N.
Naval Embezzlements and Plunder, &c.
Reasons why not heretofore corrected, [252]
Gratuities given, a great evil, [251]
The Depredations enormous (See [River Plunder]—[Dock-yards]), [253]
New South Wales, Transportation there when first legalized (See [Convicts]), [460], [462]
Night Coaches, a great means of promoting Burglaries, [105]
—— Propositions for regulating them, [106], [305], [547], [556], [557]
O.
Offences, 160 punishable with Death, [58]
Some not punishable by the Laws, [8], [30], [35]
A general List of the various classes of Offences, [437], &c.
See further [Punishments].
Officers of Justice—Their Zeal always proportioned to that shewn by the Magistrates under whom they act, [384]
The importance of choosing men of Respectability, ibid.
The absurd prejudices against Officers of Justice, [385]
The Antiquity and Power of the Officers of Justice, [386]
Number of them in the Metropolis, [397], [411], n.
Officers subjected to considerable risks, [400]
Ought to be rewarded—vide [Rewards].
Old Bailey—Its registers shew the necessity of a Prosecutor for the Crown, [21]
Trials anno 1790 and 1791, eight Sessions, [394], [395], [396]
Idem and Convicts 1793 and 1794, [448]
Old Iron Shops, Owners for the most part, generally Receivers—(See [Receivers]), [10]
Origin of Crimes, Traced to Alehouses—Bad education of Apprentices—Servants out of Place—Jews—Receivers—Pawnbrokers—Low Gaming-Houses—Smuggling—Prisons, [Chap. XI.] [310]-[332]
—— Female Prostitution (See [Prostitutes]), [Ch. XII.] [333]-[345]
—— Tea Gardens, [346], [347]
—— Ballad Singers, [348], [349]
—— State of the Poor (See [Poor]), [Chap. XIII.] [351]-[380]
P.
Pagoda, of Arcot, counterfeited in London, [17], [184], [190]
Pardons—The devices used to obtain them, [22]
Granted to four-fifths of those found guilty of death, [449]
Marquis Beccaria's Opinion of Pardons, [450], n.
Impositions practised to obtain them, ibid.
Conditions under which they ought to be granted, [451]
The evil consequences of free Pardons, [451], [452]
A tacit disapprobation of the Law, (Beccaria), [59]
Parents, their Profligacy and inattention to the Education of their Children, [311], &c.
Parochial Officers in the Metropolis, [397], [398], [416]
—— of little use to the Police in the Metropolis, why, [400]
Parricides, their punishment by the Roman Law, [41]
By the Chinese and Egyptian Laws, ibid.
Patroles and Watchmen, their number, [399]
—— frequently conspire with Thieves, [106], [108]
Pawnbrokers hold out many temptations to the Poor, [115]
—— A proposition for regulating them, [116], [550]
—— To give security for good behaviour, [116]
—— The number in London and the Country, [115], n.
—— The immense amount of the Goods of the Poor at all times in their hands, [116], n.
Peace, an epoch when much danger is to be apprehended in the return of Criminals, [100], [529], [530]
Peace-Officers—Safeguards of the Community, [384], [385]
—— The ill effects of the absurd prejudice against them, [385]
—— The number in the Metropolis, [408], [413], [414]
Penitentiary Houses. Two national ones authorised, but never erected, [456], [457], [459]
An Inspector of Penitentiary Houses should be appointed, (See [Convicts]), [460]
Penny-Pieces, 40 Millions of them coined by Mr. Bolton of Birmingham, [186], n.
—— why not likely to be much counterfeited, [183], n.
Petty Larceny, how punished, [50], [51]
Pewter Pots and Pewter, purchased by Dealers in Old Iron—Protected by Act 21 Geo. 3d. c. 69, [299]
Piracy a capital offence, [55]
Pirates on the River, their audacious conduct, (See [River Plunder]).
Plunder on the River, and [Dock-yards] (See those titles).
Police—The advantages resulting from it when well regulated, [1], [2]
The insecurity from a deficient Police no where so great as in England, [3], [4]
One cause for the increase of Criminals is the insufficiency of the Police, [4], [310]
The specific causes of the deficiency explained, and the means of improvement, [24], [25], [26]
The disjointed State of the Police one of the causes of the increase of Stolen Goods, [289]
The Establishment of an active Principle strongly enforced, [307]
The expences of the Police might be defrayed by itself, under an improved System, [410]
No place of Industry provided by the Police for discharged Prisoners, (See [Convicts]), [99]
Police of the Metropolis explained, [503]
City and Police Magistrates now acting, their Names, [504], [505]
Their Duty explained, [506], [507]
Inconveniences arising from want of Funds, Robberies and Burglaries not prevented, from this among other Causes, [509], [510]
Police Magistrates should have power to give small Rewards for useful Services, [510], [511]
Police Magistrates necessary in all large Societies, [514]
Police Magistrates have nothing to do with Politics, [517], n.
Police System approved by the Manufacturers of Spital Fields, [519], [520], n.
The great deficiency of the System for want of a Centre Point, [520]
Constitutional superintendence of Police rests with the Secretary of State for the Home Department, [521], [522]
The increase of State Business, and the increase of Crimes, renders a delegation of subordinate management necessary, [520]
The utility and absolute necessity of such a System explained, [521], [522]
The opinion of Foreigners of the Police of London, ibid.
The Police of France under the old Government, observations upon it illustrated by two Anecdotes of M. de Sartine, [524], [525], &c.
The situation of this as well as every Country in Europe makes a correct System of Police necessary, on account of the profligate Characters who will infest the Metropolis on the return of Peace, [529], [530]
A Board of Police proposed as the only means of binding together a disjointed System, and of giving it that energy which the interest of the Country requires, [531]
The new System of Central Police recommended by the Finance-Committee fully detailed and explained, [Chap. XVIII.], [535]
Reasons suggested by the Committee, [535]-[539]
The leading object the prevention of Crimes, and the raising a Revenue by Licence Duties, [540], [541]
Trades proposed to be Licensed, [540], n., [549], [550]
Expence of the Police of the Kingdom near £216,000, [542], [543]
A Central Board of Police Revenue to be formed by the consolidation of the two Boards of Hackney Coaches, & Hawkers, &c., [542]-[545]
The Licensing System to be extended over the Kingdom under the Controul of this Board, [545]-[547]
Functions of the Commissioners of this Central Board of Police amply detailed under 20 heads, [547]-[558]
Outline of the Bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for establishing this Central Board of Police, [559], &c.
Polygamy, an improved mode of punishment for, [49]
Poor, their Distresses, [312], [313], n.
—— Particularly from the Lottery delusion, [151], [152]
—— State of, [Cap. XIII.], [352]-[380]
—— Casual, the erroneous System respecting them one great cause of the increase of Crimes, [351]
Estimate of Voluntary Contributions for their Relief, £850,000 per Ann., [358]
Present expence of the Casual Poor not less than £10,000 per Ann., [362], [363]
This Relief ill applied, ibid.
Propriety of consolidating and superintending this Relief, [364]
Poverty not an Evil if it does not degenerate into Indigence, [365], [366]
The Poor divided into five Classes:
The useful and industrious, [366]
Vagrant, [367]
Indigent, [368]
Aged and Infirm, [369]
Infants, ibid.
The Statute 43 Elizabeth unexceptionable in its principle, but its execution deficient, [370], [373], [575]
Proposals for a Pauper Police, to regulate Street Beggars and Casual Poor, [373]-[376]
Expence thereof £5,230 to be defrayed by contributions from the Parishes proportioned to the sums now paid by them for Casual Relief, ibid.
Benefit of consolidating the Funds of all the Parishes in the Metropolis, [377], [378]
The System should be perfected by the joint efforts of well-informed individuals, ibid.
Prisoners. An Asylum proposed for those that are discharged, to prevent their returning to evil practices for want of Work, (See [Convicts]), [97], [98], n., [486]
—— Abstracts of the number committed and discharged in the Metropolis in the course of a year, ending Oct. 1795 (Table), [430]
—— Number discharged from the eight Gaols in the Metropolis in a period of four years:
| —— —— 1st. by Proclamation | 5,592 | [96], [97] |
| —— —— 2d. Acquittals | 2,962 | |
| —— —— 3d. After Punishment | 2,484 | |
| 11,038 |
—— Discharged from 1792 to 1799:
| —— —— 1. | 8,650 | ||
| —— —— 2. | 4,935 | ||
| —— —— 3. | 6,925 | ||
| 20,510 | [97] | ||
| —— —— from the Hulks, ditto | 11,383 | ||
| 21,893 | [98] |