![from [Martin Madan], Thoughts on Executive Justice, with Respect to Our Criminal Laws, Particularly on the Circuits. Dedicated to the Judges of Assize; and Recommended to the Perusal of all Magistrates; and to all Persons Who Are liable to Serve on Crown Juries. By a Sincere Well-wisher to the Public (London: J. Dodsley, 1785), pp. 1–34; 67–74.
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ABSTRACT
Martin Madan was the London-born son of a judge's daughter and a military officer and Member of Parliament. He went to Oxford and then qualified as a lawyer but, when on a dare he attended a sermon by the Evangelical John Wesley, he experienced a strong religious calling. Under the patronage of the methodist countess of Huntingdon, he took up the ministry, became a popular London preacher, published an often reprinted collection of hymns and worked to reclaim prostitutes. Though Madan argues for energetic enforcement of the laws, his approach yet resembles the emphasis of more obviously humanitarian and reformist writers on the justice system's impact on individual feelings and social psychology, in both offenders and the wider public. Whoever examines the common and statute laws, which respect the criminal jurisdiction to be exercised over offenders of all kinds, must surely acknowledge the watchfulness of the legislative powers.
