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

by Patrick Colquhoun

For Religious Instruction.

Of the Established Religion.	1	Cathedral, dedicated to St. Paul.
	1	Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster.
	120	Parish Churches.
	120	Chapels, and Chapels of Ease.
	242
Meeting-houses for Dissenters.	150	Consisting of Chapels for MethodistNonconformists, Presbyterians,Independents, Anabaptists,Quakers, and English RomanCatholicks.
Chapels and Meeting-houses for Foreigners.	30	Consisting of Chapels for French,German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish,and Helvetic Protestants,for Foreign Roman Catholics,and those of the Russian orGreek Church.
Synagogues	6	for the Jewish Religion.
Total about	428	Places of Public Worship.

The number of Inhabitants of this great Metropolis, occupying these various houses and buildings, may, under all circumstances, be rationally estimated at one million at least; for whose accommodation, convenience, and security, the following Institutions have been formed, namely,—1st. For Education;—2d. For promoting good Morals;—3d. For useful and fine Arts;—4th. For objects of Charity and Humanity;—5th. For distributing Justice;—and 6th. For punishing Offenders.