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Of course : how else should he know so well what its current contents displayed ? The author alludes to " its unremitting labours for months , towards ihe close of 1834 to damage the political character of Lord Brougham ; " and speaks , however ,
disapprovingly of ' the success with which its labours were crowned . " But was not this in a great measure the fault of Lord Brougham ? No man ever had a greater chance of maintaining all his popularity and increasing its extent , had he been thorough-going , and exercised the same energy in progression by which he had raised himself to power . The following anecdote , (?) not generally known , we believe , is both ludicrous and astounding .
" Dr Stoddart , now Sir John Stoddart , Governor (?) of Malta , conducted the Times for several years , ending in 1815 or 181 G , -when the extreme virulence of his attacks on Napoleon Bonaparte was such , that the proprietors saw the expediency of putting an end to his engagement Sa annoyed did Bonaparte , when in the zenith of his power , feel at some of Dr Stoddart ' s attacks , that he caused the question to be submitted to some of the leading counsel at the English bar , whether he could proqee # against the journal for various articles which he pronounced the grossest libels . "—VoL ii , pp . 21 , 22 .
Of the Morning Herald many handsome things are said , and some of them very justly , with reference to its benevolent spirit , " One very striking illustration of this has been afforded by . its conduct on the question of capital punishments . For years has it labour ^ with great zeal and ability—and laboured too with marked success—to
abate the rigour of our criminal jurisprudence . It has proved , times without number , and by a surpassing- variety of illustrations and of facts , that , putting' out of view the abstract question of the justice or humanity of our ctitlrinal laws , they are impolitic in the highest degree * having * onty increased the very crimes thoy were intended to repress * Happily the legislature is beginning to perceive , what is not only the dictate . of a sound philosophy , but is demonstrable by facts—that it is the certainty and not the severity of punishment that represses crime . Ere long-, there
is every reason to believe , our statute book will be purged of the bloody enactments which have for so many centuries stained its pages , ancL we shall have a criminal code more in accordance with the spirit of the Christian religion—the dictates of humanity—the claims of justice- —and the interests of a sound policy . "—Vol . ii , pp . 35 , 36 . To the position of the Morning Chronicle we thihk the
writer hardly does justice . He evidently takes a greater pleasure in something more positive tind " pronounced , * -ana for this \ i § commend him . Nevertheless , he pt ^ sses th ^ paper too slighting ly . The remarks ou the Morning Adverfeer ( is riot our critic in that quarter rather unreasonable \ n allowing us no " breathing t ^ me / ' and no variety ? " ) are np mom than a fair tribute to its strength , princi p le , and consistency . The Co « -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 707, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/55/
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