A Return of the Number of Persons charged with Criminal Offences, who were committed to the different Gaols in England and Wales, for Trial, at the Assizes and Sessions held for the several Counties and Places therein, in the Year 1811; and the Total for Seven Years, from 1305 to 1811, both inclusive-shewing the Number thereof who were convicted, and their Sentences; the Number acquitted; and the Number against whom no Bills were found, and who were not prosecuted; also, the Number of Persons executed, who received Sentence of Death. Imprisonment, and severally to be whipped, fined, pilloried, 3,163 20,147 404 2,628 *Of whom were executed 39 393 NATIONAL DEBT. An Account of the Reduction of the National Debt, from the 1st of August, 1786, to the 1st of February, 1812: 1812. Bank 13 p. ct./3 p. ci Stock B.red. cons. P. et 15 p. et 15 p. ct. Long | India India | S. Sea cons. Navy. 1797. Apn. Stock. Bonds. Stock. Prices of STOCKS for 1812. N.B. The highest and lowest Prices of each STOCK in the course of each Month are set down in that Month. VEW FORK SOCIETY LIBRARY BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS. OBSERVATIONS ON THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER OF JUNIUS. [FROM THE PRELIMINARY ESSAY, ACCOMPANYING WOODFALL'S EDITION OF HIS LETTERS AND CONFIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE.] BUT OUT, after all, who or what was Junius? this shadow of a name, who thus shot his unerring arrows from an impenetrable concealment, and punished without being perceived? The question is natural; and it has been repeated almost without intermission, from the appearance of his first letter. It is not unnatural, moreover, from the pertinacity with which he has at all times eluded discovery, that the vanity of many political writers of inferior talents should have induced them to lay an indirect claim to his letters, and especially after the danger of responsibility had considerably ceased. Yet while the editor of the present impression does not undertake to communicate the real name of Junius, he pledges himself to prove, from incontrovertible evidence, afforded by the private letters of Junius himself during the period in question, in connexion with other documents, that not one of these pretenders has ever had the smallest right to the distinction which some of them have ardently Coreted. "These private and confidential letters, addressed to the late Mr. Woodfall, are now for the first time made public by his son, who is in possession of the author's autographs; and from the various facts and anecdotes they disclose, not only in relation to this extraordinary character, but to other characters as well, they cannot fail of being highly interesting to the political world. To have published these letters at an earlier period would have been a gross breach of trust and decorum; the term of trust, however, seems at length to have expired; most of the parties have paid the debt of nature; and should any be yet liv. ing, the length of time which has since elapsed has so completely blunted the asperity of the strictures they contain, that they could scarcely object to so remote a publication of them. Junius, in the career of his activity, was the man of the people; and when the former can receive no injury from the disclosure, the latter have certainly a claim to every information that can be communicated concerning them. |