the other, the hanging the culprit procure
the restoration of your property, or apply an
efficacious balsam to your wounds? Certainly not ;
and if it would, where is the man who ,would pur-
chase such ialemnity at the price of the offender's
blood? As to the effect of example, it really is a
theme on which old women only will enlarge, while
it is upon record that a convict has picked the pocket
of a turnkey while he was receiving the Bement* of
death, and that while that awful sentence *as
klt
progress to execution, even at the foot of the gallows,.
his heretofore-companions have availed themselves

of the bustle caused by his execution to carry 03
their depredations—that a radical change is wan
in our criminal code, no one with the feelings of
Christianity will deny, and Heaven will bless that
man who has power to accomplish such a change.—
Those not possessed of such power can only with us
ejaculate a prayer for those who- :hall effect what
we so fervently wish for.

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The Euryalus frigate, Capt. Ilford, is fititng at
Portsmouth for the Mediterranean station.

The public defaulter, said to be minus 40,0001,
has been traced to a ship bound for America, three
days after she sailed, and that a fast sailing cutter
was immediately dispatched in chase of the vessel.--
If the amount of the sums lost to the coutstry, thr-
the last twenty years, by defaulters, was published,
it would astonish the countr w o perceive how much,
it has been pillaged, even during that period.
Skocking Accident —As the civic procession with tits
address to his Majesty WAS turning round the corner of
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King.stree., the horse on which Nlr. %Vomiter, the City
:Marshal. was mounted. took fright, reared, and 'brew
loin. Nlr. Wouttier retained the bridle in his tia,i
vs hen the at plunged forward at hint as he lay,
fell dowp upon hint. The AIIIIIIIAI rolled i•ver hint, and
plunged in a frightful manner not to Its described, ant
which parented any one from rendering assistance.—
%Viten it rose, he plunged again at Wontner as he lay,
tieing probably ag:tated at tile sight of his sc net uni-
form. Lint few of those who witiwssed the scene c,.n-
ceived uut the Marshall was still alive. He Was inii,:e-
diately carried il.ro a shop. and front Ounce co ,veye,l
to his house in Aidgan-, where Sir W. lihzaril promp.ly
arrketl. One of his legs was troken in two places.—
The iractures are c pound. and his leg has been ant-
indated a little below the knee; he continues in a dao,.e..
$ nie.

o.i Friday evening. the yth inn. the colt .ge of Rota.
K,rivet, an industrious, labourer of Swine,lterd, Lincoln.
s lire. which is situated at a distance frain that villa?e,
oat !eut by three tarn, who at.enipted to make 43
entry at like window. Nlrs Kirton being at home by
iferf:elf, was at first much alarmed. but scion h came ,co
coutaatous as to cake dOWII a loaded Enna the c,11:0::,
ul which she discharged at them. A irr re.loa ing, s'
tired • second anti even a third time When ti
btutid Der Si. resent' te, they inane ott; but, as it is
n.. 1 until one of theist had been wounded, as nt y
traces of blood were 'text morning observed near the
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT ST. PAUL'S CATHY.
ORAL.—On 11101111111 L. SbOUt. a titi.tticr be g.'e
tweif o'ciffet,, • inci•sicitoly accident happened in tlrs
c.oh dral; one in toe labourers, mused Colley, its tie
employment of Nlessrs Crake, in ifinviint a board nesso
11:1 step, and unto tttttt ately fell hunt the Sealiol.l to the
ti tot, a inngin of six.y tett, and Nat killed on the ba.

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