to MR. CALCRAFT'S Dancing Academy, and there have
been taught to dance with fettered heels to the smack of the lash
resounding on his own bare back.

The LORD MAYOR consigned MR. CURTIS to Holloway Prison and hard labour
for six months, to give him, as his Lordship said, an opportunity for
reflection and repentance. But the dancing lessons--two, or even three,
perhaps, would not have been too many--were wanting to render the
reflection profitable and the repentance sincere. They would have given
him an opportunity for reflecting on the nature of stripes and blows,
and for repenting of having inflicted such injuries on a woman.

Another tailor, JAMES WRIGHT, also brought before the LORD MAYOR on the
same day for the like offence, had hit his wife twice on the head with a
sleeveboard, cutting open her skull in three places, had struck her with
his fist in the face, and continued to knock her about for three or four
minutes. At the Thames Police Office, likewise on the same day, JAMES
CROPLEY, a Lancashire collier, was charged with committing an assault
upon his wife, which consisted in felling her to the earth by dealing
her a blow in the face with a heavy stick that knocked her nose flat.
Six months' imprisonment and hard labour only, were the sentences on
these gentlemen also. No blame to the MAYOR or the Magistrate. The law
at present unfortunately does not empower them to enter such savages at
the School of Correction for the extra of penal dancing.

Since these cases, others of similar atrocity have occurred, and
continue to occur so frequently as to suggest the existence of a
downright mania for wife-beating. In other forms of mania the whip has
happily been disused; but it is the only cure for this. There is clearly
no other help. Cure?--preventive we should rather say. Dastards--with
the fear of the scourge before their eyes--have ceased to assail the
Royal person, and would very soon begin to respect that of the mere
female subject. Thus the possibility of being whipped would restrain
them from rendering themselves liable to whipping; a consideration which
quite conquers the repugnance one feels at the thought of lashing a
human being--if such a phrase can be applied to a brute. Whipcord,
therefore, would never, probably, have to whistle, or thong to crack, to
the howl of any such ruffian after all: but, if occasion were given for
such music, we must say our ears would not be too delicate to bear it.

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