The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-13 00:00:00

TilF §TATMAN

To rat EDITOR OF rig ST.ITE.II.IN.
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Stn--The slanting plevalenee of crimes—ibi
atrocious murders strict have left a itsin on oar
motional restation—lke frequoacy of politic elect=
lions, so distimslog to a humane mind—and those
almost toessimpleti iodate's a artful /raid sea
jitters& pecelailoo, which kat' Wet lorteght to light.
st that early period of life *bet, is gerieraiLthe *rq
redisiests of character are saintly shalt sad
dentine, ars equally strangers to sleet boil oleo.
cannot fail to tome the attentitio the Ilkoraghtfat
moralist, sod the political Onto/Weer. We ass
latently led to look aroma for ibis bite of limb
distant, soil to consider glut tookidy tat be ap-
plied to stop the progress of list shoo which seated
so intently to bast inshiested itself lets the veins
of At social body. It Ike pretest letter 1 shall jest
touch to this tabled; and obeli lea** it to bo mere
deeply investigatimi by some of year more legislates
aid able Corrospeodesis.
The primary stereo tit width I 'MAW' Ike twilit
tompleited ef, is the Brest watt of anilotroreat la
Ike lower rinks of life. The leo, led disosiesmo
traria shish wo base bete Mimed, bit rodeos&
coosequeoces which wilt b. felt by geterstieas St
sober a. Ashes, Niter camellias, we may Wei to It
the decay of oar commeree sod mattfactores. 14..:
tints who sacs purchased of us Oro prodaittioos of
the forge sad the loom, ban sabositesod ortittos of
their own fabrication to their stood, or bate inewod
Ito d. 'Moot them. As a onsinarr cooseloesse. a
prodigious number of artistes sod bilsoorth lent
bent thrown out of empleysteot, .bd Tedetied to all
j t..e . issues of Ink& entiftgat the maw omits Sod
stitentorous hat( souelst it forego climes that W.td
; shish they were enable to Mlle in their own iota,
r • Ilse stile aid the dlrsipstod have been cossetted into
nanturii2l plunderers. sod midnight ins• Thee
in carry me • war. whose object bat bees tbo ti
ts.
blithrovitt of despotism and serperstilitas ;—a wet as
ah.nitl as any of the aaaaa dos, bat destine of their
1 heroic spirit and spleaditt chivalrous scbinagoontsi
we hare ealmosted ocr resources,deprited dm Laborer -
iog clown of tire cornmeeity of eisiploymeat, sod
tiletsited the kingdom il4 a state of distress. at Which
auticipation shedders 1 Ist vats it is that ptbsas ate
erected ; dist eihliets blackeo ter public meat ; apd
that Justice displays her owlet sword, whilst the
scale pangs of longs slimiest* to theft, sail the grid
of smiting families hope: to deproduti..n. It results
for oser.blosted affluence to amuck out the bowels of
1 distress and to bestow Its sopeatees transom
" in feeling the heniry, sod clothing the asked,'
—it remains for our sapient legislators; who have
Ibroegkt this misery nu this widen, to reetstei 10
cause, and to Ind out employment anti support foe
I those who ere reduced to the boners of stateatiem,
, 'before the sterstioes alma refitted to will bide Wilt

heads.
Another source to which I attribite Ilse elerseirg
growth of echoes, is I•se I.ngsioorj diapositvos•gooe.
riled amidst the scenes of hostility in sibirk ire bevy
►eat engaged. lion seer innoroot and homes Os
yout►ful recruit may be, when he bids adios t• the
spyge steads Raw -b birth, be is s diffused ellesas•
ter w►ew he retires.
'rho imilactivninato sorority of our Pend Gen is
another source to whkh we may ascribe the
don of greet triune The trees of the f
iorepable alf•bstract ►easonl•g, calcuiate the sehesere
of crimes from the deems of ;smelly sewed to
thee. Wisest, Ilterefoce, murder sod. reinter! ire
I alike possisheil with dirells;—whilst the revery et
lone pound sod of tee shosesod are both capital p—.
•hilat we popish shop.liftieg and meson dike
whilst the 'street, rite is Bahl. to be homed, se a
itiPSAPy, may stet, hews or children, rob lish-peed/
or t let, kill deer, kg. dtc. aithoot Morrie/
soy now liability, Motes .ill abound, and t►e meet
'Frescoes Ideas' prevail on the subject of hawse
11 goat. Closely connected with this, is the frvisteresr
of out esecations : they otter so often, that, Instead
lefeppalling, they bard*. the heart ; and the jokier
of the peo.sliment is, in a great degree, lost is the
estimation of the delinquent, is coosequanics of the
rarest member who ate cattleman, sharing tbe new
fete.
The last Cline to which I shall bore advert, es the
snare of crimes, is the want of lasagnes's. With-
out entering into the point, whether the heals• sits 4
is at brat a were tabula ruse, sod similar soy asses.
tial difference of character origleally 'listed belgeee
the philanthropic Haggard and the degraded lr♦tl+aes
certain it is, eke is generally lb. effect of lemonlike,
virtue generally the consequence of a geed adecatfese
Indeed, this mann cannot be toe deeply enemata
on every hart—that t►e fonadation of all aisles is
error. Let genetsi schools of instreniee be 'petted
—let chalk's be educated at the enteral espeece—.
let thew be taught their duty le their Cod and thee.
fellow men ; to the parents w►• reared them, mei
' the country that gave thew birth ; sod it would them
be resod, that crimes wiatald diminish, that Ike
would hide its brim* front, sod virtue gad heppiessa
be estsbliabed on en immutable bases. Hopp? dm.
ratters, who can thus act the pert of a weed Pre+
videuee ; who an 'steed the fostering wing .our
unprotected infancy. aid Irak" the bomMe
chl rum
of indigoes:sr to esefelrins eel virtue; their same
should be written in letters of gold, sod their States*
placed in our peblic edifices.