A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

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Author

Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820

Title

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

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Produced by Robert Connal, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Police -- England -- London

Category

Text

eBook-No.

35650

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35650

Release Date

March 21, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS;
2. 2.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. — The SIXTH EDITION, Corrected and considerably Enlarged.
3. 3.BY P. COLQUHOUN, LL.D. Acting as a Magistrate for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex.— For the City and Liberty of Westminster, and for the Liberty of the Tower of London.
4. 4.ADVERTISEMENT.
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.A TREATISE , &c.
8. 8.CHAPTER I.
9. 9.CHAP. II. — ABSTRACT OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF THE EMPEROR JOSEPH II.
10. 10.CHAP. III.
11. 11.CHAP. IV.
12. 12.CHAP. V.
13. 13.CHAP. VI. — GAMING. — FRAUDULENT INSURANCES IN THE LOTTERY. — PLAN I. — PLAN II. — PLAN III. — " SCHEME. — "SCHEME OF DRAWING.
14. 14.CHAP. VII.
15. 15.CHAP. VIII. — ABSTRACT OF THE IMPORTS INTO, AND THE EXPORTS FROM, THE PORT OF LONDON ; — RECAPITULATION.
16. 16.CHAP. IX. — I. A General Police System. — II. A Local Police for the Dock-yards. — III. Legislative Regulations proposed in aid of the general and local Police System. — IV. Old Stores. — Plan for an improved mode of disposing of unserviceable Naval and Victualing Stores. — V. The Perquisite of Chips. — VI. The Abolition of Fees and Perquisites, and an Increase of Salaries. — VII. An improved Mode of Keeping Accounts. — VIII. An annual Inventory of Stores.
17. 17.CHAP. X.
18. 18.CHAP. XI.
19. 19.CHAP. XII.
20. 20.CHAP. XIII. — ESTIMATE.
21. 21.CHAP. XIV.
22. 22.CHAP. XV. — A Summary View of the Prisoners committed , tried , punished , disposed of , and discharged in the Metropolis, in One Year , ending in October, 1795. — Number of prisoners, punished and disposed of. — Number of Prisoners discharged by the Magistrates, and from the Eight Gaols, in One Year.
23. 23.CHAP. XVI. — A TABLE, shewing the Prisoners tried at the Old Bailey, from April 1793, to March 1794, inclusive. — RECAPITULATION. — PROPOSAL FOR A NEW AND LESS EXPENSIVE MODE OF EMPLOYING AND REFORMING CONVICTS . — Outline of the Plan of Construction alluded to in the above Proposal.
24. 24.CHAP. XVII.
25. 25.CHAP. XVIII. — FUNCTIONS:
26. 26.CHAP. XIX. — For Religious Instruction. — EDUCATION. — 1st. For Education. — RELIGION AND MORALS. — 2. For promoting Religion and good Morals. — THE ARTS. — 3. For learning, and the useful and fine Arts. — 4. Asylum for the Indigent and Helpless. — ASYLUMS FOR SICK, LAME, DISEASED, AND FOR POOR PREGNANT WOMEN. — Hospitals for Sick, Lame, and Diseased, and Pregnant Women. — Dispensaries for Sick, Lame, and Diseased. — Institutions for Charitable and Humane Purposes. — COURTS OF JUSTICE IN THE METROPOLIS . — Supreme Courts. — Seventeen Courts in the City of London. — Courts of Justice within the City and Liberty of Westminster. — Courts of Justice in that part of the Metropolis, which lies within the County of Middlesex. — Courts of Justice in the Borough of Southwark, Surry. — Prisons in the Metropolis .
27. 27.CHAP. XX. — RECAPITULATION. — SUMMARY VIEW OF THE REMEDIES PROPOSED. — Corruption of Morals. — Prevention of Offences. MISDEMEANORS . — Amendment of the Existing Laws.
28. 28.INDEX. — A. — B. — C. — D. — E. — F. — G. — H. — I. & J. — K. — L. — M. — N. — O. — P. — Q. — R. — S. — T. — U. — V. — W.
29. 29.FOOTNOTES

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