Report of the Committee: With an Appendix, Tom 7

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1827

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Strona 128 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Strona 58 - This he compiled for the use of the court-baron, hundred and county court, the court-leet and sheriff's tourn; tribunals, which he established, for the trial of all causes, civil and criminal, in the very districts wherein the complaint arose all of them subject, however, to be inspected, controlled and kept within the bounds of the universal or common law, by the...
Strona 4 - For example, what a lamentable case it is to see so many Christian men and women strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows ? insomuch, as if in a large field a man might see together all the Christians that, but in one year, throughout England, came to that untimely and ignominious death — if there were any spark of grace or charity in him, it would make his heart to bleed for pity and compassion.
Strona 38 - Prisons, and shall further examine into the Conduct of the respective Officers, and the Treatment and Conduct of the Prisoners, the Means of setting them to work, the Amount of their Earnings, and the Expenses attending the Prison, and...
Strona 82 - Females ; and that in every County Gaol or House of Correction the most effectual Means shall be adopted for the Security, Classification, Health, Inspection, Employment and Religious and Moral Instruction of the Prisoners; the Building shall be so constructed or applied, and the Keepers...
Strona ii - The institution is under the management of Governors, who are constituted by a donation of ten guineas, or an annual subscription of one guinea. By means of a liberal subscription they have been enabled to purchase a piece of ground, and to build a spacious school-room, calculated to hold 300 boys ; and by the aid of a donation of £150.
Strona 336 - I find no difficulty now in checking the young offenders. Before the establishment of the House of Refuge, a lad of fourteen or fifteen years of age might have been arrested and tried four or five times for petty thefts, and it was hardly ever that a jury would convict. They would rather that the. culprit acknowledged to be guilty should be discharged altogether, than be confined in the prisons of the state or county.
Strona 10 - Throughout the year they are obliged to be in bed by eight o'clock, and are never permitted to be absent from school, except on Saturdays and...
Strona 114 - ... while in the last year the number of prisoners who passed through Newgate, above the age of twenty-one, was one thousand two hundred and sixty-two, those under that age amounted to one thousand six hundred and sixty-nine. It is also lamentable to state that, in the House of Correction, at Brixton, more than one half the number of prisoners were lately found to be under twenty-one. The causes of the evil may be briefly told. Nothing tends more powerfully than pauperism to weaken the natural affections...
Strona 32 - CIVIL LIBERTY is the not being restrained by any law, but what conduces in a greater degree to the public welfare.

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