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I. On the ADMINISTRATION of the CRIMINAL CODE

in ENGLAND, and the Spirit of the English Go-

VERNMENT. By M. Cortu, Counsellor of the Royal

Court of Paris, and Secretary-General to the Royal

Society of Prisons, and to the Special Council of the

Prisons of Paris. [Translated exclusively for the Pam-

phleteer.].....

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II. Notes on a Visit made to some of the PRISONS in

SCOTLAND and the North of ENGLAND, in com-

pany with ELIZABETH Fry; with some GENERAL

OBSERVATIONS on the subject of Prison Disci-

PLINE. By Joseph JOHN Gurney. Second Edi-
tion. (Concluded from No. xxx.)........

97

III. First Report of the COMMISSIONERS appointed

to consider the subject of Weights and MEASURES.. 135

IV. LETTERS addressed to the Right Honorable the EARL

of LIVERPOOL and the Right Honorable NICHOLAS

VANSITTART on the Resumption of Cash PAYMENTS. 141

V. SUMMARY of Facts and INFERENCES respecting the

CAUSES, proper and adventitious, of Plague, and

other PESTILENTIAL DISEASES; with proofs of the

non-existence of contagion in these maladies : intended

for the use of the Select COMMITTEE of the House

of Commons, for enquiring into the validity of the

Doctrine of Contagion, in the Plague, &c. in February,

1819, and presented to thein, but not hitherto pub-

lished. By CHARLES MACLEAN, M.D. Lecturer on

the Diseases of Hot Climates to the Honorable East

India Company. [Original.]

• 153

VI. BARON SMITH'S CHARGE, delivered on the 9th of

March, 1820, to the Grand Jury of the County of

Westmeath, and published at their unanimous request .. 193

yil, The BRITISH METRE, and its DERIVATIVES; being

a sketch of a proposed Reformation in the BRI-

TISH MEASURES, Weights, and Coins; founded

on a system, from which, as a universal basis, may

emanale, after correction, the different systems of all

civilized nations. [Original.].....

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VIII. Speech of the Rt. Hon. George CANNING, de-

livered at the Liverpool Dinner, given in celebration of

his re-election, March 18, 1820. (Fourth Edition, re-

vised and corrected.]

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