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sent . Oflfeneea Qf all kinds , are / A ^ easily pc ^ rp ^ rated » and as easily gfogfet detection ^ ip such neighbourhoods op * portumi ]^ ^ f < X ) inbination and ca&Hj& ~ racy amftmiished in abundance . 2 # *~ tker the ? iSRa and the secret violaters of
the laws rs&soit , from every quarter , as to fae spot most favourable to their base designs , and to their shelter from the ^ asp of justice . There bad example ^ operates with a force corresponding to the wide and diversified field in which it ranges : and as in the
human body the vital fluid issues from the heart and comes back to it again , so the capital of a nation , or the chief town of a manufacturing district , is usually both the fountain and the receptacle of crime .
Mr . Eardley-Wilmot justly ^ serves , ( pp . 5 , 6 , ) that " the arts , sciences and commerce extend into such unlookedfor and distant regions , and require such complicated safeguards from their commencement to the last stage of their career , that offences are created
<* nd multiplied almost without number . " The temptations to crime supplied by great cities and populous and manufacturing towns , must not be dismissed before we have noticed the
inability of the public to distinguish the marks of the most aggravated of the frauds by whiqh it suffers . Hence we can explain the prevalence of one species of offences . The fabrication of a spurious paper-currency , occasions a waste and sacrifice of life by which the
feelings of the enlightened patriot cannot fail to be harrowed : the crime abounds in proportion to the ease with which it can be perpetrated ; and a remedy p % tl ^ ; # pil has long been needed , a ^ id of lat e zealously attempted . To diminish aiul , if possible , to remove the facility ^ f executing such forgeries , is aa ^ ong the first of national
obligations ; whiU ? the neglect of it is a national reproach and vice of no com-¦; > QfWwE ^«»»' fer- 8 om # ymm iPfurt , ^^ J b ^ n ^ i ^^ ij . Whe » pence visit ** i is * ftfteq m iwioNalty tong m < l qwotftiL * y « r > mw mmw& * $ fi *<*<} # * < vm& $ tQ fev , % Ha ^<^ ustomed el \ a ^ nel 9 » > ; # > # Jfsftv ! p ? VT nf ;^ ^ y * p * i' ^ m !* , < ^ yflt-jf » JPs £ ffW ^ rTnP i T' ^ wW ^''' W ^^ w ^ K ^^ Tflyj ff ^ P ^> fr ^ f / w ^^^ t ^* ^ ^ - '
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sometimes deranged by sw& ra ^ aitwtes ^ | Jowe ver , we caaaot injustice reason from -mw and , extr ^ ordiiiary carei ^^ iK ^ l ^ a more regul ^ troin of things ; although it should l > e observedthat the effect will ip s ^ me *¦ % j 1
, - - — ^ 9 . 'T ^ - ^•^— -mr ^ v- " — - «^^ W v w- ^^^ n ^ - if * ^ ** Jw *»* ¦ degree survive the cause , aad that tl ^ crimes of which we especially f tewaii the progress are in their nature public , and obtrude themselves upon our eyes —while the happy influence of national calamity on gold minds is , for the
most part , limited to scenes which shuii the notice of mankind . War , be it never forgotten , has no favourable aspect on the morals qf u people . If a man has for years been familiarized to intelligence of the loss of life and the seizure of prap ^ rty in
fields of battle , he must have been well disciplined and instructed by Religion should he be not more indifferent than he once was to the lives and property of his neighbours . In this view , wa % it may be feared , does greater mischief to the multitudes who know its horrors
only from report , and who forget them in its triumphs , than to those who , witness , or spread , or experience , its devastations . At least it must be granted , that times of public calamity have always added to the number < xf transgressors of the laws , by rendering not a few persons desperate and hardened . ,,
With some reluctance we toudtt 5 wi another cause of the increase of crime : thiis is the want < of definite > td&Urprti- * portioned , summary and corrective punishments . Punishment defeat ^ f&d legitimate ends if it be indiscrimbM ; and excessively severe : ojpl the contrary , it will terrify , it wiSltestrain ^ M it be certain and impartial . What csp
we think Qf the penalty of death , annexed as it is to a very long catalogue of specific crimea , and in many , many hundreds of individual eases actually awar ^ MP ^ t *** ^ 0 vast majority o&
them nevei * executed , because even the general infliction of it would be rigorous beyond endurance , would shock ^ e ^ y puWip as wefl w privmifef WiS ^ W ^^ mwfcy an 4 justice > -, 0 ^ MB (^ ments , w ^ acjmit , do m&mmflj ^^ in thfe fcountiy as they mMm **
of a centoiy u $ m yet B «| ff « iScy , fe ^ tS ^^^^^ K ^^^^^^^^^
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Re $ ie *»* < ^ B&Uey ~ iyiytoo ? & Lett ^ m the Inweuse * f Crime in gmerak 4 \ %
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/37/
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