CONTENTS.

Original Papers.

`Reflections on Prussian Education and Law, (continued from last

number.) By W. S. R. of Barnwell,

Ipsistos. By the author of the "Yemassee, Atalantis, &c.

Joan of Arc. By ELORA of Philadelphia,

My First Love. By CŒLEBS,

Poetry of Nature,

Random Recollections of Revolutionary Characters and Incidents.
By one who has often heard them narrated by the actors in those
times of peril, or by lookers on,
Thle-cath-cha; being a few passages from Muscoghee history.
Chapter 4, embracing an account of the massacre at Fort Mimms,
English Portraits:-Thomas Fuller,

Song "No, never, though loud be the voice that upbraids me,"
Bacon's Poems; being a review of "Poems by Wm. Thompson Ba-
con,"

Passages from Bryan's Oration.-Extracts from an oration, delivered
before the Washington Society on 4th July, 1833. By GEORGE
S. BRYAN, Esq.

Editor's Port Folio..

Notice of "The Athenian Captive,"

Goethe and the "Sorrows of Werther,"

Dr. Channing and the London Quarterly Review,

Notice of "Burton, or the Sieges,"

Notice of Mrs. Gilman's "Poetry of Travelling,"

Notice of Boz's "Memoirs of Grimaldi,"

To Readers and Correspondents,

WE proceed next to the consideration of the 4th chapter, which treats of the punishment of death. Our author is one of those who deny that there are any cases in which society has a right to inflict the punishment of death; and maintains that perpetual slavery ought to be instituted in place of hanging, &c. He says:

"Mankind have no right to take the lives of their fellow-men. The laws of the land represent the general will of the people. This general will is the amount of that of each one of them taken collectively; and the sum of the smallest portions of the private liberty of each citizen is the law. It is a maxim that a man has no right to take his own life, but this right he must have in order to give it away to another."-p. 161.

This reasoning is precisely the same as that made use of by the Marquis Beccaria; for in his "Essay on Crimes and Punishments," chap. 23, he observes:-

"The useless profusion of punishments, which has never made men better, induces me to inquire, whether the punishment of death be really just or useful in a well governed state? What right, I ask, have men to cut the throats of their fellow-creatures? Certainly not that on which the sovereignty and laws are founded. The laws, as I have said before, are only the sum of the smallest portions of the private liberty of each individual, and represent the general will, which is the aggregate of that of each individual. Did any one ever give to others the right of taking away his life? Is it possible, that in the smallest portions of the liberty of each, sacrificed to the good of the public, can be contained the greatest of all good, life? If it were so, how shall it be reconciled to the maxim which tells us, that a man has no right to kill himself, which he certainly must have, if he could give it away to another."

*Ueber die Verbrechen und die Bestrafungen.-Von Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Fruillinghuissen, Lehrer an der Rechtsgelahrheit, der Konigl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottengen, and Mehrerer gelehrten Gesellschaften Mitgliede. Berlin: 1836,-8 vo. pp. 214.

On Crimes and Punishments.-By Dr. William Henry Fruillinghuissen, lecturer on jurisprudence, &c. &c.