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al Comforts are little inferior , and where he is exempted from many of the evils incident t 6 his usual mode of life . Shejpp-steal ing is the most common offence , for
which imprisonment here is adjudged ; the term of confinement extending from two to five years , atid a certain portion of daily labour being appointed for each prisohfer . The crime of adultery ,
Committed for the third time , is punished by a confinement of two year ' s . At the time we visited Iceland ; there were six people imprisoned i ft this place ; but this is probably rather below the usual number .
Capital punishment , though stric ^ fy provided for by the laws iii trases of mutder , &c . is scarcely ever required among a people , jfrcintte in all their dispositions , and iioSs&ssnfrg moral qualities of the
" itfdsf excellent description ^ Examples of this kind have been so ; Vfcry fare , that a few years ago , "When a peasant was condemned to die for the murder of his wife ,
no Gne In the island could be i r > - ^ Uced to pe rform the office of ex' eeutibtte ^ and it was necessary to send th £ criminal over to Norway , that the sentence of the law tnight be carried into effect . The method
prescribed for inflicting death , is that of taking off the Head with an apce * In all cases where capital punishment or perpetual imprisonment have ( hasj been adjudged b y the courts , the ratification of the 'Kfng ^ of Denmark is required , befbre the sentence can be acted
Ujpofc * Vfy : ' a . 1 lfuv enacted a few yearjs ago , it is provided that no Iceland-• er , unless under an accusation tvhicK rhight subject him to capital punishment , or to imprisonment
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for life , shall be kept in confinement before the time of his triba l . AVhen an individual is accused of any inferior crime , he is admonished by the Hreppstiore ^ in the
presence of witnesses , not to leave the parish , in which he resides . Tf he infringes upon this obligation , an-d is afterwards apprehended , he remains under strict confinement , until judgrnent upon his case has been pronounced .
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On a Passage in the Ci Edinburgh Review . ' The Edinburgh Review ^ the most powerful of all our periodical publications , has at length taken
up the cause of the Protestant Dissenters . In an essay , in the number [ xxxvii , from p * 149 to 164 ] just published , an able writer gives $ . ^ lig ^ t historical sketch of the penal laws to which 'Protestant
Dissenters are subjected , specifies the present state of those laws , and then examines their utility for the preservation of the Established Church . The account of the penal laws is far 'froth being complete ; but it is sufficient to expose the absurdity and iniquity of into .
lemnce in general , and the ingratitude of refusii \ g full religious liberty to Protestant Dissenters in particular . Many excellent rejnarks are interspersed , on the inexpediency of persecution ; . whether hy the actual infliction of-corporal
pain , by imprisonment , by pecuniary penalties , or by the deprivation of honours . There is one passage , however , so inconsistent with the spirit of the writer , and so fatal to his argument * that we
cannot refrain from hazarding some animadversions upon it : in making them , we wish not to les *
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32 On a Passage in the Edinburgh Review . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/32/
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