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DOMESTIC DISCIPLINE OF THE DUTCH.--There are two things of a peculiar
character in Holland, which deserve to be noticed. One is the enactment
authorising husbands, wives, and children to be imprisoned in a house of
correction set apart for the chastisement of offences against the laws by
which the relations of social life are governed--the other, a contrivance
for compelling the incorrigibly idle to work. In one of the rooms is a
pump, and a stream of water runs in from the ceiling; so that unless the
prisoner labours continually, he must be inevitably drowned.
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Paternoster Row, London; SIMMS and DINHAM, Exchange Street,
Manchester; C. DAVIES, North John Street, Liverpool; JOHN
MENZIES, Prince’s Street, Edinburgh; and DAVID ROBERTSON,
Trongate, Glasgow.
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Transcriber’s Note: The line “he accordingly accompanied Mr Burke to his
house, on entering which he was instantly delivered to the military
stationed there” was originally printed “he accordingly accompanied Mr
Burke entering which he was instantly delivered to the military to his
house, on stationed there”, which doesn’t seem to make sense, so has been
re-ordered.