A basis of comparison may be formed by remembering that Joinville, one of the richest noblemen of that age, who went to the crusade with troops equipped at his own charges, had an income of 1,500 livres. Footnote 18: Tacitus: Manners of the Germans—XII. Footnote 19: A decree of February 13th, 1424, is made the protector of public girls against the dissolute men who beat them. Footnote 20: P. Dufour: History of Prostitution—Vol. IV. Footnote 21: Art. 1st—Women and girl prostitutes are forbidden to do fancy work (to crochet) on the quays, in the squares, public walks, boulevards, &c. Footnote 22: One of the noblest and most constant subjects of interest to the Emperor at St. Helena was the discovery of effectual means for guarding against profligacy in towns. Footnote 23: Law of November 19th, 1866. Footnote 24: For the tendency of similar legislation in England, see _Saturday Review_, January 8th, 1870:—“The law accepts the fact of a contagious disease which happens to exist in a human subject only as the law accepts the fact of a bad drain or an unhealthy factory, and deals with it accordingly. In neither case is either the woman or the nuisance _treated as a moral agent, but as a physical fact_.”—[EDITOR.] Footnote 25: Correctional Court of Niort, _re_ Plassiart—Sitting of Dec. 7, 1861. Footnote 26: No one is permitted to come into court who must avow his own shame. Footnote 27: Assize Court of the Seine—Sitting of May 12, 1868. Footnote 28: Law of October 25, 1864. Footnote 29: The authoress, when she wrote these pages, had not heard the fact that the _Contagious Diseases Acts_ had become law in England.—[EDITOR.] Footnote 30: In the United States the Constitution thus establishes the principle of responsibility:—“The president, vice-president, and all civil functionaries, shall be liable to be turned out of their places if, after being accused, they are convicted of treason, the waste of public money, or other offences, and _of libertinism_.” In the same way, every elector, before voting, must give proof of his morality. The Prussian laws sentence the pander who allures women, even those above age, by artifice, to ten years’ hard labour, and have him flogged when he is sent to, and when discharged from, prison. They deprive fathers, mothers, masters, patrons, tutors, &c., of their rights, if they abuse, merely by licentious words, those placed in their care. Russia whips debauchees with the knout. Spain has partly kept up her old laws, which were severe only on the purveyors of profligacy and the frequenters of places of infamy, by declaring that “_The shame proceeds from him who pays for debauchery, and not from her who sells it and receives its price._” Public prostitutes there, who engage maid-servants under 40, are sentenced to one year’s transportation, and a fine of 2000 marvedi, &c. Footnote 31: