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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

Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820· 3 chapters· 166,488 words

_A general view of the Evils existing in the Metropolis, and the causes from which they arise.--Necessity of a well-regulated Police.--Ineffective system of Criminal Jurisprudence.--Facility of eluding Justice. Severity and inequality of Punishments.--Necessity of revising our...

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1. CHAPTER I.

_A general view of the Evils existing in the Metropolis, and the causes from which they arise.--Necessity of a well-regulated Police.--Ineffective system of Criminal Jurispruden...

3. Act 32 Geo. III. cap. 53. and continued for 5 years by 36

Marine Police, P. Colquhoun, Esq. superintending Magistrate, Wapping New gratis Stairs. John Harriot, Esq. Resident Magistrate Henry Lang, Esq. Chief Clerk William Brooke, Cashi...

2. c. 8; and 6 to conviction, every robber, on the

Geo. I. c. 23. highway, including the streets of the Metropolis, and all other towns, a reward of 40_l._ besides the _horse_, _furniture_, _arms_, and _money_, of the said robbe...