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I,OND ON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1129.

G LOUCESTE R- STRF,ET, QUEEN-SQUARE.
Net Ammal Profit Rent of Fifty-seven Pounds per Annum.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. JOHN ROBINS,
(Of Warwick House, Regent-street), -
At Garraway's, on THURSDAY next, Nov. 12, at Twelve,
by order of the Executors of the late Eiisha Rism e, Esq.
A NET ANNUAL PROFIT RENT of
FIFTY-SEVEN POUNDS, issuing out of a
Dwelling [louse,. No. 26, on the south side of Gloucester-
street, Queen-square, for a term of years, which will ex-
pire at Lady-day, 1846, occupying a frontage of 22 feet ;
t present in the occupation of Mr. Bertrand, on lease to
Mr. Kent.

Particulars may be had of Messrs. Worth= and Smith,
solicitors, Castle-street, Holborn; at Garraway's; and of
Mr. Robins, 170, Regent. street.

MA SHBUR Y, ESSEX, NEAR CHE LMS FORD,
ONGAR, AND DUNMOW.
Valuable Freehold Estate, Farm House, Offices, and
Agricultural Buildings, and One Hundred and Thirty-
two Acres of Rich Meadow, Pasture, and Arable Land.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. JOHN ROBINS,
(Of Warwick House, Regent-street),
At Garraway's Coffee-horse, 'Change-alley, Cornhill, on
THURSDAY next, November 12, at Twelve, by order of
the Executors of the late Elisha Biscoe, Esq.,
A Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, com-
prising an excellent Firm-house, with all requisite
agricultural buildings, yard, garden, &c., recently put into
excellent repair, and
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO ACRES
of rich Meadow. Pasture, and Arable Land, situate at
MASHBURY CHICKNALL AND GOOD EASTER,
in the county of Essex, about six miles from Chelmsford
and Ongar, eight from Dunmow; all good market towns.
In the occupation of Mr. Fuller, on lease, which will ex-
pire at Michaelmas, 1832, at 157/. 10s. per annum.
To be viewed by applying to Mr. Fuller, on the Pre-
mises, of whom particulars may be had ; at the Saracen's
Head and Black Boy, Chelmsford ; Red Lion, Ongar ;
Green Man, Harlow; Saracen's Head, Dunmow; White
Hart, Rumford ; of Messrs. Wortham and Smith, Soli-
citors, Castle-street, Holborn ; at Garraway's ; and of Mr.
Robins, No. 170, Regent-street, where a Plan of the
Estate may be seen.

REPORT MADE to the KING of FRANCE,

The Keeper of the Seals in France has just sub-
mitted for the year 1828, his annual Report to the
King, on the state of the Criminal and Civil Juris-
prudence of that country. The first part of it has
not yet come to our hands, but from the second
part, contained in the Journal dcs Debuts of Friday,
we make the following extracts :
The crimes of the Press and of the Book trade
in 1828, in Paris, and its departments, amounted to
162 accusations; 11G cases were brought to trial,
and of them 72 were acquitted, and 90 found guilty.
Of the 90, 28 were fined only, and 62 fined and
imprisoned.

The appeals were 5,833, being, like last year, the
one-twentieth part of the causes tried in the first
instance. Of 100 decisions appealed against, 54
were confirmed, and 46 reversed, in whole or in part.
Of 2,426 persons accused, who Were finally, on
appeal, acquitted, 298 were arrested, 38 had been
detained less than a month, 118 from one to six
months, 92 from two to three months, and 50 for
above three months.

The number of relapsed criminals, or of those ac.
cused a second time, which, in 1826, was 756, in
1817, 893, was, in 1828, 1,182, of which 1,009
were males, and 173 females. But it is to be ob-
served that this augmentation is only of persons
who had been punished correctionally ; and, per-
haps, it is now to be attributed to a greater correct-
ness than formerly into convictions of this descrip-
tion. The number of those who have previously
been subject to hard labour has diminished, within
the three years, from 179 to 1.52, and that of the
accused liberated from confinement has not varied.

Among the relapsed, 905 had only been once be-
fore condemned, when they again appeared as cri-
minals ; 190 had been twice before condemned, 64
three times, 13 four times, seven five times, two six
times, and only one before incurred seven condemna-
tions ; and, for the eighth time, he was sentenced
to hard labour.

Of the 1,182 relapsed criminals, 146 were pro-
secuted for crimes against the person, which make
12 in the 100, while the genetsl proportion of
crimes against the person, in the whole number of
accused, was 25 in the 100.

In 1827, the proportional number of these crimes
was 28 in the 100 in the whole number, and only
11 in the 100 in the relapsed. In 1828, 251 per-
sons were accused of assassination ; of this number
18 had been condemned and liberated ; four of these
had previously been sentenced to hard labour, one
to close confinement, and 13 to simple imprisonment.
Of 114 sentenced to death, 17 belonged to the
class of those who had been liberated (15 in the
100), five had suffered hard labour, three close con-
finement, and nine imprisonment.
The disposition to steal is what most manifests
itself among the discharged criminals. Of the
1,182 relapsed, 835 had before been punished for
theft; 967 were prosecuted for the same crime in
1828. Among the former sentences, 21 in the 100
were for crimes against the person. In the new
prosecutions there were only 12 in the 100, which
seems to show that punishment is more efficacious
to soften the passions which lead to a violation of
the right of property.
The Correctional Tribunals had to try in 1828,
3,58 persons arraigned for a repetition of offences,
2,790 being males, and 788 females; 2,6841
had only suffered one correctional punishment; 584
bad been punished twice, 189 three times, 64 four
times, 30 five times; 27 had been punished from
six to 36 times.

Uniting the accused to the arraigned, of those
who had relapsed the total is 4,760, who having
been punished and discharged were prosecuted again
in 1828. Of this number 292 had been previously
fined, 2,673 had been imprisoned for less tha►► one
year, 1,771 imprisoned more than one year, 276 had
been condemned to close confinement, and 348 to

hard labour. Of these firee latter classes, witl► the
. exception of 391 whose history is not known, 298
were in the hulks, 1,273 in the nineteen central
houses of detention, 62 in the four great prisons con-
' fleeted with the central houses, and 375 in other
piisons.
Of the relapsed, 29 in the 100 have been in the
1. hulks at Brest, 24 in the 103 in those of L'Orient,
L 25 in the 100 at Rochfort, and 26 at Toulon. For
the four hulks together it is 27.
Of the prisoners in the central house, the pro-
portion of relapsed criminals is 31 in the 100, or four
more than of those in the hulks. The proportion
varies in the diffuent central houses from between
10 in the 100 to 52; the former proportion was
formed of the prisoners in the central houses of
Cadhillai, which contains only women ; the latter
proportion was formed of the prisoners at Loos,
which contains both sexes.
The central house of Nismes only gave 16 re-
lapsed out of 100 persons discharged, of Clermont
(Oise) 17, of Montpellier 19, of Embrun ( Elautes-
Alpes) .22, of Lysses (Lot and Garon;,e) 24, of
Pois:y (Seine and Oise) 44, of Gaillon (Pure) 40,
of Rennes 47. The central house of correction of
Soissons (Aisne) supplied, of 100 persons dis-
charged, 62 who were re-accused.
Investigations are to be made with a view to
ascertain the causes of these differences in esta-
blishments which appear to be regulated by the
same laws.
The results of the new prosecutions directed
against discharged criminals were that 406 have
been acquitted, 243 fined, one placed in the pillory, 17
condemned to death, 479 sentenced to hard labour
for life or for a term of years, 1577 sentenced to
imprisonment for lets than one year; and finally
2,037, including 16S persons discharged from the
hulks, have been sentenced to close confinement or
to imprisonment for more then one year, which
they are to suffer in the central houses of detention,
which, unfortunately, afford no means of separating
them from other prisoners.
The total number of the condemned, who, accord-
ing to their punishment, must have been sent to
these central houses in 1828, was 9431, and the re-
lapsed portion of these 22 in the 100.
The time which has passed between the libera-
tion and the relapse has been carefully marked in
several tables, for all classes of criminals. The pro-
portion of those who have relapsed in the first year
of their return is 28 in the hundred of the galley
slaves; 26 of those Ivim had undergone the punish-
ment of solitary confinement ; 37 of those who had
suffered imprisonment for a year and upwards ; 47
of those imprisoned for a shorter period. Thus, in
the last year, those who have undergone the
severest punishments appear less ready to resume
their criminal pursuits.

Several tables of the first and second part point
out the age of the individuals who had relapsed at
the time of their first or their last sentence. We
see there that 1231 individuals, out of 4,760, a
little more than a quarter, had not attained their
21st year when they entered the career of crime.-
They would, perhaps, have been corrected by their
first sentence, if it had been possible to place them
in private prisons:conformably to the wise provision
of the Royal Ordinance of Sept. 9, 1814.
The third part of the account presents, in five
tables, the number of the decisions pronounced by
the Police Tribunals in each Department. We find
there 95,589 cases, and 132,167 persons accused,
which gives us 6,756 cases, and 9,152 persons
charged more than in 1827.

The fourth pirt comprehends twenty-three tables,
in which are classed all information with respect to
the preparation and decision of criminal and correc-
tional proceedings.
The Chambers of the Council of the Tribunals of
:he First Instance have discharged from proceedings
16,409 culprits, of whom 7,334. had been appre-
lended during the inquiry. That is a little less
:han in 1827.

The Chambers of Accusation have discharged
1,327 culprits; 865 were in prison; they were de-
tained as follows :—For less than a month, 237;
from one to two months, 306 ; from two to three
months, 191; from three to six months, 99; above
six months, 31. Two were detained by virtue of a
preceding sentence.

Among the facts, the causes of which justice was
bound to verify, we remark 4,855 accidental deaths,
1,75,1 suicides, and 86 duels, 29 of which were pro-
ductive of death.

The Chambers of Council have pronounced in all
41,647 decrees, which is 2,633 more than in 1827.
The number of cases submitted to that first degree
of jurisdiction has continually increased for the last

four years; however, the zeal of the Magistrates
has, in every year, been able to increase the celerity
of their proceedings. In 1825, decrees to the num-
ber of 81 in the hundred were pronounced in the
three first months, in cases of crime or delinquency;
in 1826, 82 : in 1827, 81; in 1828, 88.
The criminal accusations also have been deter-
mined a little more readily than in 1827; 65 in the
hundred have been submitted w a jury in the first
six months, instead of 64, and that progress has
been principally found in those places in which your
Majesty remarked most slowness. It is true that
the proportion in the six months has risen from 45

to Corsica, from 22 to 30; at Montpellier,
from 42 to 56; at Pau, from 56 to 66; at Riom,
from 46 to .51; at Toulouse, from 89 to 46. This
result appeared to me worthy of being remarked to
your Majesty, because, by proving praiseworthy
efforts, it chews that the slowness does not arise
from insurmountable obstacles.

A new table shows the duration of a process be-
ginning with the time the accused is placed in
the hands of justice; 90 in the hundred accused
persons have been tried within the first six months;
and 43 in the hundred in the first three months.
In Angers and Orleans, 99 in the hundred have
been tried in six months, 62 and 59 in three months.
The Correctional Tribunals have determined 86
cases in the hundred, in the space of three months
from the time of the crime; they had determined
91 in 1827. The Courts of Appeal have deter-
mined 71 instead of 67, in the two months of appeal.
The correctional judgments have been pronounced
with great exactness. Out of the hundred persons
condemned to imprisonment, 89 have begun
to undergo their imprisomnent within three months
from their condemnation. There were only 81 in
1827.

One hundred and seventeen were implicated, in
1828, in 93 criminal or correctional trials. The
authority to prosecute has been granted with regard
to .58 of them by the Chiefs of the Administrations
to which they respectively belong; and with regard
to 21 of them, by your Majesty, on the advice of
your Council of State. It has been refused for 38.
Of the 79 thus prosecuted, 25 were dismissed by
the Chamber of Accusation ; 25 were acquitted—six
by the Correctional Tribunals, and 19 by the
Courts of Assize ; 27 were condemned—six of
them to infamous punishments, two to imprisonment
for one year and upwards, two for less, 10 were fined,
and two are not yet tried.—Journal des Debats.

INIPOLICY OF HIGH DUTIES.—As proofs
(Rays the Chester Chronicle) among many, that excessive
taxation defeats itself, it may be mentioned, that, at this
time, when the duty on French wines is 6s. a gallon, the
produce to the revenue is greater than when it was Ils. sd. ;
and the duty on coffee, at Is. a pound, produced, in
1823, 393,703/. whereas, when reduced in 1815, to 6d.
the amount was 126,1871.