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Rape, Laws Relative, to it in England, Death by 18 Eliz. c. 7, [47]
The Egyptian Law relative to this Crime, ib.
The Athenian ditto, ib.
The Roman ditto, ib.
The Jewish ditto, ib.
Receivers of Stolen Property:
Receivers of Cash, or Bank Notes, not punishable, [8]
nor of Horses and Cattle, [9], n.
3000 estimated to be in the Metropolis, [10]
The greatest encouragers of Thieves, [9]
Their wonderful increase in the last 20 years, [12]
Restraints upon them a public benefit, [13], [14], [104]
Make previous contracts with Thieves, [103], [291]
Hostlers at Watering Houses often Receivers of Corn, &c., [88]
Journeymen Butchers receive Cattle, [104]
Receivers considered separately, [Cap. VIII.], [288], [308], &c.
The chief cause of Public Depredation, [289]
The different Classes detailed, [292], [293]
By 3 and 4 William and Mary, c. 9. made Accessaries after the fact, [294]
By 4 Geo. I. c. 11. punishable by Transportation for fourteen Years, [295], [301]
The Laws enumerated relative to Receivers, and their defects pointed out, [293], [301]
A proposition to make the Receiving Stolen Goods an original Offence, [302]
Remedies proposed under eight different heads by regulating certain Classes of Dealers, [303], [307]
A System of inspection recommended, [308]
Applied to for their assistance in recovering valuable Property which is stolen, [384]
Religion, Places of Public Worship in the Metropolis, [568]
Register of delinquency proposed to be kept by the Central Board of Police, [554]
Remedies for Evils mentioned in this Work:
To remove the Imperfections in the Criminal Code, [24]
To improve the System of the Hulks, [27]
To improve also the Mode of Transportation, and the Employment of Convicts, [481], &c.
To establish National Penitentiary Houses, [457], [460]
To improve the System in granting Licences to Public Houses—See [Alehouses].
To regulate Dealers in Old Iron, Metals, Stores, Old Wearing Apparel, Founders of Metals, &c. by Licence, [304]
To improve the Laws relative to the prevention of Pillage and Plunder in the River Thames—See [River Plunder].
To improve the Laws relative to the prevention of Frauds, Embezzlements, Pillage and Plunder in Ships of War, and Transports, and in the Naval and other public Arsenals (See [Dock-yards]), [26], [253], [254], [255], [256], [257], [258]
To prevent Highway Robberies and Burglaries, [103]
To prevent the Coinage of base Money, and the Sale and Circulation of the same, [190], [211]
To prevent the evil effects of the Devices of Cheats, Swindlers, Gamblers and fraudulent Persons, viz.
Swindlers in general, [113], [150]
Fraudulent Pawnbrokers, [109]
Hawkers and Pedlars, [116]
Puffing diurnal Auctioneers, [117]
Puffing Money Lenders, [118]
Illegal Lottery Insurers, [151], [162]
Itinerant Jews, [147], [148]
Various Classes of Cheats and Swindlers, &c. with Cautions to Tradesmen and others to beware of them, [131]
A general Remedy proposed, [131], [132]
To prevent the evil of receiving Stolen Goods, and through this medium the Commission of Robberies, Burglaries, Thefts, Larcenies, Embezzlements, Frauds and Swindling, &c. under eight different heads, [302], [303], [304], &c.
To prevent Justice from being defeated in the apprehension of Offenders, by Rewards to Officers and others apprehending them (See [Rewards]), [392], [393]
To prevent Frauds in the trial of Offenders by appointing a Prosecutor for the Crown, [21], [26]
To proportion all punishments to the nature of the Offence, and to abolish sanguinary and severe Punishments, [28], [29], [59], [60]
To improve the System with regard to Pardons—(See [Pardons]), [27]
To improve the System of Police for the Metropolis, by establishing a Fund for Rewards, [509], [512]
To establish a concurrent Jurisdiction over the whole of the Metropolis, [419], [420]
To establish Police Magistrates in London, [513], n.
To establish a Board of Police as a centre point, where a responsible superintending agency, under the Secretary of State for the Home Department, should be pledged to attend to the great outlines of the Police of the Metropolis—(See [Police]), [25], [26]
A System for the more easy recovery of small Debts, [584], [585], [586], [587]
To improve the Municipal Police, by extending the same Laws, Penalties and Punishments to every part of the Metropolis, [599], &c.
General View of all the Remedies proposed in this Work, against the existing Evils which at present infest the Metropolis, [Ch. XX.] [p. 602], &c.
Restraints imposed on Criminal People cannot affect the Liberty of the Subject, [13]
Those already established to obtain Revenue, severer, [14]
Revenue of the Customs greatly injured by River Plunder, [241], n.
Rewards—To be given by Magistrates in order to enable them to detect offenders—The utility explained, [509]-[511]
Rewards necessary to all classes of Public Officers of Justice, for the purpose of exciting vigilance, [409], [410]
Rewards granted at present for ten specific Offences, detailed, [390], [391]
Amount paid by Sheriffs from 1786 to 1797, £.94,430, [393], n.
Rewards paid on Prosecutions at the Old Bailey from Sept. 1790 to 1791, [394], [395]
Small Rewards recommended for detecting inferior Offences, [393], [394]
The quantum of the Reward to be left to the discretion of the Judge, and allowed according to the merit of the parties, whether there is a conviction or not, [393], [396]
Rewards proposed for the detection of Coiners and Utterers of Base Money, [207]
For the detection of Plunderers in the Dock-yards, [272]
River Plunder, its amazing extent, probably not less than Half a Million per annum, [Cap. VIII.], [215], [237], [238], [239]
Yet not exceeding 15s. per Cent. on the value of the Property exposed, [215], [216], & table
13,000 Vessels and more discharge and receive three millions of Packages annually in the River, [217]
Various classes of River Plunderers.
River Pirates, (particular instances of their audacious Depredations), [218], [220]
Night Plunderers, [220], [223]
Light Horsemen, or nightly Plunderers of West India Ships, [223], [226]
Heavy Horsemen, or Lumpers, [226], [227]
Game Watermen, ibid.
Game Lightermen, [228], [231]
Mud-Larks, [230]
Revenue Officers, [231], [232]
Scuffle-hunters, [233], [234]
Copemen, or Receivers, [235], [236]
See further [Marine Police].
Robberies and Burglaries—not prevented by the Police System of 1792, and the reason why, [509]
Chiefly for want of giving small Rewards, [510]
Robbery, defined, [54]
Roman Laws, relative to Murder, Theft, [41], [51]