IN TO POLAND, RUSSIA, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK. INTERSPERSED WITH HISTORICAL RELATIONS ILLUSTRATED WITH CHARTS AND ENGRAVINGS. BY WILLIAM COXE, A. M. F. R. S. ELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AND CHAPLAIN TO Ch. IV. Knoot.-Penal laws.-Remarks upon the fuppofed fuppreffion of capital punishments by Elizabeth.-Abolition of torture.-New code of laws p. 69 Ch. V. Inquiry into the prefent ftate of civilization in the Ruffian empire.- Nobles.-Clergy.-Merchants and burghers.-Peasants.-State of vaffal |