TABLE VII.

NUMBER OF CONVICTS Executed, for LONDON and MIDDLE

SEX, during the

last Twelve Years*.

Murder.

Coiners.

Various Crimes.

Rioters.

Total.

Men.

Women. Men, Women. Men. Women Men. Women.

*This table, together with Jansen's, gives the total number of executions

for thirty-five years past:

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This mark* denotes a person pardoned; the rest were executed. Crimes in SCOTLAND from 1st January 1768 to 1st May 1782. AN ACCOUNT of the Number of Prisoners convicted of Capital

VIII.

TABLE IX.

The following table is not from Howard, but is extracted from one of the Newspapers of the last year.

Number of Prisoners Tried, Convicted, Acquitted, and
Executed, in England and Wales, in the Years, viz.

Number of Prisoners Tried, Convicted, Acquitted, and
Executed in Ireland, in the Years, viz:

HOLLAND.

There are few criminals, except those in the rasp-houses and spin-houses. Of late, in all the seven provinces, seldom more executions in a year than from four to six. One reason of this, I believe, is the awful solemnity of executions, which are performed in presence of the magistrates, with great order and seriousness, and great effect on the spectators. I did not see the process in Holland; but it was particularly described to me, and was similar to what I had been witness of in another place abroad.

The common method of execution for unpremeditated murder, is decollation by a broad sword. Robberies are generally punished by the halter. For the more atrocious crimes, such as premeditated murder, &c. the malefactor is broken on the wheel; or rather on a cross laid flat upon the scaffold. But a description of the manner of this execution, which is finished by a coup de grace on the breast, would not be agreeable to any of my readers.

AMSTERDAM.

In the condemned rooms a criminal is never left alone: two prisoners from the rasp-house are always with him to prevent his destroying himself. They rejoice at the service; for if they discharge it faithfully, their reward is an abridg ment of their allotted term. The execution is generally performed within forty-eight hours after sentence. From a book containing the names and crimes of all who have been executed at Amsterdam, from January 1693, to the end of 1766," the following state of executions at different periods is drawn.