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Bills are before the House of Commons , brought in by Mr . Sturges Bourne , for amending' the Poor laws . It is proposed that three years' * residence in a parish shall give a settlement ; in the case of domestic ¦ fc . w « « . . a _ . . ^^ ** « u
servants , residence with their masters days . Two justices to determine disputes . To prevent misapplication of Poor * Rates to the payment of wages , relief not to be given to paupers oil account of children , but the children above two to be taken and set to work , and supported by the parish .
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Subjects . The pamphlet , does not display great talent , but it is written with some smartness . It consists of less than 50 pages , but the bookseller ( Ridgway ) has thought it decorous to put upon it the _ .. « . m- « -m . 1 ¦ % * ^ _ ' a . T -
price of half-a crown . If it were written to be read , this effectually defeats the author's desig'n . His lordship has in the press , a work of more consequence , * f The Life of William , Lord Russell , with some Accouutof the Times in which he lived , "
We look to this publication with some eagerness : it will probably contain explanations , supplied by papers in the possession of the Bedford family , of some parts of the conduct of the patriots in the reign of Charles II . that are little understood .
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£ 76 Intelligencers—Literary . 1
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An official return , printed by order of the House of Commons , presents in one riew au accurate representation of the State of Crimes made capital by the law , in the several years , from the year 1805 to the year 1818 inclusive . From this it appears , that the total number of persons
convicted of burglary in the interval , was 1 , 874 , of whom 199 were executed 3 of larceny in dwelling-houses to the value of forty shillings , 1 , 119 , of whom 17 were executed ; of forgery , 501 , of whom 207 were executed ; horse-stealing , 852 , of whom 35 were executed ; house-breaking in the daytime , and larceny , 761 , of whom
17 were executed ; of murder , 229 , of whom 202 were executed ; robbery on the person , the highway and other places , 848 , of whom 118 were executed ; sheepstealing , 896 , of whom 43 were executed ; making , with various other offences of a capital nature within said interval , a gross total of } convicted , 8 , 430 , of whom 1 , 035 were executed-
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A Bill of Mr . Brand ' s is before the House of Commons for amending- the Game Laws : this repeals former acts with regard to qualification , bliving- and selling game ,
&c , declares game the property of the possessor of the land , allows the lessor of the land to reserve the property , and gives a right to persons entitled by possession of land or by reservation , &c , to authorize any person to kill the game ; but no person to destroy game by snare or net .
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Literary . Loud John Russell has lately published A Letter to Lord Holland on Foreign Politics , in which he maintains the old Whig notions of the balance of power , and accuses Lord Castlereagh of having entered into engagements that are in themselves
nugatory or fatal to the liberty , independence and peace of the European States .. He considers that the treaties of Vienna * nd Aix-la-Chapelle , afford no security Against War , and predicts that the next war will be completely revolutionary . The title of his pamphlet might have been ( in the ^ words frith which , it conclude * , ) Meetings of Sovereigns and Auctions of
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Under the patronage of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent , Mr . Bellamy is proceeding with his u New Translation of the Bible . " Part II ., containing the Books of Exodus , Leviticus and part of Numbers , has just appeared . The author '
seems not daunted by the Quarterly Review 9 to which he has published a Reply . It is said that the attempt in that ttMnfck terial journal to dictate to the literary taite of the personage above-named , only produced an order for an additional ttuinber of copies to Carlton House .
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A new version of some of the Epistles of St . Paul and of the Epistle of St . James , is about to be submitted to the Public in a cheap and unostentatious form . The
translator has had Campbell in view as to the arrangement and unanner of the work , and much care and pains have been bestowed to exhibit the sense of the Apostles , faithfully , clearly , and according to the present idiom of our language .
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A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII ., is announced for publication in May , in 2 vols . 4 to ., by the Rev . John Lincard , author of the " Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church . ' *
This gentleman is a respectable and learned Roman Catholic priest , who , in 1815 , published some acute Strictures on Dr . ( now Bishop ]) Marshs ' " Comparative View of the Churches of England and Rome . " He has compiled the History , he says , without any referenceto modern historians . " The author religiously confined his researches to the original , and whenever it was
possible , to contemporary writers . " This must be allowed to be a great recommendation of his work ; it remains to he seen whether , in thus guarding- himself against modern prejudices , he has been equally watchful against those more ancient ones' to which his profession seems peculiarly liable .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/64/
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