89

PASTORET.

PUBLISHED IN THE YEAR 1790.

(Chap. xxi. Vol. 2.)

A LIST OF CAPITAL OFFENCES IN FRANCE, IN THE YEAR 1790.

BEHOLD a list of the crimes punishable by death, and even this does not comprehend the whole.

1. Enormous blasphemy.

2. Composing works against religion.

3. Or causing them to be written.

4. Or printing them.

5. Sacrilege joined to superstition and impiety.

6. Sacrilege with the profanation of sacred things.

7. Pulling down or destroying crosses and images.

8. Every act of scandal and impious sedition.

9. Heretics assembling with arms.

10. Heretical preaching.

11. Witchcraft and magic.

12. Regicide.

15. Outrage against the persons of the king's children.

14. Leagues and associations.

15. Enlisting Soldiers unlawfully.

17. Not disclosing a plot.

18. To parley with an enemy, without the consent of the commanders of the army.

19. Omitting to inform the commanders of a letter or message received from a prince, or nobleman belonging to the

enemy.

20. To levy troops without permission from the king. 21. Unlicensed assemblies under any pretence whatever.

22. To wear armour, carry arms, arquebuses, &c. not being

ordered into garrison, or on the king's service.

23. Screening or favoring those who have carried arms unlaw

25. Collecting arms for horse or foot soldiers.

26. Buying without permission, more powder, shot, or matches, than is wanted for the necessary defence of one's house. 27. Casting ordnance, or having it in possession without leave. 28. To fortify castles, or to seize on those already fortified.

29. Counterfeiting the current coin.

30. Circulating counterfeit coin, or introducing it into the

kingdom.

31. Clipping of coin.

32. Buying the clippings.

33. Coiners delivering Coin below the standard; too light, or im

perfect in other respects.

34. Receivers and paymasters, who knowingly distribute counterfeit money.

35. Bankers who fail to cut in the presence of the seller, the pieces of gold and silver coin which they have bought.

36. To carry more gold or silver out of the kingdom, than is necessary for the voyage.

37. Foreigners, or even natives, who deal in coin at a price above its value, if they buy it to export, or for the use of forgers.

38. Locksmiths, blacksmiths, and other workers in iron, who shall have made utensils or tools for coining, even when the intention is unknown to them.

39. Those who shall have engraved dies, and other instruments used in the fabrication of specie, without permission of the officers of the mint.

40. Carriers who knowingly convey the instruments used in coin

ing, without informing the solicitors-general or surveyors. 41. Clerks of the general and particular receivers' offices having the management of public affairs, who embezzle more than three thousand livres.

42. Treasurers, receivers, and other overseers, embezzling the public money.

43. Extortion, under certain circumstances.

44. To abuse and insult magistrates, officers, door-keepers, or

bailiffs in the execution of justice.

45. Receiving or concealing a person condemned to death.

46. Breaking prison in certain cases.

47. Wilful murder.

48. To associate with murderers, under any pretence whatever.

49. The plotting to kill, injure, or abuse any one, although it be

not carried into effect.

50. Highway robbery.

51. Theft with burglary.

52. House breaking.

53. Theft in the king's palaces, without any regard to the value

of the goods stolen.

54. Robbery in the Banks.

55. Robbers of a church and their accomplices, according to the

exigence of the case.

56. Those who associate with thieves.

57. Those who conceal or receive stolen goods, when the theft

deserves death.

58. Nightly robbery with arms.

59. Sometimes nightly robbery with ladders.

60. Robbery by pick-locks.

61. The crime of improperly detaining a person, according to cir

cumstances.

62. A galley slave mutilating himself.

63. Taking poison whether it prove mortal or not.

64. To make or distribute poisonous compositions.

65. To know that they have been asked for or given, and not to

inform the solicitor general, or his deputy, according to circumstances and the exigences of the case.

66. Duelling.

67. Arson.

68. Parricide.

69. Incest in a direct line.

70. Incest, by ecclesiastical law.

71. Rape.

72. Forcible abduction.

73. Seduction, according to circumstances.

74. Confining young women by means of Lettres de cachet, in order to marry or cause them to be married without consent of parents or guardians.

75. Noblemen who force their subjects, or others, to give their daughters or wards in marriage.

76. Concealment of pregnancy.

77. Procuring abortion.

78. Unnatural crime.

79. A person taking the law into his own hands.

80. Fraudulent bankruptcy.

81. Monopoly of corn.

82. Breach of public trust.

83. Forging letters and seals of chancery.

84. Forging the signature of secretaries of state.

85. Counterfeiting, forging, or altering edicts, royal records, or

other royal or public papers.

86. Counterfeiting, or altering papers relating to receivers, treasurers, &c. royal or public.

87. Farmers of the revenue, of whatever condition, who forge receipts, discharges, accounts, and inventories.

88. Forging a duplicate of a deed.

89. To cast, copy, or counterfeit the marks of the towns, in which there is a magistrate, or of the revenue of farmers. 90. Applying the counter mark in any manner to gold or silver goods, which have not been taken to be assayed and marked at the public office.

91. Bearing false witness, which shall endanger the life of the accused.

92. Smuggling tobacco, printed clothes, &c. by five or more armed persons in company.

93. Officers holding correspondence with smugglers.

94. Smugglers forcing doors, and guard houses of revenue

officers.

95. Revenue officers convicted of having been unlicensed salt merchants, or of having participated in the trade.

96. Dealing in salt by the officers of the warehouses or depots. 97. Smuggling salt by five armed persons in company.

98. To print, sell, or circulate books, or new compositions, without permission granted in the manner prescribed.

99. The master convicted of having delivered up his ship to the enemy.

100. The master convicted of having maliciously wrecked or destroyed his vessel.

101. Mariners or passengers in vessels who cause any difficulty in

the exercise of the catholic religion.

102. A ship writer who makes false entries in his register.

103. A pilot who maliciously causes the destruction of a vessel.

104. A coast pilot guilty of the same crime.

105. Wasting a ship's liquors, or destroying bread, by seamen or