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Magistrates, their Duty with regard to Public Houses (See [Alehouses].)
—— Their great utility when their Power and Influence are prudently and judiciously employed, [383], [422], [423]
—— The number Of Magistrates in the Metropolis, [270]
—— The number who sit daily in rotation, [417], [418]
—— The number of persons committed annually for Trial 2500 to 3000, [432], [433]
—— The mortification experienced by the Magistrates in seeing their labour lost in consequence of the chief of these Prisoners thrown back on Society without punishment, [432], [433]
—— A List of the City Magistrates, [504]
—— —— the Police Magistrates, [505]
—— Their Duty explained, [506]
—— Their Labours cramped for want of pecuniary Funds, [509], [510]
—— Magistrates with salaries necessary in every part of the Metropolis, and benefits arising from them, [517]
—— Avocations of the City Magistrates explained, [522]
Manslaughter defined, how punished, [44].
Marine Police Institution, Origin and Progress of, [239], [248]
—— Annual Advantages resulting therefrom to the West India Planters and the Revenue estimated at 160,000l. and upwards, [240], [241], n., [242], n.
—— The effect in restraining River Plunderers, [242], [244]
—— Necessity of its being sanctioned by Legislative Regulations, [245], &c.
—— Testimonies to the utility of the System, and the benefits it has already produced, [242], n., [247], [248, n.], [558], n.
—— The number employed in this Establishment, [399], n., [418]
Marriage, The evil consequence of the prevailing practice of Cohabitation without it, [340]
Martin, Matthew, Esq. his benevolent exertions for relieving the Poor, [360], [361], n.
Mayhem, Laws relative to it, [49]
Menial Servants, Their Morals corrupted, how, [154], [155]
Metals, Dealers in proposed to be regulated, [108], [540], [549]
Metropolis, vide [London].
Milk, curious particulars as to the Adulteration of, [89], [90], &c.
Misadventure, Homicide by, defined, [45]
—— how punished, [45], [46]
Misdemeanors, A list of them punishable by Law, [442]
Money counterfeit, vide [Coin].
Montesquieu, Baron, his opinion relative to Thefts, &c., [30], [53]
Morals, The moral Principles destroyed among the Lower Ranks, [11], [310], &c.
—— Can only be preserved by preventing Crimes, [14]
—— Bad education and bad habits destroy Morals, and are the chief causes of atrocious Crimes, [34], [35], [94], [95], [310], &c.
—— The deficiency of the System for guarding the Morals of the Lower Orders one great cause of the Corruption of Manners, [36]
—— Other Causes, The temptations of a great Capital, [35]
—— The habit of living improvidently and luxuriously, [312]
—— The temptation of fraudulent Lotteries, [151], [152], [159]
—— The Facilities held our by Pawnbrokers, Old Iron Shops, and other Receivers of Stolen Goods, enabling persons to raise Money on pilfered articles in an easy way, [288], [323]
—— The bad examples in ill-regulated Public Houses one great cause of the Corruption of Morals, [310]-[324]
—— The habit recently practised of Men, Women and Children spending their time in the Tap-rooms of Alehouses, where all sorts of Profligacy prevails, exhibited in language and conduct, [310], [314], [324]
—— The profligate Characters intrusted with Licences to keep Alehouses (See [Alehouses]), [325], [326]
—— The immoral or careless Education of Apprentices, [314]
—— The failure in Business by Mismanagement, Idleness, &c., [317]
—— Servants out of Place, [318]
—— The mode of Education and Superstition of the Jews, which prevent them from being apprenticed to Mechanical Employments, [319]
—— The vast temptations to plunder, which are held out to Lumpers, Scuffle-hunters, Mudlarks, Scullers, Lightermen, &c. on the Thames, from the want of proper Guards, and a proper System for protecting Property (See [River Plunder]—[Dock-yards]), [322]
—— The temptations held out to fraud from the shocking state of the Silver and Copper Coinage, and the imperfection of the Mint Laws, [171], [172]
—— The temptations held out in a great Metropolis from the resource which the influx of Wealth affords to commit acts of Criminality, giving so many opportunities to live in Idleness, [111], [112]
—— The deficiency of the Laws in not taking cognizance of Moral Crimes, [35], [36]
—— Morals of Public Depredators, [251]
Morality—Men of pure Morals make the best Subjects, [36]
—— Against its principle to punish small offences with Death, [59]
—— Societies for promoting it, [570]
Mudlarks, See [River Plunder], [230]
Murder, Laws relative to it, in this and other Countries, [43], [45]