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Proposition . III . „ . Experience has not shewn that Capital Punishments te ? idt to the diminution of Crimes . " The Duke of Tuscany soon after the publication of the Marquis of Becearia * s excellent treatise ^ abolished death as a punishment for murder . A gentleman wha resided five years at Pisa , informed me that only five murders had been perpetrated in his
dominions in twenty years . The same gentleman added , that after his residence in Tuscany , he spent three months in Rome , where death is still the punishment of of punier ; and where executions , according to Dr . . Moore , are
conducted with peculiar circum . stances of ptibTic parade . During ilus , ' short period , there were sixty fntfrders committed in the precincts < S ? that city . It is remarkable that the manners , principles and
religion of the inhabitant of Tus * cany and Rojne are exactly the same . The abolition of death , ailorte , as a puriishment for mur . cler , produced this difference in the moral character of the two nations . " Rush ' s Inquiry into Public Punishmtnt * p . 30 . / * < fi Sir James Mackintosh
delivered his last charge to the Grand Jury at the Sessions for Bombay , Brefcf on trie 13 th of July ; in which he suggested' the establtehmen * of a better system of police , a , nd more efficient regulations for" the distribution of the
property of insolvent merchants . T ^ he learned judge also commented upon * the effects produced by desi ^ irjg from / irifttetihg Capital Funialjments , during , the * period he had presided iu that cour t , and ' ^ ' ¦ ' 4 ¦ . J t . ¦> « r \ i t y
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observed that 200 , 000 men had been governed for seven years without a . capital punishmenty and without any increase of crimes > At the close of th ^ Sessions , th « foreman of trie Grand Jury clelivered an address to Sir James from
that body , expressing their regret at the dissolution of tne connecu * . on between them and him , and requesting that the learned judge would sit for tiis portrait , which
they were desirous of placing in the fjall where he had so long presided with such distinguished abilitv .
" Sir James in his answer , expressed hisacknowledgementSj and replied , that as soon asjbie reached Great Britain , he would take measures for complying with trieir cta sire . " * Morning Chronicle ^ AlondayL Feb . 3 . 1812 . f
Proposition Iy . By the severity of the liawsj and the discretionary power in judges * murders m 'ay sometimes be commit * ted under the forms of taw . - 4 When a member of parlia * merit brings in a new hanging law , he begins with mentioning some injgry th ^ t may be done to private property , for which a mani'is nc ^ t yet liable tp be handed ; and then proposes , th ^ jgallows as the speci- * fie arid ihfalfijfcle means of < tore and prevention ,, 1 & \ xt trie bilL in
* Mfm , bavc quoted th ^ whole the paxa ^ raph , not b ^ qg ^ fc t to s ? V < Vf *\* * b © statement , refierring ; to our Proposition , soas to make it Iritclli ^ blc We have , besides , a pleasure m rrfaking knovtat the speedy cecurn to hie nat-i , a country M of to ^ k
aiannguiftheq a ma » aa Sir Jajmc ^ - intosh ^ whQ , we fopdiy Crusty will devote hi * extraordinary talents' and - bVilliant eloqtidnce to the cause of civil atidfdl ^ iow 5 libflirtjr , jrfulanthropy and r « ibrmk ¦ . I , .. . . Xa »
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A Collection of Fact * relating to Criminal Law * & $ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/21/
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