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NOTE continued
-parent connection between the mischievous offence
considered as a cause, and the punishment con-
-sidered as being the effect of that cause: But And
I must confess that I do not see much in this
independent of the other considerations that have
been alledged. For the offence, let the pun-
ishment follow ever so closely be inflicted ever so soon after the of-
-fence, it can do no more than appear to be
the effect of it: and that it will appear equally
To be although it should take place ever
so long after. At in England, Andrew
Horne Esquire was hanged for the murder of a
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Vol.
child committed 22 years before.+ Being
hanged executed then with the formalities of justice,
it was plain enough to every body that he
was not hanged for nothing: and if any body enquired asked
what it was he was hanged for, they would learn learnt
of course that he was hanged for child-mur-
+Here indeed the great inter-
-val that took place,
the delay, was between
delinquency and detec-
-tion; but had it been between prose-
-cution commenced and
execution, it does not
appear that in this regard
to the point in question
respect the there would
have been any very considerable difference.
-der. Of course it must be manifest that the of-
-fence which he committed was the cause of his
being punished: and that not less manifest, one should
think, than of the murder had been committed
but the day before.+
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