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London, England, 1819-01-06 00:00:00

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,cliviecty be perinitted te)• study in Cie p.uhric
rsitics. Is it not rcmnrkable that the Cuurt of
essc 51101113 endeavour to shut out the great body
its sii!ijeas front inteilectual attainments
I;ch mightso well qualify them to appreciate the'
be of the Government under which they live ?

The valuable Returiis %Odd' the fondncs, fur Sta-
..ioi Inquiries Las lady called forth, in almost
ery country of Europe, le.td to smile very curious
ilections. A very general notion is elite
rtained,
ar rove Suicides are committed in Elighiiid than

e.hcr cm-itric; : and, day aft•,r day, the NCWS-
pas are filled with commuhications, in which this
ettways a,,surnel as an undoubted fact. The late
i:f* Mr. K.‘mwrz. of Ilerlin, tintnded ou
Rettum:, prove.,, that in the town,. of Prussia
Stticide are more nunteroth than they are hi
I'tl7.
..) . 57
.. 1,1026 . 77
. 53

:;gland. For instanu•:

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10,G011 . 7,7
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6,000 .

13,000 .

yie do not believe that in any one town of the Bri-1
A dornia4ips., thy Capital not excepted, the suicides
,mount to one-tenth of the rate of Reichenbach,
is 00 less than one in 62.
But though the suicides in this country be not
.ire numerous ;');lii they are in otlier countries, we
n
egret to say, that crimes in England are out of all
iniportion more numerous than they are in any
: erpart of civilized Europe.
xppears Item an account of the crimes of France,
:hick have in any mar.:;er given rise to prosecution,
!rpended to M.LAINE's ItepOrt, that during the se-
:ere years of 191(3 and 1917, they ur.ly amounted in
he former to ti,S37, and in the lattin to 9,1t55, Now
nt commitments Thr England and Wales alone, in
amounted to 1:3,9:32. The population of Eng-
land and Wales. by the last retifitn, is 10,191,000,
and the popul ttion of France, by the lase return, is
.25,9'.16,'300. Se that the rate of crime in England is
abcut 4ir times greater than in France.
It appears from the Returns of Commitments
(House of Commons), No. lei', Feb.l2, 1812 ; No. 84,
'.2b:h Feb. 181.2; and No. 210, 22. d May, 1812; that
thv rate of crime in Ergland was then ten times
Treater than it was in Scotland. Front a table of the
roportion of commitments to the population, on an
averate of five yeas s, from 1803 to 1809, it appears
flat even the Midland Circuit of England was four
tares higher that-, in Scotland.
" That thine is any thing better in the Scottish
ti:ara,:tci," said Mr. SOUTHEY, "than in our own,
'ACSIINIU in t acknowlede, nor would they pretend
un still lesi would our countrymen be disposed to
aritnowle.le there is any thing better in the French
character. V But how arc we to account for the great
prepon.!crance of crime in England ?
It is not enough to state that a commercial and
rr.ntufactui ing population must always be more cri-
mival than an agricultural population. It appears
front tiie Population Returns, that even a greater pro-
portion of the Scotch popuh&on is engaged in com-
merce and manufactures than the English. The
moportion of large towns too ia both countries is
lvarly the sane.
If we are to believe Mr. Br STIIANI, the dispropor-1
aoaate =cunt of crimes in England, when compared!
.:11 Scotland, ari.e, chiefly from the crime-pro-'
2:icing virtue of the Church of England." But Mr.
WOUld hardly contend that the Church of
:Arland is worse than the Church Rome, under
4..i;h, in France and Aus,ria, so much fewer crimes
..ie committed than in l::1;laild. Neither surely trill
contended by nut' other person, that the supe•

. .
.A:Lty et. the French, in this revect, :irises from the
I”.ct.tl devrtion of t':e Csurcl,es in France, which,
tc are to believe the Journals of this
• ..z::y, has been occasion...l i,v the slender pay of
i're eh Clergy, though i; the I'M time, we
t4-it such an elket has bees produced by

c.O c.

religion. alone were able to arl es: crime, our cri-

calendars would be vel ent from what they
,v; are. The E:•gli,h are ;..encrailv a:lowed to he the
religious peop:.! of Europe a_ pre-,ent mo-
-1,•%:; and many it.liyion: iniividuah of England,
certe..a. field open for them in their

'.:r.try, a: e now tk, hr fout:,; in most part:, of the
endeavouring to product.' a religious re-'
aniung the people. But religion is only one of

?rcventives frrtm crime.
su,peet the great prep ,t :ince of crime in.
:zianti chiely ing to ts'o causes. Oae of these
barbarous ch.tracter of the Criminal Law of
and the atiniber of acts wl:ich it subj,fcts

The (~tmc Laws alone pioduce more
Im-r.irments than Le whole number of. commitments

t:t. Austrian Monarchy (a population of twenty-
millionc) amounts to. Such has been the effect
the unreltilting severity of our laws in hardening..
pvople, that we believe an imp:isonment for a
ttk in some countriet. is as much an object of dread
;In execution is to an Englishman. The French
-Ns, in particular, are much more humane than the
W's of England.
The next great cause is the misery of the people;
'r misery and crime go always hand in hand. The
•bouriug classes in Scotland are not miserable ; they

are happy and comfortable compared with the same
classes in England. In the one count,* they are inde-
pendent, in the other they are kept down. Thoagh
there are other sources, yet the Poor Laws are undoubt-
edly the chief source of the degradation and misery of
the labouring classes in England. fly the mischievous
operation of these Laws, the masters can give their
labourers just what they please. What with the Law
of Settlement, and what with other restrictions, the
English labourer is almost as much attached to the
oil as the serfs of Poland or Russia.

Lord CASTLFkr AGIT, we are happy to state, is fast
receiver ing from his late severe attack of the gout.
Lord CA `ir LEREA f; I t's baggage, containing a ser-
vice of plate, with a quantity of other valuabl.e ef-
fects, arrived in the 'liver, on Sunday evening last,
from Ai x•la-Chapelle. His Lordship's servants, who
conducted the baggage, embarked with it at Ant-
werp, and had a very dangerous passage, being
eleven days at sea.
•

By a Cabinet Letter of the Ist instant, the Emperor
of A usTRIA has conferred the Cross of the Order of
Leopold on Sir G. MunRAY. Quarter-Master-General
of the English Contingent of the Army of Occupation.
'(he Eall of CAIMICK is lA,: mentioned as likely
to become a candidate for one of the vacant Repre-
sentative Peerages of Ireland.
Lord and Lady GRANTHAM have had a large party
of distinguished friends at Newby llall, during the
holidays.
Viscount. ANSON is arrived at his house in St.
jarrics's•squae, from attar.
The Earl of Mt L•Dow N is the Nobleman to whom,
it is said, Miss STEPHENS is AbOlit to give her hand.
Lord CLANWILLIANr has left Town on a visit to
Lord GetAxTttAM, at his Lordship's seat, Newby Hall,
Yorkshire.

The Duke of ByeeLFuun is expected to embark
in a day or two for Lisbon, in the Liffey, which is
gone from the River.
The Duke of DevomstllltE is expected to anive at
Devonshire House, in a few days, from Paris.

The Duke and Duchess of NORTIIIJIMERLAND, it
is expected, will ICAVC AinWiCk Castle, this llty, to
proceed on their way to town, every necessary pre-
paration being already made for their reception, at
their house in St. James's-square.
Count and Countess I.lEs,Ks, and three sons, are
lately arrived tram the Continent. 'They experienced
a very unfavourable passage. which subjected the
Noblu Countess to a severe cold. Count LIEVEN is
also afflicted with rheumatism.

The Emperor ALEXANDER continued at Vienna to
the '2l st of December. lie employed a peat part of
each day in visiLing public establishments.
The Emperor of Rossi.% is said to have granted a
considerable pension to the widow of the celebrated
General MOREAU.

The new mission for exploring the interior of
Africa, is under the direction of Mr. IturculE, Lite
Private Secretary to our Ambassador at Paris. His
companion and second in the mission is Lieutenant
LAON, late of his Majesty's ship ALBION, now at
Malta, who volunteered and was appointed at the
recommendation of Admiral Sir CHARLES PICNROSE,,
as being peculiarly qualified for this service. They
are accompanied by Monsieur DurosTE, a French
naturalist; also by a surgeon and carpenter. The
ilAstrAw and a military escort attend them from
Tripoli (where trey now are) to Mourzuk, and they'
are to have a like escort throughout their progress.
Mr. ltircitte is a young man of great research, abi-
lities, and prudence.

The extensive corn-mill of Messrs. llostEn and
DRAKE, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire, was last week
consumed by fire; the loss is estimated at from nine
to ten thousand pounds. The accident is supposed to
have been caused by the friction of the machinery.
Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, before
the Right lion. Sir R. DALLAS, Knight, Lord Chief
Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at
Westminster, in and after Hilary Term, 1819:

Its TERM.

Tuesday January 2.6
Monday February
111orulAy February 8
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