The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1816-05-22
NEW PORl,

nature TO ecstacy, TOO long insuled and tram
pied in the dust, by the ambition, power, and
isnperious domination OF princes. But 10 at
tain this great end, the co,diai co-operaiion OF
the nations of the East, seem Indispensable
The universal prevalence Of good will TO man,
must produce peace on eafth II may not DC
Improper to Inquire what may be the interes-
ted views and temper of the government OF
Great Britain--what the morality OF her sub
jcct., connected with this praise-worihy at
tempt-Shat con side ration weie given by
,bc government Of Great Britain to this very
proposiiion from the constituted authority OF.
twenty eight millions of human beings.in tive
early part Of the French revolution; which,
had il been accepted, hundred of thousands
OF human lives IN our day might have been
protec,ed and secured from premature and
cruel death, and the heart rending anguish of
millions been spared. Not only in war but in
peace, not only 10 India, but in the bosom OF
England, are the hand, OF her government
rocking with human blood.
A book lately published by Gen Pillet, and
which have been purchased up by Bi,ish
agents affords a specimen of the morals Of
the British. That book states. that "iD the
city Of London only in the year 1912, 1868
persons were brought before the criminal
courts OF which 10 we're men, and $40 we,e
women. Ofthis ftightful number 99S were
condemned to transportation, punishments of
liffcren, kinds, and death. That in ,he,same
year GAG individuals, accused Of different
crimes, were sentenced in the county Of Kent,
81 10 different sorts of punishments, and ~
TO death. That of the Fifty two counties in
Englsnd, about FIVE thousand criminals are
found guilty in the year. .Tha, Ireland pas
ses in review. in each year, 1000 criminals,
Scotland 1000. That the population Of the
three kingdoms is about fourteen millions.
That in the course OF q geneation, estimated
a. fifty years, there have been presented TO
the tribunals e the three kingsdoms, sepcn
Ign5rcd and .ffty thousand criminals that is
one oinetecnth part of the total population"
Zen. Pil!et concludes his chapter on crimes
IN these words" am going TO copsccrate q
few chapters to the developemcpi Of this, by
detailing the .crimes Of which England is
charged. will support them by facts taken
from the public records, during the shorv
space Of ten years. | will lay il down as
principle and prove il, that England is the
country where the most crimes are commit
ted where the crimes are OF the mos, afro
cious nature where the circumstances ac-
companyng them are the most frightful
will prove all this, however painful TO homes,
minds"
Dreadful as must he this picture TO the be-
nevoIeni mind, still more wantou proflira,e
and immencc waste Of human life are 70 be
found under the bloody government of Fog-
land, in their India possessions. The very
r-spectsble author Of the wealth Of nations,
Adam Smith, who wrote between l775 and
1888, says, "the prescott state of Bengal and
some other Of the English se'ilem in the
T1a-Indies, three or four hundred thousand
people die # hunger in one vea-." vol.
p,rc 81. Again, vol 3 page 3ss, +" Those
countries are represented as mofe fertile.
,"ore extensive, and in proportion to their
extent, much richer, and more populous than
f;~eai Britain" Brooks G. .zeteer SAYS, ,",hc
province of Bengal is a fruitful pleasant coun-
,,Y, by some esteemed an earthly peradise--
tba, Indos'on is a vast country at least 1900
rifles in hng,h; is very fertile in all sorts of
cora the inhabitants are civil, kind and hu.
name 10 strangers" Such appears to have
bcen the condition Of this once happy county
eri people, until the savage British arms (sc-
coriing to the testimony of some writer's, al.
most dcpopulated one Of the faircst portions
Of ,ac GIob--and his mons,rors cncrmi,y
I" sanctified from shame" by the British king,
whose government in Iodis, by the respec,a.
81. author, Buchanan, eoun:cnance the wor-
sn;p Of an Idol and The burning 10 death OF |
wo,uen on the foneral pile Of deceased hu.-
s,rds; which last pbonina,ion says another
rr'hor. the nahome,ans restrained as far as
'heir influence extended; being contrary TO
the doctrine Of the AchorsR.
When we reflec, on the evidence contain
rd in ihe Trial of Hasiiogs--the testimony Of
.',oy authors Of the detestsble British cruelty
'',4 perhdy, one Of whom says wbercver Eng
= he's uoddep, she has blasted vegetation--
~. ever she has laid her hands, she hl, left