Note 26 — RESIDENCE AT BRIARS. (continued 2)
Reading edition
This fact is corroborated by authentic documents, which exhibit proofs more positive than might be expected. (See Situation de l’ Angleterre, par M. de Montvéran.)
FRANCE ENGLAND
Inhabitants. Condemned to death. Years. Inhabitants. Condemned to death.
34,000,000 882 {1801} 16,000,000 3,400
42,000,000 392 {1811} 17,000,000 6,400
It is obvious from this statement, that in the year 1801, in France, twenty-six out of a million of inhabitants were condemned to death; and that in 1811, ten years after, the number of condemned had diminished two-thirds, leaving the proportion of only nine to a million.
In England, on the contrary, where, in 1801, the number of criminals condemned to death was 212 out of a million of inhabitants, the amount increased by more than one half; there being in 1811, 376 out of a million.
It is worthy of observation that the condemnations in England, compared with those in France, were as 376 to 9, or as 42 to 1.
The report of the state of mendicity in France, compared with that of the parish poor in England, also presents a prodigious difference: the French list, in 1812, exhibiting only 30,000 individuals out of 43 millions of inhabitants; while in England, in the same year, a fourth of the population, or 4,250,000 poor, were thrown upon the parishes.—(Montvéran.)