Prosecutors, evil of allowing them a discretionary power, 72. Re-
pelled from fear of expense, 90. Never found unwilling to prose-
cute by Lord Ellenborough, 268. Juries and Judges, the notion
of their lenity ridiculed by Mr. Frankland, 46.

Prosecution, not a pleasure of life, 47

Prosecutions, increased, 11. Increased from increase of Grime, 16
Public Opinion in favor of Humanity, 131

Punishment, how operating in preventing Crime, 394. Of Death,
ought in all cases to be avoided, 135. Of death only twice in-
flicted in Amsterdam, during several years, 136. Of Death, not
inflicted during the Recordership of Sir James Mackintosh, 151.
Of Hanging, considered, 222. Of Strangling, 223. Of Be-
heading, ib. Capital, with Aggravation, considered, 224. Of
Crucifixion, ib. Of Death, examined by Bentham, 229.
Capital, its Advantages, 232. Its Defects, ib. Right of, 298.
Of Death, considered by Pinel in a Prize Essay, 1780, 308.
Discretionary, erroneous, 36

Punishment and Crime, disproportion, 77. Proportioned, 276.

9

Queries respecting Capital Punishment, from an American Paper, 156
Quotation from Dr. Johnson, 6

Racine, 388

R

Radical Defects of the Criminal Code, 281

Rambler, Note from, 143

Real motives for non-appearance of Witnesses, 47

Reasoning of Prosecutors and Criminals ridiculed by Mr. Frank-
land, 45

Received ideas of guilt unsettled by reform of Penal Law asserted by
Mr. Frankland, 31

Recorder, Mr. never found persons unwilling to prosecute or jurors
to convict, 54, 57. Common Serjeant, averse to amelioration of
the Penal Law, 104

Redesdale, 181

Reformed Highwayman, Account of, by Dr. Lettsome, 251. By
Rowland Hill, 257

Reformation of Prisoners, 369

Remarkable Reply of an Irishman, 244

Report of Five Capital Punishment Bills presented by Sir Samuel
Romilly, 123. Of the Board of Inspectors of the Philadelphia
Prisons, 284

Reprint of Pamphlet entitled Hanging not Punishment enough, 197
Resentment, 382. Its irregular tendency, 393
Restrictions of Governor, 371

Return of number of Convicts in 5 years, 86

Revenue Laws, had 95 Offences punishable with Death, 281. As
revised, only 25 instead of 95 Offences punishable with Death, ib.

Right of Punishment considered, 298. Of Society to punish with:
Death, 304

Robberies increased by the Privately Stealing Bill, 53

Romilly, Sir Samuel, 3, 93, 120. Notice of Motion respecting
Penitentiary Houses, 2. Notice of Motion respecting Capital.
Punishments, ib. Incautious in persevering in his plans, 4. Ob-
stinate in persevering, ib. Proposes Improvements not from vi-
sionary benevolence, 5. Not obstinate in persevering, ib. Not
hasty in proposing Improvements, ib.

Rowland Hill, Interesting Anecdote of his Servant, 257

Russian Code, Extract from, 195

Ryder, Mr. Secretary, opposes the Bills, 123

S.

Scare-crow, Simile, applied to the Reasoning against the Bill, 268
School of Reform Prisons in Philadelphia, 286
Schools for teaching Vice, English Prisons, 276-
Scotch Execution, described by Whitfield, 252
Second Reading of Bill in House of Lords, 265.

Of the Canal and
Navigable River Bill, 120. Of the Bleaching Ground Bill, 26.
Of the Bleaching Bill, 121

Sedentary and Active Employment ought to be mixed in Gaols, 352
Senior Wranglers in Crime, 59

Sentence of Death, pronounced as a mere form, 83, Pronounced,
not intended to be executed, 69

Sentiments of Magistrates, 16

Separation of Prisoners into Classes, 346
Servants, robbing their Masters, 51

Sermon by Dr. Dodd, Capital Punishment inconsistent with Chris-
tianity, &c. 183

Severe Law-Rome declining, 290. Against Pilferers-lenient
Laws against Adultery, 305

Severe Laws, petitioned against by Bleachers, 265. Passed on the
spur of the occasion, 96

Severe Punishment, Criminals calculate upon escaping, 280. The
Parent of Pusillanimity, 289. Hostile to the Prosperity of a Na-
tion, ib.

Severity less effective than certain, 266. Proper degree of, for Pe-
nitentiary Houses, 337. Necessary where certainty cannot be
had, 36. Of Punishment necessary to deter Offenders, 8

Sexes, Separation of in Panopticon, 345

Shaftsbury, 386

Shameful Suspicion that Judges love Power, repelled by Lord Ellen-
borough, 269

Sheep-stealing, often from Hunger, 278, As a trade, ib.
Sheridan, Mr. 183

Shocking circumstances of an Execution at Lincoln, 259.
an Execution, 260. Attending an Execution in Cheshire, 262

Of

Shoplifting Bill, to alter punishment of Death for Shoplifting passed
the Commons, 4. And Canal Bills, their tendency, 8

Siiver, Case of, cited, 319

Simile of a Scare-Crow, 268

Sir James Mackintosh, his Speech, 146
Sir John Anstruther, 63

Sir John Newport, 19, 25, 125
Sir Samuel Romilly, 11, 26, 28,
raged by common obstacles, 5.
understood, misrepresented, ib.
Capital Punishment Bills, 123.

93, 120, 123.

Not to be discou-
Calculating upon resistance mis-
Presented the Report of Five
His Character, 132

Situation of a Criminal meditating a Crime, 35

Small Proportion of Convicts who actually suffer Death, 80

Solicitor General, 14

Sound Morals and Wise Laws inseparably connected, 71
Spanish Auto-de-fe, 250

Speculative Prejudices, 266

Speculations of Thieves upon Sir S. Romilly's Bill, recounted by
Mr. Frankland, 32

Speech of Lord Chancellor, 277

Of the Attorney General, 132

Of Mr. Abercrombie, 83

Of Mr. Frankland, upon the Bill for Amendment of Penal
Law, 26

Of Mr. Herbert, 76

Of Sir John Anstruther, 63

Of Sir John Newport in favour of Bills, 125

Of Lord George Grenville, 77

Of Mr. Macdonald, 72

Of Mr. Morris, 82

Of Mr. Perceval, 88

Of Sir S. Romilly, 93

Of Mr. Whitbread, 128

Of Mr. Wilberforce, 124

Of Mr. Wynne, 137

Stabbing, as practised by the Portuguese, 145

State Trials, Preface to, by Emlyn, 301

Stealing in Dwelling-houses, 1800 Convictions, One Execution, 267
Strangling considered, 223

Suicide, a proof that fear of Death is not the most powerful Pas-
sion, 396

Sunday Instruction of Prisoners, 358

Superintendence, the only check in Gaols, 326. By one Per-
son, 372

Suspicion that Judges love Power, repelled by Lord Ellenbo
rough, 269

Sydney, Lord, 181

System of Robbing ripening, 51

T.

Taylor, Bishop, 382

Temporary Penalties made permanent, 64

Ten-pound Note found on the Thief, verdict 30 Shillings, 267
Terror magnified by Obscurity, 49

That Judges are fond of Power, 270

The Act for Privately Stealing, its effect in increasing Offences, 53
Thieves, waiting to see the result of Sir S. Romilly's Bills, 32. Have
their Attorney-general, Solicitors, &c. 50. Study the Law of Evi-
dence, 50. Fond of visiting their Transported Friends, 50. Not
able to calculate upon the Penalty of robbing Waggons, 51
Tract on the Criminal Law, by Grose, 295. To deter from Vice-
to prevent the Commission of Offences-to preserve Health and
Cleanliness-to hinder Escape-to supply Instruction-to provide
Subsistence to check inferior Agents-to check the Governor-to
strict Economy, 336

Trades practised by the Prisoners in Philadelphia, 285

Transportation Periods, 2. Time between Conviction and Embark-
ation, 2. Not terrible to Young Minds, 49

Transports to Botany Bay, Ships sailing during the Debate, 3.
Botany Bay, 3

Trial of John Meakings, quoted by Sir S. Romilly, 98

Trust, management of the Poor by, 339

Truth ever assailed by Commnon-place Declamation, 128

Turnpike Bills better attended than Capital Punishment Bills, 273
Two Executions only in Amsterdam during several Years, 136

Two Hundred Capital Offences on the Statute Book, 64

То

Two Modes only of Legislation asserted by Lord Ellenborough, com-
ment on, by Lord Lauderdale, 273

Uncertainty of Evidence, 238

U.

Utopian Perfection denied by Mr. Frankland, 31

V.

Valentinian, his Notion of Capital Punishment, 224

Valley of Oaks at Bolton, 31

Vanity of Mr. Dumont's expectations considered by Mr. Frankland,

40

Verdict of 39 Shillings when a Ten-pound Note was found on the
Thief, 267. Of Jury to save a Boy's Life, 296

Vice taught in the English Prisons, 276

W.

Wakefield, Gilbert, extract from, 142

Waggons not robbed, because the Penalty is doubtful, 51

Well-Being of the Country best advanced by Improvement of Crimi-

nal Law, 5

West Indies, horrid Punishment, 227

Whitbread, Mr. 128

Whitfield's Account of Scotch Execution, 252

Wilberforce, Mr. 124, 181

Wild Beasts employed as Executioners, 224

Wilson, Judge, his Charge to the Grand Jury of Maryland, 287
Windham, Mr. Note respecting, 41

Wise Laws and Sound Morals inseparably connected, 71

Witnesses, their real Motives for not appearing, 47. Juries, Prosé-
cutors, and Judges, not influenced by the Severity of Law, 48.
Never actuated by common Humanity, 269

Wynne, Mr. his Speech, 137

Warner's Life of Sir Thomas More, 294

> York Herald, Letter in, 957

Y.

Yorkshire, account of Highway Robbery there, 143

Young Minds love Reform, 32.
ation, 49

Not deterred by fear of Transport-

J. M'Creery, Printer,
Black-Horse Court, London.