He concurred with the Petitioners in thinking that severe punishments were in-effectual, when they went against the feelings of society; in such a state of things severe punishments encouraged crime.

HC Deb 19 March 1830 vol 23 cc619-20

By Mr. O'CONNELL, from the Rev. Thomas Smith, of London, complaining that the Petitioner had been a Clergyman of the Established Church for seventeen years, and yet was without any ecclesiastical preferment, and praying that greater facilities might be given for the erection of Churches. By Lord EUSTON, from Bury St. Edmund's, praying for a Revision of the Criminal Law. By Sir M. W. RIDLRY, from Richard Trevithick, slating that he had invented Machinery for transferring Coals from Ships into Barges, by which a saving of 3s. a chaldron might be effected, and praying that he might be enabled to bring his invention into general use Praying for the Abolition of the East-India Company's Charter—by Mr. SYKES, from the inhabitants of Kingston-upon-Hull, and from the Brotherhood of the Trinity House of Kingston-upon-Hull:— By Mr. WOLRYCHE WHITMORE, from Heckmondwike:—By Sir A. CAMPBELL, from the weavers of Glasgow:—By Mr. BULLER, from Idle, in the county of York.