... month of November last, and he pleaded—Not Guilty. The circumstances which were understood to have accompanied the above crime had long been considered with extreme horror. Report had associated the prisoner with cannibals, and recollecting, as we did ...

... but the evidence was one cmanued string self-evident perjuries and prevarications, each witness contradicting his partner in crime such a manner, as to disgust one the most crowded and respectable Courts ever assembled. By whom these wretches were suborned ...

... duties for which they were that day assembled, he felt it incumbent upon him to make a few observations on the vast increase of crime, which the present calendar exhibited, although the interval between the present and the preceding Sessions was very short ...

... Miss '.Middleton, daughter of Mr. J. Middleton, of the former place. . Lately, at Knutsford, Mr. John M'right to Miss 3lary Crimes, both of diat town. Lately, at Prestwirh, Mr. Lees M'rigley, of Copster-hill, near Oldham, to Miss Jane Morton, Marsden. On ...

... aggravation of his disgrace, if not of his guilt. He acknowledged with shame, that was intoxicated the time committed this crime, and was his misfortune, when in that situation, not to know what he was about. lie called two witnesses to character. His ...

... wind. The auburn hair is braided soft, Upon thy snowy brow :— Why dost thou gaze me so oft I cannot follow now ! It would be crime,—a double death— To follow thy forbidden path. But let me press that hand again, T oft have pressed in love, When sauntering ...

... Chase, still continues tranquil in his deportment, but does not conversation ever betray idea that he will be convicted of the crime with which he is charged on the contrary, he has sometimes talked of what he shall if liberated. to this time there has been ...

... punishable If he was justified such a measure, why not call upon them to exempt themselves also from the intention to commit crimes which are visited by heavier penalties ? As much had been done already parliament ought to do, in order check the evil complained ...

... painful kind and has prevented much crime. certainly was spared the painful scene to which we refer ; because he was, mistake not, absent from that part of the country at the time; but instead of preventing crime. passion lor Silling Guns merely prevented ...

... reason to conclude that they were the most abandoned and flagitious mortals, who hesitated not at the perpetration of any crime accomplish their purposes. Even popish writers admit, that throne was ever filled with such monsters of immorality as the chair ...

... rarely practised, and game far more abundant on these manors than in places where strict sev* erity is used. Sacrilege —The crime of robbing churches appears be ot frequent occurrence on the Continent. Very recently all the church plate of the Cathedral ...

... government. To be literal, you must place religion and irreligion, virtue and profligacy, on the same level—you may attack actual crime, but you must on no account attack the vices that produce it you must destroy those feelings and laws of society which contribute ...