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The Case Qjbvmu. Henry Cout. "The Injust...
fleet on the inconveniences and privations they would still have been forced to undergo had not able and enthusiastic men , at various times , un- dergone still greater in the pursuit of remedial m ~ ventions . Sic vos non vobis should be the motto of the British Patent-office . . ,. There cannot be a stronger case ia point than that of Mr . Henry Cobt . The saving he has effected to the country during the last sixty years Is computed at upwards of five hundred millions , Either our fathers and ourselves , therefore , would fcave been paying a considerably higher rate of taxes during the whole of the period aforesaid , or ¦ we and our children should have been burdened by an addition of rather more than one-half of the ITational Debt , had it not been for tlie genius and energy of this unfortunate gentleman . Let the grumblers against the Income-tax consider how they would feel towards the man -who should sud- denly relieve them of the -whole of it , and they ¦ will attain a suitable idea of the gTatitude it be- Loves them to display towards him who on the eve of our great Continental war enabled ns to dispense -with the purchase of foreign iron . The facts of this case are short , though , unhappily , not simple . They are , on the contrary , remarkably mysterious . But the injustice is sufficiently "broad and obvious without any ex- planation of the adroit piece of jugglery by which Mr . Gokt was ruined . Briefly then , prior to Mr * Cokt ' s invention , England was dependent upon Sweden arid Norway for her supply of wrought iron , arid the sum we paid for that commodity annually , before 1790 , was about a million and a half . The process by which we were enabled to manufacture our own iron need not be explained here ; suffice it to say that its immense value was immediately acknowledged by the trade , who con- tracted to pay Mr . Gokt ten shillings per ton on all which they manufactured by its aid . Here at once was an opulent fortune secured to him . Having , however , spent all his private means in perfecting the discovery , and being in want of money at the earlier stage of the proceedings , he entered into partnership with Mr . AdAivi Jeixtcoe , of the Navy Pay-office , London , and deposited with him his two patent-deeds and his contracts . Mr . Jeixicoe became a defaulter to the extent of 27 , 000 ? ., and the Government seized Mr . Cort's securities to cover his partner ' s defalcations . His contracts were at thisperiod bringing in a revenue of from 15 , 000 / . to 20 , 000 / . per annum . The Go- vernment kept them till the term for which they had been entered on had expired , namely , eleven years , and never accounted to Mr . Cort for a single farthing . But this is not all . Although they were in possession of assets capable of paying Mr . Jelmcoe ' s debt more than ten times over , they positively levied on Mr . Gout ' s goods for 25 , 000 / ., sold up bis entire stock , and reduced him to beggary . That this atrocity could have _ been perpetrated within the memory of men now living , is a most melancholy satire upon the force of public opinion and the liberty of the subject , and affords a most cogent argument for stimulating public alacrity in redressing it . The honesty of public men has not increased since the days of Dundas and the helplessness of private individuals does not seem to have , diminished . Baron be Bode was unable to obtain redress to the day nf his death , and had Sadi-eir been a step or tw higher on the political ladder he might still hav escaped detection . " Who knows what is going on behind the thick curtains of official life , or what new victims may even now bo falling within the toils of privileged cupidity ? All the compensation which Mr . Cokt and his family have ever obtained was a . pension of 200 a year to the former , granted by Mr Pitt , and pensions of twenty pounds each to his two un married daughters . His sole surviving son has also within the last six months received from Lord Palmerston a grant of fifty pounds a year . For a loss of 24 O , O 00 J ., incurred in saving to this country 500 , 000 , 000 / ., Mr . Cobt and liis famil have been compensated with something betw three and four thousand pounds , while tho who were at the same time tlic autliors of spoliation and embezzlers of public funds have been rewarded by titles and largo estates . To say after this that a petition is being pro pared , sounds almost like a mockery . As , ho ever , it is the regular and constitutional method of proceeding in such cases , wo most heart recommend all our readers to exert whatever amount of influence they may individually collectively own to forward its success .
famil notrenei confc must wr 0 D regai but with ] whic most will mad family—that is , the son and the two daughters— are now unfortunately in a position to make any relief acceptable . But the country must not ; be content mth merely relieving their necessities . It must make them equitable compensation for the wrong sustained by their father . It must not regard them only as deserving objects of charity , but as rightful claimants of property unjustly withheld from them . This is the true spirit in which to regard Mr- Cort ' s petition , and we most sincerely hope that no niggardly parsimony will be allowed to . influence the arrangements made for complying with it .
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Sib mus con pro * cere < £ ¦" Jjj * ^ b ^ gOi , pri but led rec ref b P ' ^ , ^ " fri sh go th bu . wj ot P * ai £ le - oi g < la h rj « , ° 1 , j o d e c a i i i j / . ! P - ( y een se tliis | - i wily or The REMEDIES FOR CRIME . ( To the Editor of the Leader ^ Sir , —The current history of the last few months must have startled even the most indifferent into the conviction of the rottenness of the system that has produced such fruits . The religion of forms and ceremonies of worldly show and profession lias been on its trial and found lamentably wanting , both as a means of saving the sinners or enlightening their dupes ; and there is great danger in the reaction that the real and true will get confounded Avith the false and spurious ; that , indignant at crime , we shallgo back to severity and harshness as its cure , instead of going deeper to its cause—the want of true religious principle altogether . Surely , Mr . Editor , nothing but this temporary madness for severity could have led a woman—arid a lady—to such cruelty as the case recently reported in the papers describes . I refer to the case of Mr . Christmas and Lady Olivia Sparrow . I am no weak admirer of aristocracy , and respect the laws that have no respect of persons : the magistrate could do only what he did do : but what shall we say of the lady who could thus rum and destroy for ever the prospects and happiness of a young man , and sink in misery parents , sisters , and friends , and for what?—the value of a few books that she was too rich to ever know the loss of . I am not going to defend crime , and have no sympathy with the criminal merely because he is a gentleman but I have sympathy with -what ought to "weigh with all of us . He is young , and the destruction of a whole life ' s happiness is an unjustly heavy penalty for one act . of folly and wrong . ¦ And when such a heavy punishment comes from a-friend and a woman , it may well read us a lesson , suggestive of the great and lamentable mistakes that can mis lead even those who should know better . What it but this flying to the law of man , and not the law of Goa , that fills our gaols with the young and rising generation ? If in this case of Mr . Christmas the : lady had stopped to consider something higher than i her own loss and vexation , had wished to save , not . ruin , were there not many private ways of correction ' . that would Lave left hope and peace still possible ' Surely there were , and as surely she would have tnecl ' them if the belief in dead forms of religion had shut out the belief in its real and saving mercy i most men and women ' s minds . This subject , M f Editor , is , I believe , deep at the root of the present 3 difficult question of crime , that the simple precepts e of mercy applied to the first offences of the young fi would do more to solve the difficulty than all the it formation schools , good as they are , that can be e up . But unless taken up by some one like yourself able to direct the public mind in the right direction [ a late events will only increase the evil , throwing / back to harsh and barbarous severity as its euro i instead of forwards into the wiser , calmer teaching Christ . You . Mr . Editor , must , know better than T can ( and my heart bleeds daily for the young l 18 creatures dragged mercilessly before the judgment ' " ¦ scat ) of how much crime is caused by this thought > less love of punishment and hasty belief in the law is sovereign cure for every ill , that throws so many ly our young men and women into gaol , and lays ^ n foundation of the future daring criminal . Only se last week—and it is the index to the whole—I ,: <¦ read , of several young men , clerks in counting ' houses , hurled to thoir ruin for their fiust offence trusted , tempted , lost for ever before they were and-twenty . Are there no means of correction fC laws—no reproof , no friend ' s influence , no mean w" restitution from their salaries—nothing but thiscnish 0 ( 1 ing for ever , before ignorant—tempted young » y hardly know life has begun ? Surely tho / er criminals are those who place young men in places or I trust and temptation heforo they aro capable ? he I resistance-, -who pay small salaries , and expect
, * ° . wo tir evi ^ wi ] yoi m in ll 0 cei j e su los an va tl ) alj m integrity and capability of resistance to temptation absolutely impossible , and who thus bask in the sunshine of prosperity , carelessness , and ease , "bough t at the price of human souls ; these , surely , are the criminals- Let masters remember * there is something higher than the mere safety of their money and -the success of their schemes ; let all who suffer wrong think before they venture to call the law to punish of the consequences to the sinner , and remember that mercy is the first requirement of God ' s laws—and then how different would be the result . How sad but how awful , would be the statistics of First Offences I What a history of youthful folly , ignorance and imprudence in the criminal , and of what mature hardness , harshness , and want of mercy in the prosecutors ! It would read us a good lesson . In how many thousands of cases would the simple obedience to Christ ' s directions , Forgive as you would be forgiven , have saved from misery and crime . What have we of hope in the decrease of crime , when by our want of Christian forbearance with the young we are constantly adding a heavy crop to the already large harvest of our middle classes , ready to be the leaders and employers of the lower , less educated criminals ? Our reformatories have . proved that for the young , even when most depraved , there is still hope by mercy and kindness-, is there no mercy and kindness , no patience , except for the very worst ? It is for those who first fall that I -would plead , and not with magistrates , but with the public—with men and women . It is the want of faith in goodness , mercy , kindness , and forgiveness that is at ' . the root of th e evil , and yet we are a Christian , nation who profess belief in a Saviour that was all mercy and all forgiveness . Mr . Editor , I trust and hope that you will give this subject your influential support , that you will raise your voice in favour of mercy to the erring and young ; urge not merely to be prayed for in our churches , but in our shops , our countings houses , at our own firesides , and crime will have received one great means of check at its very source . I entreat you , with your able pen , to take up this subject , or with the impetus given to avarice by late losses we shall be in danger of an increase of crime and misery little contemplated . I must apologize for thus intruding on your valuable space , and shall watch anxiously to see 1 this important subject treated , as you are so well ' able to treat it , in your valuable paper . : One of its constant readers , subscribers , and ad-1 mireris , ' ; ' ¦ ¦ ¦' '" » , i A Friend of the Young .
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_ j >< , «» »¦ ^ n " - v is F J 1 j t < not in r . M reset , , us , ot L ost - s ot tlie tins | have - , onobut s erf - things real ol ot higli t Mr . Sidney . Herbekt , M . P .: ( says the Wilts , Inde-¦ x pendent ' ) , will become the owner of a considerable i amount . ' of property in Odessa , and some other parts ' of Iv Southern llussia , ' through the deatli of Prince ^ Yorollzo ^^• , „ whose sister was the mother of the right lion , gentley man . . {[ Dr . Waagen has transmitted to the Tunes copies ot ( 1 letters from the Berlin Procureur du Roi and from Lord e Bloomfield , exonerating him from the charge of beiug 3 . concerned in tho recent arrest of Mr . MorrisMoore . is Another Loss by Tin : Koyai , Bmtisii Bank . —llr . w Mayhew , a solicitor , attended at the Worship-street l £ r police-office last Saturday , to communicate a case ot , c hardship arising out of tho stoppage of the Koyal , n British Bank . Tho fathers of tho scholars attending a ot Sunday school attached to St . Paul ' s Church , ¦ Finsbury , ) , i had collected through the year , by means of small ? contributions , a sum of 207 . odd , which it was intended , ( 1 to divide among the children this Christmas , lho ot money had been deposited in the British Bank , ami ot in course was lost . The managers of the school at nat [ r thouglit , considering the smallness of the sum , am tue nt humblo station of those who had collected it , that tue ) ta money woxild bo paid ; but this hope was disappointed , no tho managow of tho bank stating that these P "' ' ™ . ° . creditors must take their chance with the rest . \ U en , et Mr . Mayhow lwid concluded his statement , Mr . nanv-» lf mill , the magistrate , said he would at once p lace o » S the poor-box nt the disposal of the trustees , nil . he had u no doubt that , on the publication of the < lcte . k e ro I papers , many benevolent , rich people would co tnbuto rat towards placing the little losers in the position they n I had occupied before the breaking of tho banlv ost ¦ WiUA-Tho will of FiolA-Mnrshnl V . hooulit IIjrmt dingo , G . C . B ., has been proved ^ J ^ Sht- 80 , 000 / . ; also havo been proved tho wills of ' >«> c "' v ' 8 General Sir John Holt , K . C . B ., K . C . ; Sir Wwanl h i « , of lock Gooch , M . P . for Bast Suffolk , BO . O 00 . ; ^ the Walker , Soymour-lioufte , Jubiluo-plaec , Uiolstn , this Now-inn , formerly of Old Jewry , lOJi ^; ollC of aye This SournAMi-roN Klkction . —Mr . Andio « h , o > nff- tho candidates for tUo horoughof Soutlmmiit '"* , m ; n , e , signed the oOlco of Mayor ( whioh ho . s ^^; , ' me- previous to standing for a place in Pn Lain out ) , > on but paid tho five shillings Hno , Avludi is alwnj rt uvM J ; r , 8 of a person occupying bis oillco who resigns m tlic isli- I hia term . Poncnil Sir ingS TJIK U . CrUES . CNTATION OK Cl HKKNWI < Jll . —^| - » real William CoilriiigUm has issued an mUl i-oas to u >» - [] w esof wich doctors , oJVoring himself as a ^ ll ( 1 J , \ ' ; cBont o of npp lonching election . Ho is a Fiipportor of tno l liigh Ministry .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 27, 1856, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27121856/page/14/
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