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with horror at some recent barbarities ; every one wishes thai the perpetrators of these deeds of blood may be brought to condign punishment : — -but it shocks one ' s sense of justice to reflect that on
the same dayonwhjch the authors of Mich monstrous wickedness are obliged to pay the deserved forfeit of their lives , there may be put to death , under the sanction of the law , some inexperienced youth for writing ' down a false name , or
some wretched female for coining the least valuable piece of our money !" If these sentences strike you on reading , as they did me on hearing * yon will I doubt not give them to the public . ADJUTOR . /
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Criminal Law of Iceland * [ From Travels in Iceland . By Sir G . S , Mackenzie , 4 to « p £ , 318—321 , ] The study of their own laws , as well as of the principles of law
in general , has ever been a favourite pursuit among the Icelanders ; and both in ancient and modern times , a great number of writings connected with this subject , have
appeared in the island . In consequence of this minute attention , all the laws of the country , both civil and criminal , are very distinctly defined and even among the inferior magistrates , are so well understood , that their execution
is every where conducted with fidelity and exactness . The punishments for theft , prescribed in th £ criminal law , are varied by the degree of the offence . In cases where the th <* ft is of little
importance , or the crime committed for the first time , the offender is whipped * in the presence of
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only the judge and two witnesses . This punishment is allotted also to other trifling-offences , when the poverty of the persons convicted makes it impossible for them to pay a pecuniary fine . In cases
where petty thefts have been a second time committed , the cri - minal is usually sent to Copenhagen ; in the workhouse of which city he is confined for the term of three or five years , according to the degree of his guilt . Thefts of
a more serious nature ^ as the breaking into churches or houses , or the stealing of horses , are punished either by public whipping , or by a sentence of perpetual confinement in the Copenhagen workhouse . * Where such thefts have
been committed for the fourth time , or still more frequently , the punishment is confinement for life in the public prisons of Denmark . The operation of these more severe laws is , however , very seldom rttquired ; crimes of this description being by no means frequent among the natives of
Iceland-The only public prison in the island is that of Reikiavik , which was erected about fifty years ago * By a mistake , not unnatural in such a country as Iceland , this building has been rendered greatly more comfortable than the
common habitations of the natives ; so that , were it not for the privation of liberty , the Icelander might well be content to exchange his own abode for one where his
actui ^ In the workhouse at Copenhagen there are different sections , * allotted to different classes of criminals . The men condemned to confinement there , are kept in a part of it called the Rasp-huus 9 where they arc employed in rasping dyowoods ; an occupation considered very dangerous to the health .
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Criminal Law of Iceland . 31
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/31/
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