The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-06-18

were afterwards in the English, but enrolled in
Latin.
When Cromwell became Protector, he had
the latin records and phrases TUNED into En-
glish But at the restoration OF Charles II, this
novelty was no longer countenanced, the practi-
TONERS finding it very difficult to express them
selves so conc sely or significantly in other Ian
guage than the latin.
Catharine II, of Russia, gave orders that the
punishment of death should be abolished thro'
out her dominions, being fully persuaded of its
uselessness and pemiciousness.
BY the laws of the Jews and Egyptians, as
mentioned by Josephus and Diodorus Sculus,
whoever without sufficient cause was found with
any mortal poison in his custody, should himself
be obliged TO take it.
Crimes (says Beccar) are more oaectually pre-
vented by the certainty, than by the severity, of
punishment. For the excessive severity of laws,
says Monesquieu, hinders their execution
When the punishment surpasses all measure,thc
public will frequently, ou. of humanity, prefer
impunty to it.
Jonathan Wild had under him, in England, a
corps of thieves, during the reign of George I,
and kept an extensive depository for receiving
stolen goods: he would become an informer him
self, for the purpose of receiving from the owners
one half the price, and sitting further inquiry
He was finally taken, and on conviction execu-
ted as lelon.
Not ninth part of the population of Athens
we're admitted to the privilege of voting in the
assemblies the people, and indeed nine-tenths
of the inhabitants throughout all Greece were
slayes--Keat.
Paloy said that about one half of the Com
mons of Great Britain were elected by the peo-
pie, and the other half came in by purchase, or
by the nomination of single proprietors of great
lestates.
Government must be framed for man as he is,
and not for man as he would be if he were free
from vice.
Marat was assassinated by brave young mai
den of Caen, named Catharine Corday. When
brought before the Revolutionary tribunal, she
said that her design in killing Marat was to ''put
an end 10 the troubles of France. have kiIled."I
said she, raising her voice TO high pitch, "one
man to save hundred thousand; dcpraved
wretch, to save the innocent ferocous mon
ster, to procure peace to my country"
Ayoung girl named Cicely Renauet, also at
tempted to murder Robespierre some time after
wards. She was arrested while demanding adj
mitanco into his chamber, armed with two
knives.
II was principle engrafted in tho law of the
Twelve Tables of Rome that if a man neglected
to teach his son trade, he was not obliged to
maintain his father when in want--nor was an H.
Legitimate child bound TO maintain his father.
BY the law of the Twelve Tables, if slave
killed his Master, he was thrown from the Tar
Ipeian Rock; false witnesses were thrown head
long from the Capitol, and parricides were sewn
Iup in bag and thrown into the Tiber.
When the French revolution had swept away
1.-THE old laws Of the nation, the government SEEM
ed to have declared war against the marriage con-
Tract, and six thousand divorces arc said to have
taken place in Paris, in the space of two years
land three months.
Chancellor Kent says: "a parent who sends
Ibis son into the world uneducated, and without
skill in any art or science, does great injury tc
mankind, as well as TO his own family, for he de-
frauds the community ofa useful citizen, and be-
|queuths 10 it q nuisance"
+ In Prussia a most excellent system of educa
: ton was established under Frederick II. Tho
boys were sent to school from their sixth to the
}, thirteenth year, whether their parents were able
n to pay the school tax or not; and the parent o.
y guardian was doubly taxed who neglected, with
+ out sufficient cause, to send his child or pupil
Sir Iohn Hawkins was the FIRST Englishmar
who, in 1869, introduced the practice of buying
or kidnapping negroes in Africa, and transport
ling and selling them for slaves in the West In
dies In 1920, Dutch vessel contained car
go Of slaves from Africa to Virginia, and this wa
the first epoch of their introduction into the colo
lnes.