| Westminster. | Bow-street, Covent Garden. | Sir William Addington, Knt. Nicholas Bond, Esq. Richard Ford, Esq. | Magistrates. |
| Mess. Lavender and Davies, | Clerks. | ||
| The following seven Public Offices were established by theAct 32 Geo. III. cap. 53. and continued for 5 years by 36Geo. III. cap. 75. | |||
| Queen's Square, St. Margaret's Westminster. | Cranley Thomas Kerby, Esq. Henry James Pye, Esq. Patrick Colquhoun, Esq. | Magistrates. | |
| Mess. Arthur Gliddon and J. Jones, | Clerks. | ||
| Great Marlborough-street, Oxford Road. | Nathaniel Conant, Esq. John Scott, Esq. Phillip Neave, Esq. | Magistrates. | |
| Mess. H.P. Butler and J. Thornton, | Clerks. | ||
| Middlesex. | Hatton Garden Holborn. | William Bleamire, Esq. Aaron Graham, Esq. Robert Baker, Esq. | Magistrates. |
| Mess. A. Todd and W. Upton, | Clerks. | ||
| Worship-street, Finsbury-Squ. | John Floud, Esq. William Brodie, Esq. John Nares, Esq. | Magistrates. | |
| Mess. Chas. Lush and J. Chalmers, | Clerks. | ||
| Lambeth-street, Whitechapel. | Rice Davies, Esq. Henry Reynett, D.D. Daniel Williams, Esq. | Magistrates. | |
| Mess. John Smith and J. Bailey, | Clerks. | ||
| High-street, Shadwell. | George Storie, Esq. John Staples, Esq. Rupert Clarke, Esq. | Magistrates. | |
| Mess. J. Rowswell and G. Skeen, | Clerks. | ||
| Surrey. | Union-street, Southwark. | Gideon Fournier, Esq. Benjamin Robinson, Esq. Richard Carpenter Smith, Esq. | Magistrates. |
| Mess. D. Campbell and J.A. Jallicoe, | Clerks. | ||
| Marine Police, Wapping New Stairs. | P. Colquhoun, Esq. superintending Magistrate, gratis John Harriot, Esq. Resident Magistrate Henry Lang, Esq. Chief Clerk William Brooke, Cashier Three Junior Clerks, and Ten Surveyors, &c. | ||
N.B. The whole Fees and Penalties taken and received at the seven Offices, established by 32 Geo. III. cap. 53. are paid into the Receiver on account of the Public, and the whole expences of the Establishments are defrayed from the funds placed in his hands for that purpose.
[156] The Marine Police Magistrates, on account of the extent of the Establishment, and the number of River Officers under their Control, never leave the Office from the time that business commences in the morning until a late hour in the evening.
[157] See Tract on Public Houses, by the Author of this Treatise.
[158] The Magistrates at the Marine Police confine their attention almost wholly to the cognizance of offences, either committed on the River, or connected with Maritime Affairs, and his Majesty's Stores in the Public Arsenals.
[159] It is by no means to be understood, that this deficiency arose from any want of real attention or public spirit on the part of the respectable individuals who framed and promoted this act. It was perhaps as much as could reasonably be expected at the time, until the public mind could be more fully informed. It was by the operation of this act, that a correct view of the improvements necessary to complete the System, were to be obtained. This first step was, therefore, of great importance; and it is but justice to state, that to the Authors of this Act the Public will be indebted for every subsequent arrangement, which may be adopted for perfecting the Police of the Metropolis.
[160] The Author having had occasion to represent to a late Chief Magistrate, of great talents and respectability, the enormous evil arising from base coin:—He very judiciously observed, that to do any good in protecting the Public against this species of offence, it would require the mind of a Magistrate to be given up to that object alone. This pointed and accurate remark is sufficient to elucidate, in an eminent degree, the necessity of Magistrates with salaries, in all large Communities.
[161] The Select Committee of the House of Commons on Finance, in their 28th Report (already repeatedly quoted), appear to be very strongly impressed with the necessity of Police Magistrates, and a Concurrent Jurisdiction for the City of London.—They express themselves in the following words: "It is further to be stated, that a considerable defect is felt in the Police of the Metropolis, from the limited jurisdiction of the present Magistrates in every part of it, and from the want of an Institution similar to that of the Police Offices to be established in the City of London, as was originally intended and proposed: that the delay which necessarily takes place in obtaining the sanction of the local Magistracy in either case, to the warrants of those presiding in other districts, operates in all cases to the advantage of offenders against the Laws, and to the obstruction of Public Justice: add to which, that the numerous and important avocations, both public and private, of the truly respectable Magistracy of the City, is too often inconsistent with that constant and unremitting attention which the due preservation of the Police of the Metropolis requires. That it would be unfortunate indeed if any local jealousy founded upon no just grounds, though entertained by honourable minds, should continue to deprive even the Inhabitants of the City itself, as well as those of the rest of the Metropolis, of that security which a more permanent attendance, and a perfect intercommunity of Jurisdiction in Criminal matters between the Magistrates of every part of the Metropolis, and of the five adjoining Counties, could not fail to produce."—See p. 13, 28th Report, 26th of June, 1798.
[162] If this were the case, neither the Bank, nor the avenues to every part of Cheapside, &c.[F] would be beset with gangs of rogues and sharpers, both men and women, who support themselves principally by the resource which the vast amount of moving property, in money and portable goods, affords them, in this part of the Metropolis; where, it appears, capital offenders are rarely detected; since, at the Old Bailey, those convicted in the course of a year, from the City and County, run in the proportion of about 1-7th part for London, and 6-7th parts for Middlesex.[G]