D.
Dead Horses, and other Animals, Dealers in, to be regulated, [109]
Dealers in old Metals and Stores, their great increase, [12]
—— their mischievous tendency, [292], [293]
—— Regulations proposed, [292], [293], [303], [548], [549]
Death, The number of Crimes punishable with Death by the English Law, [5], [437]
—— Abrogated in the Roman Empire, by the Portian Law, [6]
—— Inadequate to the ends of Justice, [6]
—— Impropriety of inflicting death, except for the highest offences, [30], [53], [58]
—— Jewish Law relative to death, [43]
—— Athenian Law, ib.
—— Roman ditto, ib.
—— Chinese ditto, [44]
—— Persian ditto, [43]
—— Saxon ditto, [44]
—— Alfred's ditto, ib.
—— Athelstan's ditto, [51]
—— Abolished in the Imperial Dominions of Joseph II. anno 1767, [60]
—— Theft first punished by death by Henry I. nearly 700 years ago, [437]
—— A specification of the several offences punishable with death by the Laws of England, [437], [438], [439]
Debts, The difficulty and expence of recovering small sums, [584], [585], [586], [587]
—— An astonishing Document, proving the vast extent of the injury, [587], n.
—— A Remedy proposed, [586], [588]
Depredations on the Public, in the River and Dock-yards, [Chap. viii.] [214], &c. [ix.] [250], &c.
—— on Sugar and West India Produce, [240], [241]
—— from Sugar Samples, upwards of 60,000l. a year, [235], n.
—— does not much exceed 15s. per cent. on the Moving Property, [215]
Detection of Offenders:
—— The deficiency of the Law in this respect, [12], [13], [14], [15]-[20]
—— further elucidated and explained, [381], [421], [422]
Die Sinkers for base Money, the number employed, [184]
Directions, and Cautions to avoid being cheated, [124], [125], [126], [127], &c.
—— As to the mode of proceeding in case of Fraud or Robbery, [383], n.
Dispensaries, in London, [574]
Distresses of the Poor arising from the delusion of the Lottery (See [Lottery]), [154], [155]
Docks in the River will not supersede the necessity of a River Police, [217], n.
Dock-yards, on the Plunder and Peculation therein, [249]-[287]
—— Fees to Officers one source of the Evil, [251]
—— Frauds in receiving, detaining, and selling Stores, [253]-[259]
—— The Perquisite of Chips, [256], [257], n.
—— The amount of Public Property in Navy, Victualing and Ordnance Stores, estimated at 7,000,000l., [260]
—— Laws now existing for protecting of this Property, [261]-[3]
—— Their deficiency, and Remedies proposed through the means of the Legislature, by A General Police System, [264]
—— A Local Police for the Dock-yards, [265]
—— Legislative Regulations in aid of these Systems, [269]
—— Through the Admiralty, by regulating the sale of old Stores, [274]-[280]
—— Abolishing the Perquisite of Chips, [281]
—— —— of Fees, and increasing Salaries, [282]
—— Improving the mode of keeping Accounts, [284]
—— Making an annual Inventory of Stores, [286]
Dollars, counterfeited, [173]
—— (stamped) the iniquities practised in counterfeiting and exporting, detected by the Author of this Work, [172], [173], n.
Draco, his sanguinary boast, [33]