Foreigners, when visiting...
Foreigners, wvhen visitiiig this-country, which so much1 boasts the humanity of its iawsf have beeii strck with astonishment at witnes.sing .he disgustinig spectacle sf-en or twelve men, womebI-. and chidrenj dragg6d throiph the metropolis, liniked and chained together, whioh is tie cus- iomary of c9llveyirg pmsona u ecb&rp o? cr!mi- Th~ .of.tcn 6rt ofi aUl re2noved iXi fetters fromi the vwathh iA se. tb.e police o'fflce, from thence to Clerkenwell pris6hiand aftervards, perhlps, to Ncwgate-.4 string ofthese unfortiziiatc beings is sometnes to be ren, ii hlie dxiddle of the diyjznoving along the line of streets from the police-. office, Tappling, towardsC trken*ll-a-distanie of nearly three- WilF. o56meof .tltic iadividuals, tlhus iron,d and publicly exposed in this degrading manner, are (it rnay be for the firt tinte) accused,of aibreach of the laws of their country.. 'It sometimes happens that a servant-maid, sus- pected of steating from lier Wnistress an article of trifling value) or a clerk clharged witlir embezzlinig thie property of his employer, is handcuffed to a-commoln prostitute, or ruf- f1an housebreaker, and marched througlh the streets like wilitazy deserters. It surely behoves tbe Magistrates to take meapuf.es for preventitig the feelings of the public being thus outraged, and also for sparing, as much as pos- sible, uiinecessary.degradation and pain to the wretched people who eay be brought iJito the liands of justice.