To remove the Imperfections in the Criminal Code, 24
To improve the System of the Hulks, 27
To improve also the Mode of Transportation, and the Employment of
Convicts, 481, &c.
To establish National Penitentiary Houses, 457, 460
To improve the System in granting Licences to Public Houses--See
_Alehouses_.
To regulate Dealers in Old Iron, Metals, Stores, Old Wearing
Apparel, Founders of Metals, &c. by Licence, 304
To improve the Laws relative to the prevention of Pillage and
Plunder in the River Thames--See _River Plunder_.
To improve the Laws relative to the prevention of Frauds,
Embezzlements, Pillage and Plunder in Ships of War, and
Transports, and in the Naval and other public Arsenals (See
_Dock-yards_), 26, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258
To prevent Highway Robberies and Burglaries, 103
To prevent the Coinage of base Money, and the Sale and Circulation
of the same, 190, 211
To prevent the evil effects of the Devices of Cheats, Swindlers,
Gamblers and fraudulent Persons, viz.
Swindlers in general, 113, 150
Fraudulent Pawnbrokers, 109
Hawkers and Pedlars, 116
Puffing diurnal Auctioneers, 117
Puffing Money Lenders, 118
Illegal Lottery Insurers, 151, 162
Itinerant Jews, 147, 148
Various Classes of Cheats and Swindlers, &c. with Cautions to
Tradesmen and others to beware of them, 131
A general Remedy proposed, 131, 132
To prevent the evil of receiving Stolen Goods, and through this
medium the Commission of Robberies, Burglaries, Thefts,
Larcenies, Embezzlements, Frauds and Swindling, &c. under eight
different heads, 302, 303, 304, &c.
To prevent Justice from being defeated in the apprehension of
Offenders, by Rewards to Officers and others apprehending them
(See _Rewards_), 392, 393
To prevent Frauds in the trial of Offenders by appointing a
Prosecutor for the Crown, 21, 26
To proportion all punishments to the nature of the Offence, and to
abolish sanguinary and severe Punishments, 28, 29, 59, 60
To improve the System with regard to Pardons--(See _Pardons_), 27
To improve the System of Police for the Metropolis, by
establishing a Fund for Rewards, 509, 512
To establish a concurrent Jurisdiction over the whole of the
Metropolis, 419, 420
To establish Police Magistrates in London, 513, _n._
To establish a Board of Police as a centre point, where a
responsible superintending agency, under the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, should be pledged to attend to the
great outlines of the Police of the Metropolis--(See POLICE),
25, 26
A System for the more easy recovery of small Debts, 584, 585, 586,
587
To improve the Municipal Police, by extending the same Laws,
Penalties and Punishments to every part of the Metropolis, 599,
&c.
General View of all the Remedies proposed in this Work, against
the existing Evils which at present infest the Metropolis, Ch.
XX. p. 602, &c.
_Restraints_ imposed on Criminal People cannot affect the Liberty of
the Subject, 13
Those already established to obtain Revenue, severer, 14
_Revenue_ of the Customs greatly injured by River Plunder, 241, _n._
_Rewards_--To be given by Magistrates in order to enable them to
detect offenders--The utility explained, 509-511
Rewards necessary to all classes of Public Officers of Justice,
for the purpose of exciting vigilance, 409, 410
Rewards granted at present for ten specific Offences, detailed,
390, 391
Amount paid by Sheriffs from 1786 to 1797, L.94,430, 393, _n._
Rewards paid on Prosecutions at the Old Bailey from Sept. 1790 to
1791, 394, 395
Small Rewards recommended for detecting inferior Offences, 393, 394
The quantum of the Reward to be left to the discretion of the
Judge, and allowed according to the merit of the parties,
whether there is a conviction or not, 393, 396
Rewards proposed for the detection of Coiners and Utterers of Base
Money, 207
For the detection of Plunderers in the Dock-yards, 272
_River Plunder_, its amazing extent, probably not less than _Half a
Million per annum_, Cap. VIII., 215, 237, 238, 239
Yet not exceeding 15_s._ per Cent. on the value of the Property
exposed, 215, 216, & _table_
13,000 Vessels and more discharge and receive three millions of
Packages annually in the River, 217
Various classes of River Plunderers.
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_River Pirates_, (particular instances of their audacious
Depredations), 218, 220
_Night Plunderers_, 220, 223
_Light Horsemen_, or nightly Plunderers of West India Ships,
223, 226
_Heavy Horsemen_, or Lumpers, 226, 227
_Game Watermen_, _ibid._
_Game Lightermen_, 228, 231
_Mud-Larks_, 230
_Revenue Officers_, 231, 232
_Scuffle-hunters_, 233, 234
_Copemen_, or Receivers, 235, 236
See further _Marine Police_.
_Robberies and Burglaries_--not prevented by the Police System of
1792, and the reason why, 509
Chiefly for want of giving small Rewards, 510
_Robbery_, defined, 54
_Roman Laws_, relative to Murder, Theft, 41, 51
S.
_Salaries_, proposed to be increased to the Servants of the Crown,
on the abolition of Perquisites, 282
_Sartine, M. de_, Minister of Police in Paris, two singular
Anecdotes of, 525, 526, &c.
_Saxon Laws_ relative to Murder, 44
_Schools_ in the Metropolis, 569
_Scuffle-hunters_, A class of Labourers who hunt after Work when
Ships are discharging, chiefly with a view to plunder, 233, 234
_Sequin_ of Turkey, counterfeited in London, 18, 184, 190
_Servants_--Corrupted by the temptations of the Metropolis, 12
Particularly by the Lottery, 153, 155
_Sewers_, their origin and great utility, the Acts relative to
them, 591
_Sharpers_, an account of noted Females concerned in different kinds
of Frauds, 127, 130
_Sharpers and Swindlers_, their various devices to defraud the
Public, 114, 115
---- Ought to find security for their Good Behaviour, 135
_Ships_, in the River Thames, the Loss and Inconvenience arising
from the present mode of discharging, (See _River Plunder_)
_Silk Manufacturers_ of Spital-Fields, their Address of Thanks for
the Establishment of the Police System in 1792, 519, 520, _n._
_Societies_ in London for Morals, Arts, &c., 570, 571
_Society_ for the Relief of Persons imprisoned for small Debts, an
excellent Institution, 589
_Sodomy_, the Laws relative to it, and the Punishment, 46
---- Introduced into England by the Lombards, _ibid._
_Soup Charities_, their peculiar excellence in relieving the Poor,
81, 82, _n._, 356
_Southwark_, the Acts relative to its Police, 594
_Spirituous Liquors_, the astonishing Consumption of, &c., 327, _n._
_Statutes_, See _Acts of Parliament_.
_Statute Law_--Necessity of its Revisal, and the steps taken for
that purpose, 7, _n._, 32
_Stolen Goods_, See _Receivers_.
_Stores_, Government, See _Embezzlement_; _Naval Embezzlements_;
_Acts_, 257
_Streets_ in the Metropolis, estimated at 8000, 411
_Sugars_, the Plunder of, estimated at L.97,000 a year, lost by the
Planters and Merchants, and L.25,000 by the Revenue, 241, _n._
---- Annual losses by Samples, L.60,000 and upwards, 235, _n._
_Suicide_, the effect of Gambling in the Lottery, 144, _n._
_Summary View_ of the Causes of the Insufficiency of the Police,
under nine different heads, 24, 25, 26, 27
---- Of Prisoners committed in one year, 429
_Superstition_ of the Jews, See _Jews_.
_Swindlers_, See _Sharpers_.
T.
_Tea Gardens_, Public Evils, 345
---- Proposals for regulating them, 347
_Thames_ (River) See _River Plunder--Marine Police_.
_Thefts_ (_petty_) Causes and Progress of, Cap. III., 74, & _seq._
---- By Persons not belonging to the Fraternity of Thieves,
estimated at L.700,000, 10
---- From Ships in the River and upon the Wharfs, See _River
Plunder_.
---- From Dock-yards, Ships of War, &c. See _Dock-yards_.
---- Burglaries, Highway Robberies, &c., 93, 94, 103
_Theft._ First punished with Death by Henry I. 1108, 52
The Laws relative to Theft in this and other Nations, 51
_Thieves._ Professed Thieves not intimidated when put on their
Trial; reasons assigned, 424, 425, 426, 449, 450
The different classes of persons who resort to thieving and
robbing, 95, 96
Many Thieves taken off by the War, but many remain behind on
account of ruptures and other disabilities, which, however, do
not prevent their committing Crimes, 99, 100
The means used by them to accomplish their purposes, 100, 105, 291
_Tokens_, Provincial Coins, respecting which Regulations are
proposed, 198
_Transportation_, when first introduced as a Punishment, 454
Offences punishable in this way detailed, 440
Expence of the Transportation of Convicts to New South Wales, and
their Confinement in the Hulks, 460, 469
_Travelling Police_, A plan of hinted at, 109, _n._
_Treason_, The Laws relative to it explained, viz:
Of High Treason, 38, 39, 40
The great inaccuracy of the Act of Edward III. in blending
together Crimes disproportionate in their nature, 39
The Laws of China relative to High Treason, 40
Petty Treason, how punished, 41
_Twenty Thousand_ rise every morning in the Metropolis, without
knowing how they are to be subsisted through the day, 313, _n._
_Tyburn Ticket_, A premium given for apprehending and prosecuting
Burglars, House-Breakers and Horse-stealers, explained, 391, _n._
U.
_Useful Cautions_, to Tradesmen and others against the devices of
Cheats and Swindlers, and to prevent frauds and Impositions, 124, 131
V.
_Vagrants and Vagrancy._ A specification of what constitutes this
Offence:
---- Idle and disorderly persons, how punished, 442, &c.
---- Rogues and Vagabonds, 443
---- Incorrigible Rogues, _ib._
_Vessels_, trading to the River Thames, nearly 13,500 in the course
of a year, 215-217
_Volunteers_, See Loyal Military Associations.
W.
_War_, The means of employing Criminals, 99, 100
---- Civil Wars seldom waged from considerations of Virtue or the
security of Liberty, 37
_Watch-houses_ in the Metropolis, 414, _n._
_Watching_ the Metropolis, the Laws relating thereto, 411, 412
_Watchmen_ and Patroles to be placed under the control of the
Police, 106, 107
---- Their miserable Establishment from 8-1/2_d._ to 2_s._ a night,
107
---- How appointed and paid, 411, 412, 411 [Transcriber's Note: sic],
_n._
---- Their general unfitness, 412, 413
---- The abuses which arise from this source, _ib._
---- The number in the Metropolis, 414
---- Rewards proposed to excite vigilance, 415, 416
_Watchmakers_ to be registered, 108
_Water_ and Waterworks, 595
_Watermen_ on the Thames, Act 34 Geo. III. regulating their Fares,
&c., 596
_West India Produce_ pilfered in a year, 240, 241, _n._
_Westminster_, The Acts of Parliament relative to its Police,
411, _n._, 412, _n._
_Women and Children_ of late years regularly frequent the Tap rooms
of Public Houses a proof of the Corruption of Morals, 310-314
_Writs._ An extraordinary Statement of the astonishing expence of
small Law-suits, exemplified by an authentic Table of the number of
Writs issued in Middlesex in the course of a year, 587
The Subject further explained, 585, 588
_FINIS._
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