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 AND SUGGESTING REMEDIES FOR THEIR PREVENTION. THE SIXTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED. BY P. COLQUHOUN, LL.D. King as a Magistrate for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex.- Meminerint legum conditores, illas ad proximum hunc finem accommo- LONDON: NTED BY H. BALDWIN AND SON, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS; SUCCESSOR TO MR. DILLY. M.DCCC. TO THE SOVEREIGN, Who has graciously condescended to approve of the Author's Efforts "To establish a System of Morality and good Order in "The Metropolis:" LONDON, AND TO HIS PEOPLE; In every Part of the British Dominions; whose favourable Reception of these Labours, for the Good of their Country, has contributed, in a considerable degree, to the Progress which has been already made, towards the Adoption of the Remedies proposed for the Prevention of Crimes, the Comfort of Society, and the Security of the Peaceful Subject: This Improved and Enlarged Edition of Jan. 1, 1800. |