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Show 478 ACTS RELATING Part III. acf‘c‘. VTHAT. criminally, than the criminal law ofEng- priibnment. land attributes to it. nity will be finer i hlanflaughter, for infiance, {hall not be called innrther, nor i ‘ .we, than of a yleheian s the mode of inc." fliall mifprilion of trealbn lwell into trea- ‘Uc wrong, and brings an fon. But to have made this claufe as bene- ficial t0 the fubjee‘c as it leems probable the legillature intended to make it, ai‘tion as in at cm injury. An Englnh- man takes it in his head to write agznnll; dilative council that undchn- aét {hould have defined what ailions were a Alix]. to be confidered as private, what as jazz/£276 Canadian noble takes it into his head to " lifted for a crime, ayary may Jerhaps {ind the hippoled lll)Cl to be no or at Kz'or‘t \ 'ill fend him to." a {ltort 1,"or, v ‘*No, {a 's the counltn ‘ time to prilon. attempt to feduce the wife, or the daugh- have not this Canaille of L1 jury 4 ter of a peafant, the pealhnt comes in. 1 feelings of honour.-l w'll in: ne man for hears the perfuafirc tongue urging his wife or daughter to dilhononr; fired with (lainzw‘es : that way i can throw him into pri‘fon for late. refentinent, he befiows on the culprit the But the molt exceptionable part of the chaf‘tifement he deferves. \Vhat is the noble to do? If he indicts him for an af- l conceive it iznpoihble to .mf ‘ ' defend, that which tlefiroys, or at cm): fault, fuch is thelenity ofthe Englilh law, fuch are the prejudices of a jury, tl at the man will be let off without any punii'hment, , V 1 reial , 1 1 I ‘ Leneii may be uled to defiroy, all tne ._ ., 7 .x wrongs; but no fuch definition is there. See, therefore, how the cafe Hands now: a or at mofl for a trifling line, or a thort int- C , . . , .are oce it, ro the confli ' " piccc '4ions Whlcn proni tution ofthe legillative conned. The c" I! -n 171'th uncut. If the Englifli~ ' |