as it is hurtful to the Public.-Compelling a residence which shall be stationary, and obliging them to bind out their children apprentices at a certain age, so as to incorporate them with the mass of the people, would certainly prove a very salutary Regulation.

10th. The frauds and adulterations in the article of Milk sold in

the Metropolis, as detailed in the 3d Chapter of this Work, pages 89 to 92, seem to justify the inteference of Parliament for the purpose of placing Milk Dealers under the inspection and controul of the Police: Here the injury is not merely confined to the frauds thus practised on the Public, but the healths of the Consumers are in some measure endangered from the infamous devices which are practised.

11th. For the purpose of saving much unnecessary expence, and also to remove the inconvenience arising from the length of time, which frequently elapses before persons charged with offences, in Southwark, Greenwich, and the villages surrounding the Metropolis, make it lawful to try offences committed in Surry, Kent and Essex, within five miles of the three Bridges, at the Justice Hall of the Old Bailey, which may be done before a Jury of the Vicinage, with great advantages to Public Justice, and without touching on the rights of the Accused*.

12th. To establish certain Legislative Regulations, for the purpose of preserving the Morals of unfortunate unoffending families, by restoring to them such parents whose misfortunes and not their crimes, have doomed them to the horrors of perpetual Imprisonment.-And to establish arrangements for the improvement of what may be denominated Civil Police, by adopting inferior Tribunals for distributing Justice in all actions of Debt under 501. for the purpose of reducing the present enormous expence, and extending relief to traders in general t.

See pages 428 and 429.

See pages 584 to 590.
THUS

THUS has the Author of this work endeavoured develope that infinite variety of crimes and misfor tunes, which have been long felt and deplored as a pressure upon the innocent part of the community.

In travelling over so extensive a field, where almost every step is stained with turpitude and depravity, no little consolation is derived from being able thus to place upon record practicable Remedies, applicable to the chief part of the evils, which have been brought under the review of the Reader.

Nor is it less a matter of gratification to the Writer of the preceeding pages, than it must be satisfactory to the Public at large, to discover that the leading features of the whole improvements which he suggested in the preceding editions of this Work, have attracted the notice, and received the sanction of the Select Committee of the House of Commons.

The conclusion which may naturally be drawn is, that the laborious efforts of the Author in bringing a new and interesting subject under the review of the Public have not been in vain; and that a confident hope may now be entertained that his humble endeavours, for the good of his Country, will ultimately produce arrangements in the New Science of Police, calculated to secure and protect the peaceful subject against injury, and to ameliorate the state and condition of Civil Society, particularly in this great Metropolis, by the adoption of such measurs as shall

.be

:

be conducive to the more effectual Prevention of Crimes ;-by lessening the demand for Punishments: by diminishing the expence and alleviating the burden of Prosecutions:-by turning the hearts and arresting the hands of evil doers by forewarning the unwary, and preserving the untainted in purity; thus attaching to Police its genuine preventive character, unmixed with those judicial powers which lead to Punishment, and properly belong to Magistracy alone.

FINIS.

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INDEX.

A

(table)

Abstract of the annual Imports into, and Exports from
the Port of London
Persons committed, and discharged from
Prisons in one year, and extraordinary docu-
.ment:

(table)

Account of Pawnbrokers in the Metropolis, and the vast
A property in their houses belonging to the

poor

of various descriptions of Cheats

of the number of Streets, Lancs, Houses and Fa-
milies in the Metropolis

of the previous Plans and Arrangements of
Thieves when a Robbery or Burglary is con-
templated

of the usual Mode of proceeding to recover sto-
len property

Page

215,16

430

110

123,4,5,6,7

568

291

383

of the Number of Persons engaged in fraudulent
Lotteries

156

of ditto in 1793 and 1795

of the Trials at the Old Bailey in 1790 and 1791

-

of the Officers of Justice in the Metropolis

of the Watchmen and Patroles there

of the Magistrates there

of the Criminal Courts there

394,5

446-448

397

414

398,9

428

of the specific Criminals punishable by Law
of the Convicts in the Hulks

437-444

455

504,5

of the Names of the City and Police Magistrates
of the Churches and other places of Worship in
the Metropolis

of the Seminaries of Education in the Metropolis
of the Societies for promoting Religion and Mo-
rality

568

569,70

570,2

of the Societies for promoting the Arts
of the Asylums for the Indigent and Helpless
of the Hospitals for the Sick and for Pregnant
Women in the Metropolis