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Hoping that Fidelis will cordially receive this Jiving statement of Rational Christianity , in preference to his dead authority in his ' * old sermon , " I am , Sir , Your humble servant ,
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every year cut off m great numbers , and which might otherwise be of use to the kingdom- —But the worst part of this custom or institution is , that they have hitherto proved without effect , and have neither extinguished the humour and practice of huch crimes , nor lessened the number of such criminals amongst us . Nor is it indeed to be hoped or expect .
ed they ever should , in a nation whose known character is , to be more fearless of death , and dangers than any other , and more impatient of labour or of hardships /' His improved mode of treating criminals , which § ir W . Temple
presently suggests , discovers an utter inattention , even in this accomplished scholar and statesman , to the subject of mental discipline . He relies entirely on corporal sufferings and perpetual infamy to deter from crimes or to leform
criminals . Such is his proposal , p . 64 . * i € A liberty might at "feast be left to the judges and the ben £ h , according to the difference of
persons , crimes , and ctr £ iHn * stances , to inflict either deaili , "or some notorious mark , by slitting the nose , or such brands upori the cheeks , which can never be
effaced by time or art . And such persons to be condemned either to slavery in our plantations abroad , or labour in workhouses athprxte ; and this either for their lives , at a certain number of years ,
accosting to the degrees of their crime $ . " For the consideration of saifte such laws /* Sir W . Temple looked forward to iC some Parliament coo ) and undistempered from heats of faction and animosity of parties' * whose ** regards and debates " should turn upon ** public and
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Hanging not Punishment enough . 113 ¦> - - * . .. .
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* * Hanging not Punishment enoug h * " *
Jan , 29 , 1814 . Sin ,
I lately observed that a beneiiylent professor of the law , Mr , Basil Montagu , republished in 1812 , a small pamphlet , first ** ptinted " in * 1701 /'—entitled , ** ffaii ^ ing riot punishment enough for mimterers , highwaymen , and housebreakers , offered to the eonsideration of the two Houses of ParU&ment *'
From the title of this pamphlet it must , I apprehend , be designed to- oppose capital piiiiishments father qn the ground of policy than of religion or humanity . Sir W . Temple , in bis Miscellanea ,
3 d part , published in 1701 , soon after the author ' s death , expresses tire same opinion , as to robbers . In the Essay on Popular Discontents , the firn in that volume , P * 62 r he says , " I have often thought that some more effectual
Way might be found out , for Inventing or suppressing of com * rnon thefts or robberies , than those which are of common use among us . The sanguinary laws Upon these occasions , as tttey are 1101 of ancient date , so they seem
not to agree with the mildness and clenpency of our government ia tbe rest of its composition . Besides , they deprive us of so many subjects whose lives are
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/41/
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