Capital Offences, two hundred on the Statute Book, 64. Chro- Of punishment examin- ed, 266. Of punishment, 234, 292. Of punishment ensured Change, pleasant to young minds, 32 Character of Sir S. Romilly, 132 Children and relatives involved in the punishment of criminals in Chinese legislator forgetful of freedom, 39. Penal code consider- Chancellor, Lord, 277. Induced to vote against Bills by the Judges, Cheshire, shocking circumstance attending an execution there, 263 Chillingworth, his opinion on capital punishment, 142 Christians thrown to wild beasts, 224 Chronological list of capital offences, 397 Cleanliness of prisoners, 355 Clergy, their case of the prisoners in Philadelphia, 285 Cicero, 380 Committals and Trials for five years, their disproportion, 86 Common Serjeant and Recorder, their opinion in opposition to John- Comparison between capital punishment and other punishment, 242 Contract for managing the poor, 338 Copy of a Tract in the London Institution, printed 1652, 428. Of Convicts, number of, actually tried in five years, 86 Contempt of death, Interesting Anecdote from Mercier, 22 Convictions increased, 11. Increased by mitigating severe law, 8. Consequences of disproportion between crime and offence, 65 Crime, causes of, considered, 113. Caused by want of educa Criminal, hung up upon a hook in the West Indies, 227. When Criminal Law, improvement of, best advancing the welfare of a Crucifixion as a mode of punishment, 224 Cruel Laws, do men love them, 373. Remarks on, by Eden, ib. Cruelty of Valentinian, 224 Cry against a crying sin, 1652, 428. Of Jacobinism, stated by Lord ment, 78 Curious argument why the Bills should not be altered, 104 D. Danger of Reform feared by Mr. Frankland, 31. Of altering Settled Dead-Letter, Laws considered such, from their improper Severity, Death, Sentence of, provisional, when not meant to be enforced, 83. Defect of Bankrupt Laws, 150 Defects of Capital Punishment, 233 Denial that Witnesses have Common Humanity, 270. That passing Discretionary Punishment erroneous, 36. Power in Prosecutor, Evil Disproportion of Crime and Punishment, its consequences, 65. Of Convicts committed and tried in five years, 86. Of Punishment Dissent of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the pending Bills, 88 Dr. Paley's Works considered, 41. Johnson, quotation from, 66. more to be valued than Blackstone's, 272 Dumont, Mr. 95 Duty of the Fortunate to the Unfortunate, 5. Of the House to revise the Penal Code. 64. Of a Grand Jury, 293 Dwelling-House, Larceny in, Bill to alter Punishment of Death, ne- E. Economy, proper degree of, for Penitentiary Houses, 337 Edinburgh Review, highly praised by Mr. Frankland, 40 Edmund, King, Law of, 392 Education, want of, cause of Crime, 113. Of the Poor, prevention Edward III. Murder a Clergyable Offence, 89 Eighteen Hundred Convictions for Stealing in Dwelling Houses, one Ellenborough, Lord, never found Prosecutors unwilling to prosecute, Employments of the Prisoners in Philadelphia described, 285 Empentio, or Interposition to save a condemned Criminal, 146 Encrease of Prosecutions from encrease of Crime, 16 End of Law, prevention of Evil, 55 England, the Mildness of its Criminal Laws, 88. Letter from, 384 Error of Judges in the case of Calas, 319 Erskine, Lord, 279 Eulogium on Sir Samuel Romilly, by Mr. Whitbread, 130 Evening Employment of Prisoners, 360 Evil of Discretionary Power in Prosecutor, 72 Evidence, its Uncertainty, 238 Examination of Punishment of Death, by Bentham, 229 Excise, acts relating to, 253 Excitement, love of, cause of cruel Punishment, 374 Execution of a Person by Mistake at Gloucester, 135. Of Calas, 238. Executions in Amsterdam, two only during several Years, 136. For Exemptions, their frequency considered, 297 Exertions of Sir S. Romilly, 132 Extract from Law Maxims of Bacon, 7. From Mr. Bentham, 135. From Hume, 144. From a Letter of Cowper, 145. From a Let- F. False oath of jury to save a boy's life, 296 Fanciful and vain expectations of Mr. Dumont, 40 Fear of expense and loss of time, real motives for deterring prose- Felony without clergy, often adopted without argument or hesita- Ferney and Moutiers Travers, fit regions for Mr. Bentham's doc- Feudal Code of our ancestors, 79 First reading of Bill for Bleaching Ground, 26 Foolish pamphlet, commented upon by Lord Ellenborough, 270 Frankland Mr. begs to inquire if Sir Samuel Romilly understands Gambling with human life, 80 Gang of Robbers described, 140 - G. Gangs, increased since the repeal of the Statute, 54 Gaol fees, petition of the Inspector of the Philadelphia Prisons to have them abolished, 286 Gaoler, his cruelty, 351 Gibbetting alive on a hook in the West Indies, 227 Gilbert Wakefield, Extract from, 142 Gloucester, person executed there by mistake, 136 Governors of prisons, 371 Graduated punishments denied by Lord Ellenborough, 273 Grand Juries, its duties, 293 Grenville, Lord George, 77 Grose, his Tract on the Criminal Law, 295 H. Hanging not punishment enough, 197 Henry VII. Reign, murder clergyable offence, 89 Herbert, Mr. 76 2 Highwayman reformed by Dr. Lettsom, 251. Reformed by the Hobbes, 375 Holland, Lord, 265. His reply to Lord Ellenborough, 283 House of Lords, second reading of Bill, 265 Hume, Extract from, 144 I. Impaling, 224 Imperfect laws, better than unsettled opinions, 33 Improvement of Criminal Law, supported by the wisdom of the Increase of Convictions by mitigation of law, 8. Of Robberies Industry of the Prisoners in Philadelphia, 285 Inefficacy of Executions to lessen highway robberies, proved, 138 Inspection Houses, how to be constructed, 327 Interesting Anecdote, 83. Account of a highway robbery in York- Interests of justice and humanity, as important as Turnpike Bills, 273 Irishman's reply to the executioner, 244 J. Jack Wild, his Letter, 115 Japan, Laws of, 393 Johnson, Quotation from, 66 Wilson's Charge to the Jury of was inexperienced, 278 Judicial perjuries most loathsome, 131 Jury forsworn to save the life of a young boy, 296. Their verdict of Justice, its mockeries, 74. Of speedy punishment, 291. And |