[97] Bunce's History of the Corporation of Birmingham (1878).

[98] History of Birmingham (2nd edition), p. 327.

[99] The first edition, 1795, the sixth, from which I quote, in 1800. In Benthams Works, x. 330, it is said that in 1798, 7500 copies of this book had been sold.

[100] In 1814 Colquhoun published an elaborate account of the Resources of the British Empire, showing similar qualities.

[101] Police, p. 310.

[102] Police, p. 105.

[103] Ibid. p. 13.

[104] Ibid. p. 211.

[105] Ibid. p. 136.

[106] Police, p. 60.