The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-10 00:00:00

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modest ea that awful Asap when met by sinful leldelity.
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fetnrity.—Such thee are the contents °tibia value ble volume;
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Youth and Maturity of both Sexes. By GOSS and Co.
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Theresa Ferrell Daum Sag. kt the Meese if Om-
meas. Walaieday, Meg U. MI ea Ms 111111 *Yet
sitigatiag the seventyof PeeiSameet la farads awes
of Forgery aid de Mows ;mastoid theresidth."'
(Qreassord fires ear Paper afildardeg W.)
The depasisieas ageless the privets" are takes by
the clerks of its) Magistrates. Tbeerelerits were suit-
. melted :—Mr. Payee. clerk to the ;Adair Magistrate at
liaildhall t Mr. Hobble, clerk to the Lied Mayer. 301
years ; Mr. Yardley. dark to she rellee Wise, Wor
ship-street. 30 years; MI ',Thermos,. ;dirk* the Pollee
east. Whasehapel, slam its 'stabilities's 46 roars.
Mr. Nooses, City Selielter for tiirty years.
Perhaps she whole world meld sot afford as equal
masher e( penes, whir aay thlag like the sane de-
gree-of a:palettes apse His part of the subject, it is
issinsibis fir IS 1a 41qadi yes I#l6 ai:fila*

levAiefaen-rilei AU** gear, swo. s -.... _ _
iteee to asserts thee if any redeems will exercise his
liptagioatios in investing facts which would tell in ;ur
lavostr, and will clothe these facts in the strongest,
laapage ; the facts thus supposed. cad the language
thus employed, would sot be stronger than the facts
actually stated, sod the language actually used by
these geodesist.. of so much experience and so much
respectability.
But to proceed. Tke prisoner is committed to gaol.
He is there visited by his Solicitor. Now, I must call
the peculiar attend., of the House to the evidence
upon which here we ast—Mr. Harmer's evideuee.—
That potions, has spent the last twenty years is the
active engspitenis of this part of the profession. He
has been *Wien to two thousand prisoners ; admitted
SID their ; acquainted with their secrets; and
has bad eallkoap7ortunity of observing the effect pro-
duced epos their minds by the existing law. Again.
elate years be has bees solicitor for almost all prose-
cutors; admitted. in the same way, to their secrets;
and seeing the ;damee of the law upon their conduct:
and he comes from all this experience. with the most
,untionbting emviction, that the severity of your law
georratateeless.
He le asked. " flare you any observations to
make, with respect to the effect of capital punish-
ment?" ••.:11 have ; first as to forgery; it appears to
me. that thq pasishossat of death has no tendency to
prevent this crime. I have in many instances. booms
prosecutors decline procediegs against offenders, be-
cause the punishment is so severe. Instances have
come within my knowledge, of bankers and opulent
ladividuals. who. rather than take away the life of a
fellow.erlatitrs, have compromised with the delinquent.
faentaroe have occurred 0 a prosecutor pretending
to hove his pocket picked of the forged lu-
stre in other cons, prosecutes's have destroyed
line - adontitr sad . when thy have se,
hove
mimed' ey-hove-ensaid publicly that it was because
she persons life vas is jeopardy. I will relate a very
Feast circumstance that occurred soder my observe-
tioa at the Old Bailey. A porsoe, through whose
bands a forged bill bad passed, and whose appearance
upon the trial was requisite to keep up the necessary
chain of evidence, kept out of the way to prevent the
conviction of the prisoner; it was a private bill of ex-
cheese. I also know another recast instance, where
some private individuals, after the commiment of &pri-
soner, raised a thousand pounds for the purpose of
satisfying some forged bills of exchange ; and they
declared, and I have good reason to know the fact,
that if the punishment bad been any thing short of
death, they would not have advanced a farthing, be-
cause he was a man whose conduct had been very dis-
graceful; but they were friends to the man's family,
and wished to spare them the mortification and dis-
grace of a relative being executed, and therefore stop-
ped forward and subscribed the before mentioned sum.
I lave frequently seen persons withhold their testi-
mony even when tinder the solemn obligation of an
oath to speak the whole truth; because *they were
aware that their testimony, if given to the full extent,
would have brought the guilt home to the parties ac-
cased ; and they have therefore kept bark a material
part of their testimony. In all capital indictments.
with the exception of murder, and some other heinous
offences. I have often observed prosecutors show great
reluctance to persevere, frequently forfeiting their re-
oognisances ; and, indeed, I have, on many occasions.
been consulted by prosecutors as to the consequences
of refusing to confute' to their recognizance*, that is,
to appear and prosecute the prisoner."
.4 When you speak of the cases of murder and other
heinous offences, do you mean offences accompanied
with violence to the person, or which are likely in
their consciences to inflict serious injury 2" " Certain-
ly; those are the offences to which I allude; I know
that many persons who are summoned to serve as jury-
men at the Old Bailey, have the greatest disinclina-
tion to perform the duty. on account of the distress
that would be done to their feelings, in consigning so
many of their fellow-creatures to death. as they mast
now necessarily do. if serving throughout a cession :
and l have heard of some, who have bribed the sum-
moning officer to put them at the bottom of their list,
or keep them out altogether, so as to prevent than
from discharging this painful duty; and the instances
I may say are innumerable, within my own observa-
tion, of jurymen giving verdicts, in capital cases, in
favour of the prisoner. directly contrary to the evi-
dence. I have seen acquittals in foeyery, 'ober@ the
verdict has excited the astonishment of every one in
Court, because the guilt appeared mseguivocal, and
um acquittal could only be attributed to a strong feel-
ing of sympathy and humanity in the jury to save a
fellow-creature from certain demi'. 'llse old professed
thieves are aware of this sympathy, and are desirous
of being tried, rather on capital indictments titan other-
wise.
It has frequently happened to myself, in usy
communications with them, that they have expressed a
wish dist they might be indicted capitally, become
there *es a greeter chaace 9( snaps. IA the Mille
of My experience, I have found that the punishment of
lath has no terrier spun a common thief; indeed, it,