. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . s therefore got rid of, and avery tractable successor appointed in his place, ?who ?would make no pretenceto the manarjement of the rein or the whip. Those who are curious toknow how this change ?was eilected, may find it agreeably told by HoraceW^ AVe turn to more vulgar matters. We advert to those legislativeproceedings ?which were designed to remedy the grosser immoralities,and to check the atrocious crimes, which ?were as characteristic of thisperiod as th
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . s therefore got rid of, and avery tractable successor appointed in his place, ?who ?would make no pretenceto the manarjement of the rein or the whip. Those who are curious toknow how this change ?was eilected, may find it agreeably told by HoraceW^ AVe turn to more vulgar matters. We advert to those legislativeproceedings ?which were designed to remedy the grosser immoralities,and to check the atrocious crimes, which ?were as characteristic of thisperiod as the political corruption and the loose examples of the higher ordersof society. In 1752 an Act ?was passed for the better preventing thefts androbberies, and for regulating places of public entertainment, and for punish-ing people keeping disorderly houses. In the same year an Act was alsopassed, directing that in cases of wilful murder immediate execution shouldtake place after the criminal had been sentenced, and that his body should besiven to the surgeons to be dissected and anatomized. The S^argeons Theatre. Surgeons Theatre in the Old Bailey. in the Old Bailey was built for the convenience of this process. Hogarth sprint of the Progress of Cruelty shows how tlie practice was popularly • Quoted by Lord Mahon from Note in Bedford Correspondence.+ Memoirs of George II., vol. i. pp. 185 to 19S. 1752.] PLACES OF ENTERTAINMENT—GIN ACT. 191 regarded. The real cruelty to society consisted in causing dissection to beviewed as an infamy, when it was essentially necessary, for that instructionin anatomy which was to make skilful surgeons and competent physicians,that some of the dead should thus benefit the living. These views of a moreenlightened age repealed the law which was so short-sighted in its enactments of 1752 appear to have in some degree been consequent uponthe publication in 1750 of Henry Fieldings Inquiry into the Causes ofthe late increase of Robbers. lu tha
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