A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
CONTAINING A DETAIL OF THE
VARIOUS CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
By which Public and Private Property and Security are, at
present, injured and endangered:
AND
SUGGESTING REMEDIES
FOR THEIR
PREVENTION.
The Sixth Edition, Corrected and Considerably Enlarged
BY P. COLQUHOUN, LL.D.
Acting as a Magistrate for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex.—
For the City and Liberty of Westminster, and for the Liberty of the Tower of London.
Meminerint legum conditores, illas ad proximum hunc finem accommodare; Scelera videlicet arcenda, refrænandaque vitia ac morum pravitatem.
Judices pariter leges illas cum vigore, æquitate, integritate, publicæque utilitatis amore curent exequi; ut justitia etvirtus omnes societatis ordines pervadant. Industriaque simul et Temperantia inertiæ locum assumant et prodigalitatis.
FOR JOSEPH MAWMAN, IN THE POULTRY,
SUCCESSOR TO MR. DILLY.
M.DCCC.
TO THE SOVEREIGN,
Who has graciously condescended to approve of the Author’s Efforts “To establish a System of Morality and good Order in The Metropolis:”
AND TO HIS PEOPLE;
In every Part of the British Dominions; whose favourable Reception of these Labours, for the Good of their Country, has contributed, in a considerable degree, to the Progress which has been already made, towards the Adoption of the Remedies proposed for the Prevention of Crimes, the Comfort of Society, and the Security of the Peaceful Subject:
This Improved and Enlarged Edition of
The Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, is humbly and respectfully
Dedicated.
LONDON,
Jan. 1, 1800.