Chapter XXIII: Act 32: Geo. III. cap. 53. and continued for 5 years by 36 (6)

_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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