The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-01 00:00:00

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DEAM.

Ceme, Fool, to moons life's little span,
• And hush that impious cry ;
For what an abject thing were man,
Jr he were tie er to die.
Yet grant thee ail thy ,nut's desire,
A free, immortal state;
Soon immortality would tire.
And then would'st curse thy fate:
Wealth,' hononrs, all the world can give,
And soft lustsciovs ease,
The charms for which men crave to live,
Would lose their pow'r to please.
Lot Death, tho' harsh to worldly ears,
'I o Misery and to me.
Sonnds like the ?limit of the spheres,
Celestial harmony
It mingles in one common clay
Tb' oppressor and th' opprest t
It wipes the tears of grief awny4
And gives the weary rest.
It hide the wretched Miser part
From his ill-gotted store ;
It terrifies theatoutest heart,
That never' shook before.
It quite unnerves the Warrior's arms
It makes the haughty bow;
And rudely Withers every charm
On Beauty's heavenly brow.
Its voice unbars the prison dears
And sets the Captive frees
The slave endures the lash no more,
But springs to liberty.
It conquers woe, disease, and pain,
All private, public strife;
And snaps at once the heavy chain
That binds us fast to life.
And from a Sorrowing world like this,'
And Fortune's twittering &sin,
It leads to everlasting
To conquest and
.a.crown.
Then cease to mourn life's Itttlespaoi
And blush that impittuit cry;
Fur what an abject Mint Were ma? •
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rvidenee that their frequency and .publicity does not
tleter from crime, nay from crime under the very
gallows. We dr; not 'mein what wey It is calculated
to answer so desirable an end. •It conveys no lu-
struction. It does not furnish* view into the .rt-
COS,PS of the heart, nor into the proceedings of the
Councils of Ileiven, nor the state of gyilty lathe
regions where they are doomed to ankr atonment in'
the midst of *ailing and gnashing of teeth,— it is.
• not in ell cases' the consequence of offence ; ;for:the
iunorent have suffered. Sonsetirries.cita .legalit•y
rpiectionaide. It will•possitily 'his:asked, sehat‘la thej
otijec•t of the fosegeing obserratiens. • .We Geissler
purely to call the attentiow•of the Public t? the .1
ject. Nothing can he more stiaistibtaa theta that greet'
misapprehension prerrails respeetieg it. .We do ns
say that capital puniatinsee4 should abstolutelybe WWI
sole, though we find it 'difficult to.reconcilsit,with;
the perfections of God, and,the doctrines•of lie rel
ligion.of Jesus, Ilia we do say, that /tome new •reguei
titian, are P6ll4ltially.requisite.in the mode and,reen3
net of inflict ingit, and espetially in.the scalwot crimei
to which it is attudied.

.oinCE.' •
• The strange. end bungling Manner in. whiek•litel
business at some of the latarAssise, has. been. Jane,:
-or rather attempted to be transacted, having tamed'
public attention to the general mode of ..tlisprosing
justice by ttrivellivg Judgeshipa, the following es-
tract from Jerweny- Itrotham's Draft of a Were Plan
fcr the Organttatibia' of -the Judi 6W; Rstablishatooad
in Franee; eepesing Ate folly of thus hawking wbodtt
jidstice, May be 'mode with much propritiAl and!
perhaps some entertainment and Usefulness at.the pre-
sent moment :-
66 The institution of Circuits has. been spoken of
as a master-piece. -Great men travelling about the
country twice a year, staying two whole days in a
place, and carrying justice home to the very doorsof
linkmen. Whatcondescension! Justice four days out
-of the 365 is certainly better than no justice at all!,
It gives you no bad chance of not having a partiali
Judge. Staying but a day or two in a county, a
Judge has no time to form connections. If Country
Gentlemen never came up to town ; and if Barristers
never went Circuits before they were •Judges, nor
ever went the same Circuits t iceafter they came to be.
Judges, they might here no such connections. It gives
you a cheap establishment. • Send a Judge to a place
four days. he will cost you but a ninety-first part of
. what it would cost you to keep him there for 365.
Keep no Judge any w here, and your establishment will.
be still cheaper. One thing the argument forgets :—that
what you save in Judges, you spend ten times over
in Counsel and. Attornies. No cause hut what most
travPl Intaiwards and forwards between town and
Country- several tunes; and causes do not travel for
'nothing. If motile be liecessery to honesty, nothing
hinders your nutting your Judges into round-about,
so long as you put a seat into it for every county, or
whatever else the division may be, with a Judge in
every seat, Circuits keep defendants in criminal
cases in jail, six months in come places, twelve in
other:, before trial. Between circuit and circuit,
evidenee vattisne, ssitnesseti ATP tampered with, Jus-
tice lies away in a pet, if a witsies.,'s match goes too
slow ; ci:uses lease ti:e best part of their features by
being squeezed into a nutshell ; time digs a great
gulph between deliticsency'and punishment. If you
will have circuits to be good things, keep to wets-
phors. Corruption breed: in stagnant wale's. As-
some that Judges are waters, and the thing is done.
Three Courts with twelve Judges in them, serve 'by
the help of circuits, for as many Jury cau,es as all
England supplies. I will tell Gentlemen how they
they make twelve Judges go as far in France. Enact
a law that no man shall sue another for a
oithout spending thirty pounds, before he
knows holier he 'ball get it. or no ; slid as much
more up to three or four hundred, as circumstances
may requite. The I,t4t shilling I have happened to
hear of as got in this way, cost the plaintiff 1301. ; of
which however by the help of the Judges' certificate
in his favour he got back all but the pad thirty. This
shilling had nothing to distinguish it from other shit.
lings.— When a piece of clock•work is set -a going,
and heads to look after it are wanting, it keeps on
going whether it be of use; or whether it be of none.
This old clock-work of revolving Judges having kept
on going for so many years, is admired to this day,
partly because it was of use when new, but much
more so because it is old—the greatest of all merits
in the eyes of a lawyer."