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    gat , Bahcr and Orixa >*— Who is tjiat , vvhose pale but manly face r ^ ddsns with a blush ? I think it i $ one of tke deputies from Epgland . " Sojme hsLv % fondly recollected

    tfc ^ design pf Henry on the as * swnbling of the present congress at Vienna , Yyith what just expectations of royal and imperial liberality , the fate of Poland and of Saxony will probably soon enable the public to determine . VERMICULUS .

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    Mr . Behham on < c Jewish SinoffzringsS * Essex House , Dec . 13 , 1814 . Sir ,

    I do not exactly see the foundation of my worthy friend Jeyians ' s alarm ( p . 707—710 ) , at a fact which I stated in a late publication , and which indeed his letter confirms , that ic atonements

    under the law were appointed only for sins of ignorance , or for cere - monial defects , never for volun * tary transgressions , except in two cases , Lev . vi . 2 . xix . 21 . ' * These

    two cases , to which I had referred , my worthy friend has produced at j engtJh . The first is the case of p reach of trust , aggravated by falsehood and perjury ; the penalty far which is restitution of the property detained , with an

    additiqn of one-fifth of the value by \ y # y of costs and damages to the plaintiff ; and a ram as a trespassrbffering , to make atonement for the offence , which , under the theocracy , might justly be considered as a fine to the crown : and

    upon these terms the offender was cleared . The second case was that ot the seduction of a betrothed female slaye ; the penalty annexed to vvhicli offence was , that both th& , parties ^ should be scourged ,

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    and that a ram should be brough t by the seduced , as sl trespass-of . fering , to make atonement , or in other words that the same fine should be paid as in the former case . No other laws , imposing atonements for voluntary offences are to be found in the Pentateuc h which contains the whole of the Mosaic code . Particular instances

    may indeed be alledged , but my worthy friend is not to learn that a single act does not constitute a general law . But in the first case my friend argues , that Cc these words appoint that atonement shall be made

    for lies , fraud , oppression , deceit , for seven or eight wilful breaches of the moral laws of God > and four of these laws are found inthe decalogue / ' But the law in question treats the case as a civil , aad

    not as a moral offence ; and at any rate my friend ' s principle would make precious work ia . a criminal code . A certain offence is visited by the law with a certain penalty ; but the offence in question is of great magnitude , it is a complication of crimes , and therefore- according

    to this new system , each of these subordinate offences is to be visited with the same punishment as the greater . My friend ' s principlesj if pursued to their consequences , would render him a very Draco in legislation .

    But my good friend adyMices another principle , which by ao means squares with our modern notions of criminal law ; he thinks that a statute , made expressly f ° the nunishment of one offend

    may , by construction , be extended to other cases , which it would neither be prudent nor necessary to specify , " and that priests m

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    754 Mr . Belsham on < f Jewish Sin-offerings . "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 754, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/26/