"With regard to _imprisonment_, that is a species of punishment not to be considered alike in all cases, but ..., that it would be proper for the judgment of the court to state circumstances which will make the imprisonment fall lighter or heavier, ... that would be proper, if I had not been spared all trouble upon that account, by hearing it solemnly avowed ... by the defendant himself, that imprisonment was no kind of inconvenience to him; for that certain employments, ... would occasion his confinement in so close a way, that it was mere matter of circumstance whether it happened in one place or another; and that the longest imprisonment which this court could inflict for punishment, was not beyond the reach of accommodation which those occasions rendered necessary to him. In this respect, therefore, imprisonment is not only, ... not an adequate punishment to the offence, but the public are told, ... that it will be _no punishment_. "I stated in the third place to your Lordships, _the pillory to have been the usual punishment for this species of offence_. I apprehend it to have been so, in this case, for above two hundred years before the time when prosecutions grew rank in the Star-Chamber ... the punishment of the pillory was inflicted, not only during the time that such prosecutions were rank in the Star-Chamber, but it also continued to be inflicted upon this sort of crime, and that by the best authority, after the time of the abolishing the Star-Chamber, after the time of the Revolution, and while my Lord Chief Justice Holt sat in this court. "I would desire no better, no more pointed, nor any more applicable argument than what that great chief justice used, when it was contended before him that an abuse upon government, upon the administration of several parts of government, amounted to nothing, because there was no abuse upon any particular man. That great chief justice said, they amounted to much more; they are _an abuse upon all men_. Government cannot exist, if the law cannot restrain that sort of abuse. Government cannot exist, unless ... the full punishment is inflicted which the most approved times have given to offences of much less denomination than these, of much less. I am sure it cannot be shown, that in any one of the cases that were punished in that manner, the aggravations of any one of those offences were any degree adequate to those which are presented to your Lordship now. If offences were so punished then, which are not so punished now, they lose that expiation which the wisdom of those ages thought proper to hold out to the public, as a restraint from such offences being committed again.