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    Under this title are included various tracts on the subject of the mo > l offensive and inhuman practices connected with Idolatry in India . That such practices exist is known to every educated person in this country ; but that they do still exist is an evidence that their nature and extent are not properly understood ; and those , therefore , who , like Mr . Peggs , furnish us with 3 faithful representation of facts on which to ground our efforts for the amelioration of the state of the Hindoos , deserve the thanks , not of India alone , but of every friend of humanity in the country which governs India .

    The details which are presented in the volume before us are full of a heartsickening interest ; and if it be indeed true that an enormous sacrifice of human life is encouraged , and a fearful amount of human misery augmented by supineness or mistake on the part of the British government in India , it is high time that every one should bestir himself to find a remedy for evils of such magnitude , and to do his part to remove a reproach , as odious as it is deserved , from the reputation of his country . We have all heard from

    our childhood of the practice of the Suttee in India : in our writings it serves as the commonest illustration of the evils of superstition ; it is a theme of Reclamation at our public meetings ; our tract societies make use of it lo point out the blessings of a pure religion ; it serves to excite a painful curiosity and an eager horror in the minds of children when the tale circulates round the winter ' s hearth ; but this knowledge of the fact appears to have done little or no good . A few missionaries have urged and re-urged the

    expediency of abolishing the practice , and have declared their conviction of the ease with which the abolition might be effected . A few residents and trayellers in India have described their horror on witnessing the sacrifice . Some discussions have taken place in the Court of Directors at home , and in the Executive Council abroad ; and a very few petitions have been presented to Parliament from towns in England : but no effectual measures have yet been taken even to ascertain the practicability of abolishing rites which

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    property . His manuscripts are left t 6 M . Frederic Soret and M . Jacob Duval , two of his grand-nephews . His death took place at Milan in September last , after a short and by no means painful illness : from that city his body , after being embalmed , was conveyed to Geneva , and was followed to the grave by a long train of sorrowing friends and fellow-citizens . The works of M . Durnont , rendered from Bentham , are , 1 . Traitcs de Legislation , Civile et P 6 nale . 3 vols . 1802 . 2 . Th ^ orie des Peines et des Recompenses . 2 vols . 1810 . 3 . Tactique des Assemblies Legislatives , suivies des Sophismes Politiques . 2 vols . 1818 . 4 . Trait 6 des Preuves Judiciares . 2 vols . 5 . Traite * de POrganization Judiciare , et de la Codification . 1 vol . And he also left behind a work of his own , called Observations upon the Penitentiary Prison .

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    830 India ' s Cries to British Humanity .

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    INDIA ' S CRIES TO BRITISH HUMANITY . *

    * India ' s Cries to British Humanity . By J . l ' cggs , late Missionary at Cuttuck , Orissa .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 830, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/14/