Treatise on
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
作者：Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820
体例：段 章数：44
字数：888,375 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 44 段- _The prevailing Practice when Offenders are brought
- But laws for this purpose must not be placed upon the Statut
- Punishment, (says a learned and respectable author) _is an e
- Having thus briefly discussed what has occurred relative to
- 1. Laying violent hands on Confiscation of property;
- "That further facilities are afforded by the dealers in old
- "Where such a pump is not provided for them things are much
- If as an improvement to the preventive System, and as a chec
- X. _Cheats who personate Gentlemen's footmen_; These order g
- [Footnote 36: The latter part of the Affidavit, already ment
- [Footnote 41: In consequence of a very accurate inquiry whic
- [Footnote 43: The circulation of stamped Spanish Dollars, in
- In the spring season too, the dealers in counterfeit coin be
- "That any Constable, Headborough, or Beadle, and every Watch
- On the return of peace, however, if a system of watchful ene
- Some of these Receivers had acquired considerable sums of mo
- It is no inconsiderable source of the evil, that large gratu
- Towards defraying this expence, the fees which would be rece
- Under an impression, that very few improvements have been in
- That these Laws, numerous as they are, and applicable as man
- [Footnote 88: It is to be feared that much evil arises from
- Nor have the unequal scale of punishments, and the ultimate
- If in addition to this, moral lessons could occasionally be
- To give this branch of Police vigor and effect, the aid of t
- [Footnote 97: It is a well-known fact, that many persons who
- The fluctuating Civil Force in { Ship Constables
- [Footnote 120: Beadles are, in many instances, employed at p
- [Footnote A: 16 executed]
- It generally happens in the Metropolis, that out of from 200
- Thomas Cotton, Esq. Cloathing,
- Under the present circumstances, where the mind continues de
- At the same time for the purpose of rendering the System of
- Not that it is meant that any additional burthen on the Publ
- "After some further explanations, the Gentleman permitted th
- By the consolidation of the two Boards of Hackney Coaches, a
- A line has been carefully drawn between the _noxious_ and th
- Society for the Relief of sick and maimed Seamen in
- [Footnote 185: It is to be observed, that the Debtors compri
- The evils, therefore, are the more prominent, as they have b
- The general concourse of loose and immoral characters of bot
- This shocking offence, particularly prevalent among the infe
- ---- of the Institutions for Charitable and Humane Purposes,
- _Larceny_, the Definition of this Offence, and the punishmen
- _Remedies for Evils mentioned in this Work_: