—— Tried at the Old Bailey from Sept. 1790 to 1791, [394]
—— Tried at the Old Bailey from April 1793 to 1794, [448]
—— Tried in the year 1795, their Crimes and Sentences, [446], [447]
—— Committed annually for trial in the Metropolis from 2,500, to 3,000, [96]
Prisons in the Metropolis, [331], [582]
Prosecutor for the Crown—The Utility of such an Establishment, [21], [26]
The injury occasioned by the want of it in defeating Justice, [426], [427]
A severe Burden on the subject to prosecute, [426]
Further Reasons in favour of the Proposition, [430], [432], [539]
Prostitutes—Their unhappy Situation, and the dreadful consequences of it, [Cap. XII.], [333]
The evil cannot be prevented, but may be alleviated, [337]
Number of Prostitutes of various classes estimated at 50,000, [340]
Proposals for regulating them not inconsistent either with Religion or Morality, [343]
The Example of Holland and India quoted, [345]
Public Houses, vide [Alehouses].
Punishments—defeat their ends by too much Severity, [6]
Death should be inflicted as seldom as possible, ibid.
Disproportionate to the Offences, [6], n., [8]
A Definition of Punishments, [29]
Should be proportioned to the Offence, &c., [29], [30]
The objects of inflicting Punishments, ibid.
General Rules relative to Punishments, [32], [33]
The Severity of Punishments exposed, [34], [35], [36], [94]
Punishments examined as they apply to the various Offences known in the English Law, [38], [39], &c.
Punishments by the new Code of the Emperor Joseph, [60], [63]
Marquis Beccaria's Opinion and Maxims, [53], n.
The System of Punishments fully considered, [Cap. XVI.], [434]-[500]
Punishments inflicted on various Offences by the English Law, [437], [438], [439], &c. &c.
Punishments as now regulated tend to increase Crimes, (See [Convicts]), [449]-[452]
Q.
Quarter Sessions of the Peace:
—— and General Sessions of Middlesex, in certain Cases, act under a Commission of Oyer and Terminer, [445]
—— Held in London, eight times a year, [428]
—— in Westminster, four times a year, ibid.
—— in Middlesex, eight times a year, ibid.
—— in Tower Liberty, eight times a year, ibid.
—— in Surry, four times a year, ibid.
Quays—Plunder committed upon—See [River Plunder].
R.
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]
S.
Salaries, proposed to be increased to the Servants of the Crown, on the abolition of Perquisites, [282]
Sartine, M. de, Minister of Police in Paris, two singular Anecdotes of, [525], [526], &c.
Saxon Laws relative to Murder, [44]
Schools in the Metropolis, [569]
Scuffle-hunters, A class of Labourers who hunt after Work when Ships are discharging, chiefly with a view to plunder, [233], [234]
Sequin of Turkey, counterfeited in London, [18], [184], [190]
Servants—Corrupted by the temptations of the Metropolis, [12]
Particularly by the Lottery, [153], [155]
Sewers, their origin and great utility, the Acts relative to them, [591]
Sharpers, an account of noted Females concerned in different kinds of Frauds, [127], [130]
Sharpers and Swindlers, their various devices to defraud the Public, [114], [115]
—— Ought to find security for their Good Behaviour, [135]
Ships, in the River Thames, the Loss and Inconvenience arising from the
present mode of discharging, (See [River Plunder])
Silk Manufacturers of Spital-Fields, their Address of Thanks for the
Establishment of the Police System in 1792, [519], [520], n.
Societies in London for Morals, Arts, &c., [570], [571]
Society for the Relief of Persons imprisoned for small Debts, an excellent Institution, [589]
Sodomy, the Laws relative to it, and the Punishment, [46]
—— Introduced into England by the Lombards, ibid.
Soup Charities, their peculiar excellence in relieving the Poor, [81], [82], n., [356]
Southwark, the Acts relative to its Police, [594]
Spirituous Liquors, the astonishing Consumption of, &c., [327], n.
Statutes, See [Acts of Parliament].
Statute Law—Necessity of its Revisal, and the steps taken for that purpose, [7], n., [32]
Stolen Goods, See [Receivers].
Stores, Government, See [Embezzlement]; [Naval Embezzlements]; [Acts], [257]
Streets in the Metropolis, estimated at 8000, [411]
Sugars, the Plunder of, estimated at £.97,000 a year, lost by the Planters and Merchants, and £.25,000 by the Revenue, [241], n.
—— Annual losses by Samples, £.60,000 and upwards, [235], n.
Suicide, the effect of Gambling in the Lottery, [144], n.
Summary View of the Causes of the Insufficiency of the Police, under nine different heads, [24], [25], [26], [27]
—— Of Prisoners committed in one year, [429]
Superstition of the Jews, See [Jews].
Swindlers, See [Sharpers].
T.
Tea Gardens, Public Evils, [345]
—— Proposals for regulating them, [347]
Thames (River) See [River Plunder]—[Marine Police].
Thefts (petty) Causes and Progress of, [Cap. III.], [74], & seq.
—— By Persons not belonging to the Fraternity of Thieves, estimated at £.700,000, [10]
—— From Ships in the River and upon the Wharfs, See [River Plunder].
—— From Dock-yards, Ships of War, &c. See [Dock-yards].
—— Burglaries, Highway Robberies, &c., [93], [94], [103]
Theft. First punished with Death by Henry I. 1108, [52]
The Laws relative to Theft in this and other Nations, [51]
Thieves. Professed Thieves not intimidated when put on their Trial; reasons assigned, [424], [425], [426], [449], [450]
The different classes of persons who resort to thieving and robbing, [95], [96]
Many Thieves taken off by the War, but many remain behind on account of ruptures and other disabilities, which, however, do not prevent their committing Crimes, [99], [100]
The means used by them to accomplish their purposes, [100], [105], [291]
Tokens, Provincial Coins, respecting which Regulations are proposed, [198]
Transportation, when first introduced as a Punishment, [454]
Offences punishable in this way detailed, [440]
Expence of the Transportation of Convicts to New South Wales, and their Confinement in the Hulks, [460], [469]
Travelling Police, A plan of hinted at, [109], n.
Treason, The Laws relative to it explained, viz:
Of High Treason, [38], [39], [40]
The great inaccuracy of the Act of Edward III. in blending together Crimes disproportionate in their nature, [39]
The Laws of China relative to High Treason, [40]
Petty Treason, how punished, [41]
Twenty Thousand rise every morning in the Metropolis, without knowing how they are to be subsisted through the day, [313], n.
Tyburn Ticket, A premium given for apprehending and prosecuting Burglars, House-Breakers and Horse-stealers, explained, [391], n.