The fellow put a child to death; if he were a soldier, you would execute him without priest; and because this CANAILLE is a citizen, you make him 'melancholic' to get him off.

Beautiful justice!" [Preuss, iii.

375.] Friedrich has to sign all Death-Sentences; and he does it, wherever I have noticed, rigorously well.

For the rest, his Criminal Calendar seems to be lighter than any other of his time; "in a population of 5,200,000," says he once, "14 to 15 are annually condemned to death.".