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THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of HIS MA 'ESTI": ORDNANCE of herd, ghee Notice, r at proposals will be received at their Office in Pall-Mall, oh ye belore WEDNESDAY, the 4th day of September next, it e m 'ltch Persons as may be willing to undertake the Supply of FORAGE for the Ordnance Horses stltioned in the following ithtriets. to be delivered at the Expense of the Contractor, viz. soRTH BRITAIN, idoRTHERN; rERN, exclusive of WARLEY; 'SOUTHERN, exclusive of CHATHAM, ;WESTER N, lOU rH-WEST, including PORTSMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, and CHRIST CHURCH, WOOLWICH with its Dependencies WARLEY and CH.IT HAM, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Pore period of Six Months from the ist October next. Th e (auto be rod, sweet, dry, and clean, without any mix ture of Foxy or Mowburbt Oats, and must not weigh less than or pounds per Wiaehester Bushel; the Hay to be sweet and dry, and delivered In Trusses of 561bs. weight. The straw to be good, clean, and dry Wheat or Rye Straw, an d delivered in Trusses of 361bs. weight. Th e oyes to be paid for the respective quantities of each-Ar• dole which may be delivered, at the following rates, viz. lathe Oats at per hundred pnends, Avoidupols weight. For the Hay at per hundred and twelve Pounds. lor the Straw at per hundred and twelve Pounds. The proposals maybe delivered separately or jointly for two or mare of the said Districts, and It is expected that the Contrac tor shall receive the Stably Dung, which, during the period of his Csotract, may accumulate, making an allowance for the same *her the rate of per Horse for Week. 'Farther particulars may be known upon application to the Officers Commanding the Royal Artillery in each District, and also at the fecretary's Office, in Pall-Mall, aforesaid, any day between the Ctrs of ten and four o'ek4k, where the Proposals must be de livered, sealed up and indorsed, " Proposals for Forage," but so Proposals can be admitted alter the said 4th of September, at 'riveter o'clock at noon of the same day, neither will any Tender be noticed unless the party making it, or an Mot is his behalf, stall attend. By Order of the Board. R. H. CREW. Secreta►v. EY . I'ON, Stock-Broker, 2, Cornhill ; and 18, XL Coventry-street, asbures his Ft ienils they wail approve the New State Lottery, a 4 the Scheme is formed to meet general ap• Imitation. It contains TWo Forty Thousands, Two Thirty Thousands, Iwo 'l•rn thousands, &c. Three per Cent.. Calsol.. Only 14.000 rickets Begins 17th of SEPTEMBER, when the Brit-drawn Prize will receive £40,000 in addition. El lON Las a variety of Ticketn and blares on Sale at his Formate Offices, as above, where, in the Contract just ended, the following Capitals wore sold and shared, and are now, paying on &moth 773 2,885 1,468 ie3,000 I 1,35 S 500 2,293 200 &c. &e. J2OO tod HISTORY OF INSECTS. 7111 i Oat was published, in svo. the Second Edition, enlarged and Improved. price ails. of AN INTRODUCTION ENTOMOLOGY; or, RUMEN I S of the NA rURAL HISTORY of IN SECTS. By WILLIAM KIRIiY, M A F.L.S. And WILLIAM SPENCE, Es 4. F.L. S. Volume the First, illustrated by Coloured Plates. This work is intended as a general and popular history of In ane. Ihe present volume contains an account of the injuries they occasion, the benefits derived from them, the nuttarnou phoses they undergo, their sifeetion for their young, their various kinds el flied, and the means by which they procure It; and Indy, a description of their habitations. 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The First Annual iteport on Madhouses in England. 12' The Public are respectftilly recommended, in ening di . rta.,_ _loos to their respecti ve Booksellers, to order " Ciemenes vadat Police Report, price only Seven Shillings," them being ell Edition edietised fee *ale by another Publisher, se Fifteen FRIDAY, AUGUST 39, 1816. general character; some of them have been condoc tors of the iiatrole, or in some such employ within the view of the Magistrates, for a great length of time; they have in some instances been otherwise recommended, but not within Sir Nathaniel's time; but always with characters that the Magistrates thought would answer the purposes of the Public-- He should always look to the establishment, and to the conductors in the first instance, and in the ap pointment of the eight Police Officers. Somme men also would possibly present themselves from other •Police Offices whose characters and qualifications were particularly desirable. In rewards given by Act of Parliament on the con •iction of a felon, the Court where the offender is tried settles the distribution of the money, and at order goes to the Sheriffs to pay it. At the Old Bailey, the Re corder appoints a time for all claimants to attend him at the end of the Sessions. The Act of the 4th Wil liam 111. provides, if there ia any dispute among the, claimants, the Judge shall apportion the reward in such way as be shall see lust; and the certificate spe cifies what each party is to receive. The advertise ments in the Gazette by the Secretary of State have two objects in view—a reward, which is generally specified to be paid by the party injured; and a par don to any accomplice who informs; these rewards are settled privately between the parties. Persons apprehending a burglar are entitled by Act of Parliament to a Tyburn ticket, or exemption from parochial duties in the parish where the offence is com mitted. Those tickets are once assignable, and per sons receiving them assign them to some inhabitant of the place, to whom only they are valuable. It there is any dispute as to the money arising from the sale, there is an apportionment by the Judge, as in the case of the ,C4O; and when sold, each claimant gets his share. They generally sell for about W2O. It is the 10th and I Ith of William under which persons are entitled to a Tyburn ticket. They become enti tled to it for discovering or apprehending► any bur glar, horse-steiler, or shop-lifter. In burglary, this certificate is superadded to the money that is paid by the statute of William and Mary, amounting to 440 on tit:- conviction for certain offences. The party aggrieved is generally the person bound over to prosecute; bat, in the Police-offices, if no other person is ostensible For that object, the Justices al mays bind over one of the police officers, or a constable, to do it; if he is a witness in any part of the case, he is bound over of course; but the apprehender is the per son entitled to the reward. When the Justices find the person aggrieved, they compel him to prosecute, and bind over all the witnesses who can give evidence in the prosecution. The officns regularly ask persons for money, on account of the time they have given up in their endeavours to find an offender. Tne Justices generally restrain this practice, but do not always think it their duty. If a banker came to Sir Nathaniel and said, that out of a mail coach 5 or ielo,ooo worth of bills had been taken the night before, and he wished , Sir Nathaniel would do every thing he could to dis cover it, or, rather, to get the property (for that would be the primary object), he should send per. haps six or eight o ffi cers in different directions, either to check the circulation of those notes, or to search for and apprehend the felons ; but he should tell the per son he must be at the charge of this expensive exer. deo s on the contrary, in all cases of great public con cern, he should, without any second consideration of any kind, direct the officers to use every exertion, with so view or expectation of other recompense than he should see occasion to give. It is not universally the practice for the officers of the police to ask for money from every individual who applies to the Office in consequence of having suf fered any injury to his person or property. There is a fee of ls. o for executing a warrant, and this increases according to the distance ; but there is a disposition in every person who applies to another to exert him self in objects personally interesting, to give some gratuity for the trouble and loss of time they occasion. Sir Nathaniel thinks the officer is entitled to say to the party prosecuting, I receive one guinea a-week in my engagement as a Police.officer : and because a person wishes that I should go 20 miles off, at a mi nute's notice, and employ all my time, I do net think that a guinea is a sufficient retainer for such excessive duty, possibly at the hazard of my life, and certainly at some expense. He has told them a hundred times, he would have the duty done upon all occasions of public concern. They receive their guinea a-week as a general retainer for objects of Police, which' they are subject to perform night and day. It is not at all universal that they take private rewards from indivi duals; and the Magistrates always control them where ever they can, andaecompense them from other funds. Sir Nathaniel thinks, that the system of the pay. ment of rewards for the detection of offenders is one productive of public benefit. He thinks, that every inducement that can be held out for the detection of offenders is desirable, and the expectation of pecu niary reward for their trouble is the greatest that can be ; and the Magistrates always reward them, where it is not expedient that they should have it from indi. viduals. He does not observe in practice, that there being no reward for the conviction of persons commit. tins small offences, makes it the interest of the Police to pay little attention to the detectibn of offenders.— He has not the least idea that . any person whom be has seen employed in the Police had the speculation of letting offenders continue in the career of small crimes in which they are engaged till they commit some felony by which the officers, or persons con nected with the Police, can take their share of the £4O settled by the Stfute on their conviction. He has heard it said, that " an offender was not yet ripe for detection"—that " he does not weigh £4O ypt." but has no knowledge of it in practice; and never blew any individual employed is the detection of of fenders neglect to take them, where these was evidence gobs found against them, upon such a speculation. The pecuniary rewards offered by indivichials cer• 'tajoly. we great stinsolants to the exertions of the Of fieere. The officer would/saw ssiploy his time what PRICE SEV RN-PRN t • h e could gain, than where he could not e ard, there fore, a reward for detecting small offences would ope:. rate. Certainly, the officer would rather be employed in detectingoffenders wherehecould be gaining money, than where he gained nothing. It would be an improvement of the present establish ment of the Pclice to allow the Magistrates to give small rewards for the detection of persons guilty of inferior offences, picking of pockets, &c. but it would ' be a great burden on the public account. The persons d!. A bed in the Statute as objects of reward, receiving tis technically called « blood money," are persons rtit employed by the Magistrates in the capacity of Police-officers : it is the party pro secuting or detecting, and frequently not a Police officer. If the party injured is-extremely poor and in capable of carrying on his prosecution. the Magis trate will, and frequently does, at his own private ex• pence, direct a Constable to carry on the prosecution, and, in some instances, even to maintain the party in jured, till the time of the trial; he has known that done in many instances. As to the ordinary costs of a common criminal pro secution, if the prosecutor has to maintain the wit. nesses during the time of the trial (which, at the Old Bailey, often requires an attendance of six or seven days) which he is not bound to do; but witnesses art not willing to stand at the door of a Court of Justice eight or ten hours in a day, for days together, with- out receiving refreshment, which will frequently cost the prosecutor four or £5, and, if he employs Coun sel and an Attorney, which is seldom absolutely ne. cessary, it will cost him more than double that : he should say, from 10 to £l2. From four to AO is the 'minimum of the expense, if the witnesses are to be maintained, and are long in attendance (but that is not compulsive) ; and the necessary expense would only Ic the indictment and a fee for swearing the witnesses; and these expenses are allowed by the Court, and also loss of time to poor witnesses, it arplied for. In this view, the necessary costs of a prosecutor in felony is nothing. The charne upon the county of Middlesex, for allowances at the Old Bailey, it more than £4OOO a year. It is asked, whether the ends of justice would be promoted, supposing the officers, who now receive a guinea a week, w. a ;.: to be allowed a larger sum by the public, and to be allowed their expenses, at the discretion of the Magistrates, for going into the coun. try, not being permired to take ally reward froM in dividuals. Sir Nathaniel answers, whatever facilitated the demand for %police officers, e , pecially to a dis tance, would require the number (,t police officers to be greatly increased; and he much doubts whether the advantage to the public would be adequate to the expense. _ _ There is now a discretionary power vested in the Magistrates, as to whether those officers should or should not be employed, for the Magistrates never stop a moment in case of a serious offence to the public it a person at the farthest end of the neigh bouring counties gave notice of a murder, or any atrocious offence being committed, one, two, or three officers wtesld be immediately sent to the spot for in formation, and others sent in all directions to search out the offenders ; and no party would ever be ap plied to for the expense. In every case in which the assistance of a Bow•street officer is demanded, the Magistrates always grant it, when it is near hand; but where much expense is to be incurred, they hold a discretion over the application, and the applicant is told it must be at his own expense, the case not being sufficiently a public concern to incur large expenses. All the expenses the Magistrates countenance are the ' officer's journey backwards and forwards by the stage coach, and perhaps a guinea a day far his other ex penses and trouble. The Magistrates would be guided a gond deal, in giving the assistance of a Bow-street officer, by the disposition of the party to pay the expenses ; but to the poor, or in cases purely of a public nature, nO charge is ever countenanced by the Magistrates. The provision of the Office in Bow-,treet, applica ble to distant objects, is eight constables or police officers, and three Magistrates, always upon the spot, to use their best endeavours for the furtherance of the public security : their legal powers are confined to the county of Middlesex and neighbourhood of the metropolis; but they extend their endeavours towards the preservation of the public peace, and the appre hending of felons, to every part of the kingdom, whenever it is found desirable. The Magistrates at Bow-street have communica tions with die seven Police Offices, and with the City Establishments of Police, upon all pressing occasions, but not as to lesser offences, or by any regular sys tem. The Offices all act independently of each other, except where special circumstances may tall for ge neral co-operation. Sir Nathaniel personally communicates with the Secretary of State every day ; and, indeed, all the Police Offices communicate to the Secret try of State all matters of deep public interest. It it were con fined to objects of great atrocity, or rfleat importance, it would be well to have one central Police Establish theft, Which might be the organ to thetovetnment, and under which all the We; different Establish ments should be considered to be ;by which means there would be formed a regul ir system of commu nication from all the different inferior Po:ice Esta. blishments in the metropolis directed to one object; but if every sort of cfrence that is committed and brought to the Offices were sent Over to a central point, the lessee offences (although, perhaps, felonies) would be infinitely the greater 'number, and there could be no practical benefit from their being com municated from one end of the town to the other; and it would throw a cloud over the whc'li transac tion, and the few important cases would be obssoired by the number of indefinite con nianications. , It has been thought that the City of London, being jealous of their privileges, impeded the search after felons; but, in fact, the City Magistrates have always been desirous of facilitating the pursuit of offenders. (To be contiotreds) POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS. MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE COM• -MITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMON 4, ON THE STATE OP THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS. The Hon. HiNRY GRZY BENNZT in the Chair. Sir NATHANIEL. CONANT, Chief Magistrate or the Police Establishment at Bow=street, examined._ _ There are three Justices at this Office, Sir Natha niel Conant, J. Noses, Esq. and R.. Birnie, Certain police officers and constables attend all night; as well as by day to be ready if any disturbance of the public peace occurs . ; and the Magistrates, when they leave the Office give orders to have immediate notice if any exigency arises: a clerk resides in the house to act and give directions as occasion may re. quire. The Office opens with the clerks and officers at ten in the morning, and earlier if circumstances require : the Magistrates make a point of being there about eleven, the clerks having prepared matter; which are to come before them. One Magistrate at tends on each day—they sit. much oftener till Akar four o'clock than any ether hour; but three is the nominal time, if the business is entirely dine. They return at seven, but if there k any pressing occasion, or any expectation of urgent business, they always go to the Office without regard to the hour. The Magis trate leaves the Office soon after eight, if no business is expected ; but before he goes, inquiry is made at the public theatres and other places, whether every thing is quiet ; if not, he stays till twelve o'clock, or all night : if necessary. The Justices take two days a week each. In cues of illness of any one, the others take his turn ; and during any short vacation, the two Magistrates agree to accommodate the third by taking his duty during his absence.—They, are subject to no positive regulation, but take the attendance always with a view to the public exigency.—Sir Nathaniel himself has been, in times of riot and disturbance, in constant attendance, both night and day, for a fort night together, without ever seeing his own house. There are 87 patrole attached to the Office, and 13 conductors of that patrole, making together 100 pa. trole ; and eight police officers besides, who have ge neral duties. The salary of the latter is one guinea prr week each : the patrole are psi '23 61 per night for their patrole, the cnnductor ss. per night. They have no other source of cmolutnents as conductors of the patrole ; but individual, of them have, in the day. titne, employments under the Office, such as , door. keeper and messenger, for which they receive addi. tional salaries. The conductors derive no profits from the establishment, in the nature of share of rewards on convictions; but, in common with other persons who are within the distribution of rewards upon COG viction by Act of Parliament, they, for a person they may have apprehended in the course °I their duty, would, from the Judges at the time.of the trial, re. ,ceive a certificate for the rewards which the Acts of Parliament give them; they are not excluded irsms that by their appointment. The Justices allow; in another way, all the patrole attached to the office, ss. a day for their trouble in attending Courts of Justice to give evidence, and for special duty in the day; upon this principle, they look upon them as engaged to the office for their night duty.of 'wrote, end what arises to be done i* the day-time (which is their own time) they give them occasional allowance for. This is the case with the whore body of the patrole, who are specially engaged for night duty only ; and they have the same share of rewards arising from convic tion as the conductors or any other individual. The Police Officers receive profits arising frog being employed by individuals for the detection of robberies. These rewards are paid by the parties themselves, subject, sometimes, to a reference to the Magistrates; but in general the parties themselves induce the officers to assist them in their objects, and they pay them according to their private dispositions. It is very nommen for an individual who has suffered any great injury to offer rewards of a very large amount ; a banker will sometimes offer 4600 for the ! apprehension of his clerk, who Inky have absconded with thousands; and persons otherwise injured, and extremely interested in a detection, will advertise to , the public large sums: this the Police Officers take into their view, and naturally are stimulated in their exertions by the hope of obtaining it. The effect of this is not to lessen the exertions of the Police in those cases where the reward is not offered, according to Sir Nathaniel's apprehension of the particular charac- , ter of the men who are employed as Officers at this time in Bow-street ; he thinks, though they would be stimulated by the view of greater reward, the exertion of their ordinary duty is not relaxed by the absence of it. Those large rewards being offered by indivi duals, certainly act in some degree in the nature of expedition money paid in some public departments, by which, though one particular case may be for. warded, the general effect is that of throwing back all the others; but the impediment towards the public is not very great, while other Officers re main to execute the other business. Sir Nathaniel thinks, that in a certain degree, people let crimes go unpunished because they are sure that, unless great rewards are offered, there is little chance of the de tection of the offender ; but he does not think, from his observation, that the class of men immediately employed upon this establishment would forego the exercise of their general duty because no particular reward was offered. He thinks men of bad character will prefer their interest to their duty, their personal safety to the board of any personal danger. Certainly if in any one of the establishments, either at Bow-street er at the seven Police-offices, there should be any in dividual employed whose character would be consi dered as bad, in the same proportion his exertions would be relaxed ; a man of such character •would avoid personal danger and extraordinary exertion. would be destitute of the aftrit beryls which actuates men engaged in this employ to pursue public dere• dates at the halberd of their lives ; independent !, any pecuniary consideration. The t Officers Bow-steert are selected by Wag • of tide'.