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    however , a feeling confined to the lower orders , and Wharton found it necessary to retire from the neighbourhood . It is material to observe that

    the state © f the country does not appear to have been such as to require , at that time , a peculiarly awful display of the power of the law . The question , then , upon this case is , whether the wholesome discipline of a few months *

    confinement would not have wrought such a change in the minds and habits of these unfortunate men , as to have rendered society perfectly secure from any repeated injurious attack . Nor can we hesitate , on a review of the

    circumstances , to decide that it would . It might not , perhaps , be unworthy the attention of those gentlemen who are so benevolent - ly engaged in endeavouring to introduce a more lenient system of punishments into our criminal

    code , to consider also how far it is desireable that the standing reward for , the conviction of highway robbers should continue ; and whether the offering of this bounty upon conviction ought not to be reserved for the detection and

    bringing to punishment of the more atrocious and dangerous offenders only . , April 79 181 % . m X .

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    Case of a fraudtfilent Ranker . < Hackney Feb . 17 , 1818 * I have real pleasure in noticing yoMr laudable endeavours to call the public attention to the subject

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    lence > and feeble as my assistance may be , I shall not fail to communicate any facts within ray knowledge which mayWtnd to the promotion of your object . f

    It has been justly remarked , that the severity of tht law wmch subject men to the forfeiture of lite for minor offences affords protection to the criminal , who is at . lowed to escape punishment

    altogether , rather than a conscientious and reflecting man will incur the awful responsibility of depriving a fellow creature of existence ; a : nd to shew that this is not an

    imaginary evil , I state the following fact which came under my immediate observation , wherein , indeed , I stood precisely in this situation , and however it is to be regretted that the character I shall describe

    is again let loose on society , I have never yet repented having followed the dictates of humanity , where , as it appeared to me , the punishment was not proportioned to the crime . The case 1 allude

    to was that of a bankrupt who had embezzled the property of his cre - ditors . . It will be unnecessary to go into a history of the deliberate scheme of villainy which the investigation , disclosed ; the proofs

    were , clear and decisive , and the man was committed to Newgate by the commissioners , with a pressing injunction to the assignees to conjmence a prosecution , urging the difficulty attending the detection of fraud in cases of

    bankiuptcy ^ 1 and ? th $ , opportunity which now offered of making a pubjlic example , i I The other assignee , ipy colleague , being a Quaker , wa 9 restricted t > by his pFofesKkwn from taking any part in a criminal proseciUiori ^ und . k consequently de <* volved < an- riie , ' eijther to call dew *

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    Case of , a fraudulent Banker * 2 &&

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/25/