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]
E.
Education, The great inattention to in the lower ranks one cause of Crimes, [34], [311]
—— Seminaries for, in the Metropolis, estimated at 4050, [569]
Egyptians, Their Laws for the punishment of certain offences, [41]
Embezzlement of Public Stores. See [River Plunder]—[Dock-yards].
Emperor Joseph the Second abolished the punishment of Death, [60]
—— His edict on promulgating his New Criminal Code, [61]
—— Abstract of his New Code, [63]
—— A singular Anecdote concerning this Prince, [528], [529]
Estimates, That Receivers of stolen Goods have increased from 300 to 3000 in the Metropolis, [9], [12]
—— of moving Property on the River Thames (table), [215]
—— —— arriving, departing, and circulating in the Port of London, [216], [217]
—— —— belonging to the Public, Naval, and Warlike Stores, &c., [260]
—— of Chips in Dock-yards, [256], [257], n.
—— of Streets, Houses, and Families in London, [411], n.
—— of Public Houses, [110]
—— of Persons employed in fraudulent Lotteries, [156], n.
—— of the number of Members of Friendly Societies, [157]
—— of the number of Jews, [147], [148]
—— of the Officers of Justice, Beadles, Watchmen, and Patroles 2044, [413], [414]
—— of Magistrates, acting in the Metropolis, [416], [417], [418]
—— of Convicts, and others discharged from Prisons, [96], n., [97]
—— of Prisoners tried in 1793 and 1754, [448]
—— of the Produce of Labour of Convicts in the Hulks (See [Convicts]: [Police]), [467]
Exports from the River Thames in one year 29,640,000l. (table), [215], [216]
F.
Farmers, petty Depredations on them, [86], [89]
Faro Tables and Games of Chance, their evil Tendency, [135], [136]
—— particularly in private Houses of Persons of Rank, [148]
Felo de se, how punished by different Laws, [43], [44]
Felonies, Public and Private defined, [43]
—— A specific Detail of the different Felonies, distinguishing the Punishments, [437], [438], [439], [440], [441]
Female Prostitution. See [Prostitutes].
| Fielding, Henry Fielding, Sir John | Excellent Magistrates, &c., [453], n. |
Finance Committee of the House of Commons, their useful Labours and Opinions on various Subjects (See [Police]), [251], n., [264], [419], [427], [469], [514], [516], [558], n.
Fires in London, the Laws relative to them, [597], [598]
Forcible Marriage, how punished by different Laws, [48]
Foreign Coin counterfeited in England, [17], [18], [184], [190]
Foreigners, their opinion of the English System of Police, [522]
—— the insecurity likely to arise from so many of them acquiring a knowledge of the English Language, [530]
Fortune-tellers, their evil tendency, &c., [128], [130]
Founders of Metals, an object of regulation as a means of preventing Crimes, [10], [540], n.
France, its Laws relative to Receivers of stolen Goods, [302], n.
—— —— to Sodomy, [46]
—— its former Police, curious Anecdotes of, [525]
Frauds on the Public in the Metropolis:
—— in the Naval Department of two sorts, [256], [257]
—— and Forgeries specifically detailed, [111], [112], &c.
French language, the inconvenience and insecurity from its being so generally spoken, [530]
Friendly Societies, an Estimate of the number of Members, [575]
—— a proposition to guard them against the Evils of the Lottery, [157]
G.
Gaming, among the lower Ranks in Public Houses, a vast source of Crimes, [324]
—— the Law relative to, and Penalties, [134], [135]
—— the systematic confederacy of certain Gaming Establishments fully developed, [136]-[147]
—— Estimated amount of the Money annually lost and won by Gaming, [143]
—— the evil Consequences of Gaming, and dreadful effects to many respectable Families, [148]
—— the bad example to menial Servants of Persons of Fashion, [150], [151]
Gin, the astonishing quantity drank in London, [327], n.
—— the advantages arising from a High Price, [328], n.
Grecian Law relative to Sodomy, [46]
—— —— to Polygamy, [49]