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Moral Statistics af France. 



a law in the aggregate ; and where all seems at first sight caprice and 

 accident, we find fixed boundaries and uniform results.* 



The following table exhibits a classification of the crimes annually com- 

 mitted in France (with the exception of those that come before military 

 and naval tribunals) in the order of their relative frequency, and as com- 

 mitted by offenders of different sexes. On the average of six years (1825- 

 30) the total number of crimes amounts to 7147 annuall}-, of which, crimes 

 against the person constitute 186.5, or about 1-4 part; offences against pro- 

 perty the remaining 3-4, or 5282. 



No. 3. Crimes in the order of Frequency, &c. 

 (Average of six years, 1825 — 1830.) 

 A. Crimes against the Person. 



NATURE OF TDE CRIME. 



Murder and manslaughter 



Cutting and wounding 



Assaults on women and children 



Crimes against the state 



Infanticide 



Perjury and subornation of perjury .... 



Poisoning 



Parricide 



Bigamy 



Other crimes against the person 



Annual total 



Proportion in 100 

 committed by 

 Men. 1 Women. 



92 

 88 

 99 

 91 

 6 

 85 

 55 

 64 

 98 



12 

 1 



9 

 94 

 15 

 45 

 36 

 2 



56 Mean 44 



86 



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B. Crimes against Property. 



NATURE OF THE CRIME. 



Robbery of various kinds (not otherwise ^ 



specified) i 



by domestics 4475 < 



on the highways I 



in churches ^ 



Frauds and forgery of various kinds and") 

 coining j 



Fraudulent bankruptcy 



Incendiarism and destruction of property. 



Other crimes against property 



Annual total 



The reflection which Schiller puts into the mouth of Wallenstein, when denying 



