. Punch . ! Henever neglects the pleasures of the people ! Turning the Timespage, we next light upon two striking evidences of the great moralexample of hanging : for, at Guildhall, a lad, named Richard Lee,is arraigned for stealing a silk handkerchief while looking at thehanging corpse ; and Jacob Lazams, aged 26, is charged withfilching an eye-glass under the same circumstances. Truly, wethink such pilfering shows the hangman to be a great moral teacher. Tawell was, it seems, executed in his Quaker dress. It has beensaid that the body of Friends petitioned against his assumption oftheir garb
. Punch . ! Henever neglects the pleasures of the people ! Turning the Timespage, we next light upon two striking evidences of the great moralexample of hanging : for, at Guildhall, a lad, named Richard Lee,is arraigned for stealing a silk handkerchief while looking at thehanging corpse ; and Jacob Lazams, aged 26, is charged withfilching an eye-glass under the same circumstances. Truly, wethink such pilfering shows the hangman to be a great moral teacher. Tawell was, it seems, executed in his Quaker dress. It has beensaid that the body of Friends petitioned against his assumption oftheir garb upon the scaffold. If true, we think they betrayed a sen-sitiveness unworthy of their high and simple character. Whilst,however, we do all honour to their many noble and virtuous qualities,we do not wholly sympathise with that alacrity which prompts themto the renunciation of an erring brother. A sect obtains a reputa-tion for goodness somewhat cheaply, if it inexorably cuts off everytransgressing MR. SMITHS REASONS FOR NOT SENDING HISPICTURES TO THE EXHIBITION. nowing much consternation pre-vails in the artistical worldon account of to withdrawfrom the Academy, he haskindly permitted us to pub-lish the reasons of his re-tirement, as he wrote themto an affectionate relativeat his native town of Bul-lock-smithy :— Newman Street, March 25. My Dearest Aunt, You ask me why Iprefer to exhibit my picturesat my native Art-Union ofBullocksmithy, rather thanto send them to the RoyalAcademy, London, where,as you state with perfectjustice, they would be sureof the very first prize. ut Our gracious Sovereign,you say, * is an acknow-ledged and enlightened pa-troness of the Fine Arts, and,in the course of her visit tothe Royal Academy, wouldbe sure to fix the very firstthing upon my dear Sebas-tians charming and sublimepieces. And then you fallinto an AlDaschar train ofimagination, picturing me toyourself as hob-and-nob withall the Grandees at the Palace,ma
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