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i 1 I 1 i 4. I i• 4 '.. p . ' II . 4 7 . , .4 • , .:; .t 111 L. r. c 1 ~ 1 ) - ... . i. . .. :I .. 0 i i f f.... . , 1 . . ii i 1:,1:.• , . i . : A ' I! • . k •,4 1,. ' 1 • , *) -.. 1 1,. sat awn lowititlei few Wel ; Ile ....f Mier' eau •517 bs jselilled ales memoir, foe she pommel of safe Mara) , ; soil is • prism; ohm the farlos-roseiets *re gm lame& dm frltariss proposers els are ovailyr titanium ties ie, io tbe Palsies of your Coagulative, unwarrantable. Here Ibe description of the Prison is moot' il Milder the Ire. ds of " Visiting Migistrates" must " Attendance." The Report then pies teed' tho• ~Ohm —Toter Committee cannot refer to this sate jet without great psis; the experiment of • Moose of Corrertioo has here cutler', failed. They are. however, satisfied. that the failure is to be &Unloosed to the badness of the system adopted; to the MINI of the proper senatratioa sod elassillestows of pennons ; to the &motore from the principle nod enactments of the Arts of the lath and 31st set Geo. 111 ; sod to the slowest entire absence a oupploy. &M. so resential to carry Imo erect the isersitoros a the agglollatisre, is mooing the slinve.nonsed Illatotes; and thi where, that oil of the Sid misusers who were I. the Cold DallifirM., ore the TOth of April, et had been committed there before. The Goverepor heforoted yoar Committee that the prison, at present, Nis sot exactly a House of Correction ; and he is afraid that moot of the prisoners who him been amassed there are as had whew they go owl as tlgty are *heti they rolloe in, sod some a rest deal worm; bud Hitt this is is comormienee of the great somber who asnotiate together:" The Chaplain nays, he is decidedly of °Maio*, %het from the eleariphor of the prison. It commis more than it re. forms; and the Aorgeos, who has bees there 23 years, ta prooms his sorrow that be cannot say he has ever sees moth itapeurtmeat. Oa • review the, of the slats and mamemsent of this Ileums of Correction, your Committee feel it their duly to declare it to he their divided opinion that the whole sys tem taboret tberehe requires to be ehai:ged ; they Impute has blame to the oilmen of the prison, who, from all they have hems able to ma and learn, are reenter, ~restive, anal himd eo the prisoner. Intrusted to their care. Hat • House of Correct tow without sides and regulations, in w hie% the spirit, and, in many inmates, timely the letter of those statutes which Parliament have enacted epos these subjects ire set at nought ; where (either coereptiem sod not reformitton is the result, and through ihicb above 3,000 persons pass am ovally, it, ilk the jedgmeat et your Committee, no establish. mess, the tuotiousisee of whiclh, wader its pemeut system, is eaknlstiel to sogisimit the mischiefs it is Weeded to diminish : and to spread that disposition to commit cringes against the property and peace of society, which, from whit s sty coneys arising, is unhappily for the country so univer sally prevalent. Your Committee hoeing thus examined into the pre. sent condition of two of the principal primes of the metropolis, sad lie Hoare of Curreetime for foe (utility of Middlesex ; taking she into their considers. loon the mrknowkdged deficiencies of the moiety and ity prison uf Newest', cumin refrain from calling the emotion of the House to the deplorable state uf all these plates of coalinemmt. 11 appears that no less than 10,3/1 permits have mooed through these three prisons sterile, she less* 11 mouths, of whom 1,714 were tender twenty years of age; from the iseaniser is which these 10,000 persons were fossilised, they most all Dribs,* have Mew more or lass earropted by As eoapaay in which they were orsonated, tied rendered worse eneinhersof society by the mease "hie* the law proposes to make them bette►. As, however, from the small occonealsodatioa which each prison affords foe the purposes of classification sad the sepoestim of elfairkes, se diciest plan ems be expected to take place in the prisons, your Committee wish to propose the clessi lest ion of the prisons theasselveviod obey caw me so rational objectiou ne sock a plan being ears ied loft formation oo the mat useably of Parliament. Newest, might be appropriated solely be ell charges of felonies before trial. Cliskenwell fur mis , lerseemaats and Gees fur misde meanants, aid fur primitives loader 11 1 / 4 43111111111110011, aid for &salon eases before trial. Felon-Goes to be cossinsitted lu As Cold Path-Gelds prison, as well as those misdemeanors t►at require solitary emprisodentnt. the debtors from all the prisons to be 'ensured to the New prison; and (briber acconewindation to be provided fur the vagrauts within the area of the present House of Cufrectiuu, so that they .toilet here nothing to du with the interior of the prison. prison to be used for re.exasaination prisoners aneinisited fruit the differeat allege, misdemeanors, and soisdeuemo* Goes. lu this way great additional gems modatiiss would be afforded its each prised, and a mode of discipline sleight be adopted suited to the condition of each Class unil description of offenders. The rules of rigour that are proper for convicted prisonem, are surely improper to be applied to the untried ; and the Nue for a misdemeanor 1'.1111104 in justice be subject to the same severity of dis cipline which is applied to the eurirrelioll of the felon. liesidio, it is well basso, that arch additional seemanm slatioss is required in Newgate and in the prim. of Tothill- Gelds. Voir Committee feel, therefore, disposed to snivel the peoprirly or building a new prbun, wkly for the febabes ; so Ihat prison, where, as to the Saint I.sksre, at Paris, all the women *be are rrrrt►icied of offences, as well as the dis• •ieilorly in the metropolis, may be at mire committed; they all be made subject to a discipline, moral and reh gloms ; and, above all, trained to such habits of industry, as road give them at least a chance of setraislialt that ilia t wet 1:1 society •hick they Itti.l kW by their Miiciondwirt. The example of Newest', under the tore of Mrs. Fry, de. munstrates how mach cam be dour, even under every dis conraerment. Your Coniniftlee are limey to be obliged to remark, that though there is uo sabject upon which the beat interests of society more depend, than the prevention of offeiwn and the reformation of offenders, yet, in this Country, nose here received so little attention ; and That while every giviliced nation in Europe is bringing into active operation the prin ciple of That round mid rational policy, designated by the penitentiary system, this c•tsutry alone. has, until the last f•w years. brew content to pass two Acts of Parliament, the 19th awl 3lst Geo. 111 and to remain indifferent if the sa- Isilar) ramelatents of ibex slagging were put into execution. Your Committee beg leave to direct the attentioa or the Howse to these Act, of Parliament, and They trust That narly is the ensuing Session some additional legislative measure may be brought forward, to carry nut only Illy let ter but the spirit of these Acts, into intarediate execution Your Committee, in liorstsanee of the plan which, in Itir gerund Report of the last Session of Partiament, they lay Joon as ■ genie for their future t anduct, proceed 11, the considerstios of the oilier subjects which have been sub. milted lu their investigation. I. THE DIFFERENT POLICE. ESTABLISHMENTS OF THE 31ETRI1P01.16 These Estalilishinents were hrolight nailer the Irk* of Par. Raiment, su the 49th Repot I of Elliellar, which was preuentril to this House, auil ordered to hi. primed in 1799. At that prrind„ porkerlems she office in llow-.trees, there were eight Grogram pollee ull6;es, wills three insures presiding itsii each *nee then. another has been toldrol. 'misled The 'll.4enes Police, which has the same solinhir of Mari•te ales to Mores it. eitablishineed, as those abuse mentioned. It appear. from I ifith Report of she Finance Committee, Thal the annual 6, or the total ex- ,C a. j. pease of ilw seven Police 011ie... to the Metropolis, taken from She lime of these twitting...it in August, 1792, So the rod 441797, briinga period of nearly 51 . 1 ran, antonsitol to And that the expense of the sillier in H o w. Mimi, in Ibr sear 1797, ineholisex remit- SlerjA lOM to bl 'goo, •tra 1.1 IWO of fees moil migni.ites, or fir special aeivo-es, a. well a. Co lb. p tirople, comittosE of 00 vf....08. ani.l.llllCli to fa she year 1411, shersorows of now-.trey( ansonitted alone to she net cost of Ails .. to 1414, And 1017, And Shoe of the seven other others, tint e 11‘..ines Puller sloe 'ear 1414, -- 1415, to . 23,18111 910 -- And in 1.17, I:, the 9th stctglio of tM 511 h Get, 111 t. S 7, it ic cnxt• eat that the it haleelmeeeeaf she revels Dem @bell rat is carol she eassail me ot 84,816/.steer and above the sseeeeearp ei•bssi enemas foe Mehl rad repettswg the helms and build eats vrberrim she said were palate Mies* shell be field. The east ..teach of the estelolisheeeette ene„areordisse lo the venire is 1814, nib. 1818, awl 11117, ID Gillao. :-- I 1 - 1814 1815 1818 I 1817 f 4050 f 1,4111 f'1,8841 I 11.0145 8,8411 3.529 3;10 3,206 3.1101 3,186 4,151$ 3.166 3,035 3,194 3,51,6 I 3,752 Hation.gorden Wne.hipAstreet Wkiirrhaprl . - 3.763 3.161 3.146 3406 3.r.314 3.8 U 3,380 3113 3.331 3,539 Mbarlwell Quiea square Vision Hall 3:017 9,80; f I 24.374 123,9.74 There svin.t he added. beanies, to this, Police l'Aselsh.lonents of sloe metropolis: 1•1. The hurke pair..le, %this+ onsoossteel 1614 so fs.34 6 0 I 1616 50..., 161$ so 6,609 16 0 I 1617 to ... l i tte - 43 0, ,7 rease St I 2-of4—".-,1: 't,556 6 6 ... 7,7401 S I 1.1. The Theme* Puke•, which in 1814 wee ! 6.167 16 3 IRIS wee ....f7,7 66 'I 5 11115 0,775 U 6 I 1,417 . Together, making the wbule cost of the various Police omens to amount in 1814 to t4b,941 9 4 1818 to .....550,1147 9 to Isis 49,7 14 8 6 I 1817 61,796 d 2 From ibis MICH be subtracted the receipt of money arising from fere which froth the di ff erent Police Oakes, Not IN /toiling Bow.sireet,amotintinl is 1814 to .. kill 11 11 I 1818 to £4,9 118 a 2 1816 5,66919 11 I 1617 Leaving in 1814 .. f 43,6611 17 5I 1816 £45,670 13 8 1815 44,154 6 II 181 t 47,364 0 8 to be provided for out of the public nreassiry The establishment of Buw.street 'COnsists of three Ma. gistrstes, the thief of whom is Sir N. Conant, with a salary of 1,2001. per animism; the two others having 6001. each. One thief clerk at 2141. with 60/. aa E;litur of The Hits wed Cry Ottreffe; and 10s. per week ft the parole establishment; total, 3001. per million. Second clerk, 14/. per annum, and 10s. &meek from lime came , 200/ Third clerk, 1341. per an num, and 8s from the same, 1401. Eight officers, at one guinea per week ; and three or them have an additional 2001. per annum each, for attendance on are Royal Family. Thirteen conductors of the patrule at Ss., and 87 men at Is. 6d. per riiht tech. Other-keeper, messenger, and house-keyper, 361. each. Two dour keepers at ISs. per Week; two gaolers, one at 14s. the other at 7s. ditto; one assistant memetmer, at Is. ditto ; constables at lime avenues of Whitebait, 351. per annum; summit, 140/. 'ln the year ending the sth Jannary, 1815, _ , ... es Ike ch a rges of Ibis isbli-bairut for salaries i. s d. awl pensions, amounted to The extra ebirges, ui looney alluvial hy the Magistrates, fur expenses and livable in eurrml by the differeut others, sad pa tildes iii the execoliun of the public duty 1,1161 llt Incidental charges, tradesmen's bills, Sm. 1,697 11 I Disbursements al Ilse Wilke l6 6 I Total The some is theyetit cadmic the sth Jeovary, 1816: Salaries Eatra chews Incidental chlorite Disbursements 6114 5 Total la the year cache' the 6111 J y, 1617 : Salaries Extra charges Inrideatal charges Disbursement, Total In the year ending the sth January. 1819 &tint% . 9,910 13 11 Extra charges lueidentals Dieburseuiessis NM 0 1 Tula! 2111,!0013 The ratahlkhomente of the seven ufket and that of the names sad Meer Puller, vary its trimly particehue ; bet pour Cornesittee refer severally to the Appeedia fur the details albs sure. lr emiltrantiog the expenses of the Row-street Glace is the years 11114, INN 1611, mid Ittl7, with those which were ineurred in 1716, your Committee observe that the salaries of the Magistrates have heels augmented and several sew pacers appointed, the propriety of which they by No means intend to definite ; but as the expeure of this office is pro digious, they recommend t►e oitentioo of Guveranseut to be drawn to the subject. Your Cominittereexannued voriuiss Magistrates of the different police establishments whom they suninteined before them, in rispeet to the atteedeure at the re sportive alias according le she rules sad regulations p►esrribed in the ledth of the King, Chap. 37 ; ssJ though that attendance might sot be at sll times agreeable either to the spirit or letter of the Art, yet try feel it to be their duty to stale that it seems to be substantially good. Sir N, Conant, the Chief Magistrate of the Row-street pace., euenstipuicatee daily with the Secretary or State fur the Home Department, es do the Melistrates of the other Offers, om all 'mestere yf deep public interest; sad they all make • mootlily .mturio sloe iufunmetiows received, sod of persons 'covenanted sad discharged at their respective offices. At the smite time it appears evident to your Committee, from the essolinatiom of this Magistrate, that little or nu commune:Aims takes place helmets the different police offices typo* any regular systems They all act independently of each other, except where special service cells fur ■ general co-uperatitm; and Sir N. Conant acknowledges that ist indi vidual assn Mich a comionniestion does out take place, though it would be highly idvansageous fur the . preveutism of crime and 11w appreheasion of coalmines. Your Commit lice exinsiesed several of the Magistrates spun the propriety of establishing what lams been tee ital a Central Board of Police, which should currespoud with sit parts of the kimgeliess, as well as with the different essisior establishments in the metropolis. Many very plausible rea sons were eoldesce d to elventoistrate the advantage of such * plan, and )uur Committee are aware that some propusittom of a similar nature was reeinitnieutled by the Wale% and Ward Voilowitire in Ibl2 Hot, upon a careful examiustiu■ of milt the arguments in favour of this, plan, your Committee are of opinion that it would sot I.e advisable to adopt such a measu r e, limier Isy far the gorativ number of uffroces cum milleal rise sondemloiedly mtl of a Very serious nature ; and that those which include the more raurmuaa Offvsirrii are at permit, rapidly pishle.twil snit circulated by the diatom, press, the correspondences( Magistrates, and The Hat sad CYy Gak.fte Si, N. Colima inform..) your Committee, that however plaesibk this plan might we" yet if adopted. • clamed woods& IN throes, over ali the trausartiosis of the polite, soil the few impottant Calbsts oberionsl by the misabise of iaddistite ceosimeniest lam. At the saute time your Committee are sof minium, that within 11w metropolis, before the Magistrates separate at four o'clock hum their respective earns, a mom. wiliowat hot might be sect to rash, of the various charges that hail hero mole lodine them, amil their remelts; so that wham the Magni' alas Mem! again at their respective offices, they wools' all have laid before them the police traissaelistas of the issetropolis of that slay. 'lllr milks elltabliistilliirlit ill the City of Loonlou has hen art myth is the Repast of 11 1 11 . 2 above alluded ill. and Mat e. ceivest, what it well (merits, great 01111111,11411114111; fur the 11w Conasnittte refer to the evidetsce of Mr. Hold& woo th, who Mini the ritualism M Upper Marshal tor 1$ or lb and issuer Ow period Whets it rule the abject of so much COMINOIIII3IIOII by a formic Casiaimittee, it has beets ieusleted snore ellieseist by the rierllolsll of the late 1.1511 Aaiun. At the moue time your Committee have received infurmati ~,,, whirls antialles them, that seen in the city, %brie She the inaeliiverr) of the pulite is halite adapted for the preventiou awl obscurely of crimes thus iu 11w other pail• glee suctiups.s.te, great abuses have prevail.d end still Coilitiaise to yoevail, ah.elt ivviiie all She exertions of the Slactsis del to correct. 1 bey hove Icarus, however, with satirfactioa l , that at &meat au practical iamitvciiiesce arises 'from the exclusive ju►i«llrlnlM,Pthe city of ; but that rvery facility is •Abrikd by the ltlatotiata• of Al 11w &shirts thriimilium the metropolis, fur 11w appetthensiou and Miseries of criminals. The Itrport enumerates the eeterol Clerks emu 'doled iwre, and complains of the irregularity or the uneinisnee of the Chief Clerk. It then prc. cord. thus : YONS* enemas'', however, feel she 'twine...l abjection■ to the pearlier at llow-strret„ and in mine of the ether office., where the Clerk. :tort aa NoSuitors so parties swine in their nen office : they cannot imagine a systems liable to greater Pdriah Nifeera.—Yulsr Committee refer generally to the Report which was made on this kohject in the year ISIS!, by a Committee of the House, entitled, " A Rellost on the Nightly Watch and Police of the Metropolis." That Report rulers fully iota the detail of this branch of police, and sets Girth the law, and the practice under the law, of the parishes of the metropolis. Nutwiffidanding various than/es were suggested by that Cossithittee, 'none have been effected. The System, such uit was, still remains. Though your Committee may nut co rin all the projects which are there set forth, yet it to them to be most eardient to make some Mimed' alteration in the general mode or cosidviesing the inf er i depart ineed of the police. There scents to he wanting altogether, in the western di. vision of the metropolis, an unity of proceediug, or that dependance of parts on each other, without which no well constituted and efficient system of police can he expected. The offices of high constable and mumble, are ditties of labour performed without rewards; and persons are selected to All them, who, whatever may he their other qualifications, have no motive beyond mere public duty to discharge faith fully the arduous and troublesome offices with which they are tuvestell. Complaints hove been made to your COM mince of the inadequacy of the •Ilunances which are mask to the iufcrior'constables, for hiss of time and attendance on the differedt Sessions and Courts ; and a want of oaf ficient remuneration is expressly stated to be the foundation of that neglect of duty, which is every wltere appareut iu re spect to the nomination of these officers. Mr. Fielding informed your Comfflittre, that in his dis trict of li'estsioster, most of these officers serve by substi tutes, cud that there is hardly a single constable serving in his own right. "Some few of them may be, but those he hears of every clay are those who go on from year to year as substitutes for others." The office of constable is of greet antiquity; and though it is in many respects admirably sailed to the wants of a Gee people, in the nature of domestic policy, your Coin . et, however, recommended that to the office of high constable of each ilivisiou a salary should he attached; the appointment remainiag, as it is at present, in the nomine lion of the Magistrates. The person selected for that office should on so account he a tradesman, or concerted is any way with trading; Ise should hays a miry adequate to the duties he is called upon to perform, toad be removable for misconduct, by the same authorities that orginally none noted him. The petty constable should be under his con. trol ; and it should be his duty to watch over the general state of the police within his district, and to make to the police office of the quarter in which he acts a daily reform of the events of the last 24 hours. He should take hie it 'truest 111 l s from the Magistrates, and of course it would be ►is ditty to occulter segos i sited with the state of his own district; the mediae, of t►e victuallers, the houses of ill fame, mad of all that affects the good order of that portion of the tom munity, whose officer he is. In order to carry this weapon lute efec►, it would be advisable to make a new divisioa of these districts, so that each high trustable should nut have a wider range than be can conveniently attend to. At pre -44111, the high covetable enjoys so salary, sod don hardly say doily. Your Committee have been informed of a prac tice, which generally exits, of this officer bring a coal merchant, or engaged is some trade, by which be levies euelributions on the victuallers and others. At protest, though there is no salary, whenever a vaeaaey occurs, there is so want of caudidatest it is 'bastardy by being ~- nip., or winking at the misconduct of others, that these officers eau he remunerated for their trouble. Your Com mittee are therefore of °pieties, that, in order to have these sitiratioes effectively and properly filled, a salary should be amused to them, sulkiest to secure the ingspruilence of the °Meer, and to prereut the necessity of his recurrence to those weans which, to the discredit of this elan of perilous, sad to the great injury of the public lateen's, are coastautly practised. Evideneehes also been offered to your Committee, to stew that great unfairness and 'reliably takes place in the op poinieneet of petty constables; a great proportiou of these silken eliminated in the metropolis, serve by deputy; these deputies, is many itiatances, are characters of the worst and lowest description ; the Sue they seceive from the per mot who appoints them, varies from les. to U. ; the curse queuee is, having some expense and no salary, they live by exorcism ; by counteuirsiesinr all species of vice; by an air derstaudiag with the keepers of brutheb sod disorderly ale humors ; by attending in Courts of Justice, and giving their false evidence to insure conviction, when their expenses are paid; aid by all the various menus by which artful and de. signing men can entrap the weak, and prey upon the 4111 F. wary. Your Committee recommend the evidence epee this subject to the serious attention of the Horse. They feel convinced that some efficient remedy is ; sad they trust the consideration of Parliament will be directed to it in the ensuing Session. Your Committee are of opinion, that if a better mode of selecting persons to serve was adopted, the fine for nut sere hog greatly augmeated, and a surer certificate of character required from the deputies, as well as a limitation of the pe riod of such service, some of the evils complained of could be remedied. Parke Qffieers.—lndependent of the pulrole at Bowesfreet, which COlillilli• of 87 men and 14 conductors, the former re ceiving es. 6.1. per eight, and the latter Tn. there are revi ler officers and - coustables, who amount, its Hatton-Garden to tea, bet in all sod each of the Lieber offices, including Row.atreet, to eight ; their salary being our guinea each per week. This parses% is considered in the nature of* retaiii iug fee, awl they ate permitted to receive compeasation for their trouble from the private who employ their services. The exact motet of these profits, derived from various sources, your Committee have nut been able to learn; but as many of these officers, particularly theme of Bow. street, are employed at plates of ',ebbe resort, at the lheaties, &c. die.; an almost oil cases of robbery, by the par ties who have been robbed; the income arising horn these various modes of revenue, must to some of them be eery considerable. They Weide, have their share of purlianseat. ary rewards, the amount of Voletch, of coone, must vary; end to each officer this source of profit must he very tauccitain. Visor Committee heeler us their seemed Report expressed • decided opinio• against this mode of stimulating thee:. ertiost of police officers, refer's§ from recurring &gaits to the subject. They observe that the Magistrates of Row. street bane charged in their 'account, in the year 1814, 1,29°L la. said in 1815, I,llolf. tle. I Id. fur captain earl trouble iwcarred by Illiir/Clll officers and patreles to the execulion of their public deity. The permeate at the other offices ow three heeds are very trifling; but though the Committee are aware that the Bow-street officers Inert almost exclaeively lido the cowotry, yet they enamel wader. Nand why the extra services of this body of mew shush' he paid for, suit those of the usher (elfin.* go unrewarded a the payment of trevellieg expresses may coostitute some purlieu of this expellee, but auy inumey received tae tremble must he in the uutetre of reward, mad tie that payment all the other officers have an e q ual title to share. The salaries of the regular offices, are small, being owe guinea each per werli; hest the pateuk of the city, whose duty is somewhat similar, enjoys a salary of one guinea loud • half, a sum which your Coiniesettee does nut think to he too great. to additives to thee, it appears to them to he just to senue a priairisian to those who may be wounded soil crippled in the service, which arrangement does out at pre sent exist, as well as a pension of retirement after 30 y. service to the 6.14 amount of their salary. Your Committee, in recommending this increase in the salary of Skive °Otters of the police, 11.11ir w view not only the estithlishmeut of an tquttable re ward fur public service, but by the liberality of pat meld to 14 l/Irt , time labour of a times ut persons, who, *woe their 'duration and early habits. may he considered as less amaileble by the temptatioNs to which they are es• perrod, then frost lite manliness of the salary amid the dia. i pwftr.....! credit athiefied in a fns • contd. y to ;kir sabre, shot mug Le supposed 10 be. its order lo I ring shortly before l etiosi• derstioss of the WON' the premise situation of these °eaves, your Committee Mg leave to draw di allieuliun In dee rm. lowing extract from the evidence of a person of she Mime or Vickery, one of the Illometreet offisers, obese lestionouy Naos this subject is mom impotent. Wish resrrei to the subject of rewarding lifficers for i a. traordiumey eervices, to which the Committee has allotted. I think that she power of rewarding the onierra shusilsi be in the hands of the Magistrates rather auto of the insides; for nobody can tell who are most deserviNg of reward fur activity and exertion's.° well as the Magistrates themselves; Doi I am persuaded, that iftbis power was left iu the hands of the !Uagistrates, it would excite an emulation amongst the ollic•rs to obtain the good opinion of the Mazistrates. But as this matter stand. at present the wificera are circle*, of the Magistrites ; for they know, that however active their 'stilton' may he, they will never receive an extra sixpence from the alike. Ido nut speak merely of Burr-street, for there the Magistrates du exercise a !sower of rewarding the officers for extraordinary exertions; but 1 speak of She officers couneeted with the police in the differesst parts of the metropolis. 1 held a situation in true of those offices for feeler years, stud I may venture to say, that with all the exertions 1 could make, and all the industry I could use, 1 never bad the means of saving a single sixpence for my family in ease any accident might happen to myself.— There is another thing 1 would mention to the Cum. mittee; I am not speaking for myself, for perhaps 1 may never want it, but I am %peeking on behalf of men who want it; for it is to be observed that amity of Ilseitlficei• hardly receive more reward for their services that, is just endugh to enable them to live without brews/Aug thieves ; mud therefore I should suggest that a provision &humid be made for suck meet as are vrownded,or receive severe bodily injuries in the performance of their duly; or who are worn out in the invite. It is s weary life, and wears men out very fast. And without praising those men too much, 1 think something should be dome for those men, who have dome their duty to the 11116011 of their power, through a long life, in protecting the lives and property of the public. I hope the Committee do not thilik 1 am saying too much, when 1 suggest that some trilling provision should be mask in the nature of superannuation money, fur those men who bare attained the age of 50, de. or 70 years, to who otherwise may be incapacitated from age or infirmity, to do their duty. I got myself nit all to pieces two years ago, and that was in an attempt to take two men who bad committed a murder; but I did not expect to live; I *as laid up for six mouths, and I was in that situation at the time that I should rut have left my wife and filthily a farthing if I had died." " Did not the ollke make you any allowance for your wounds ?—Never a farthing ; they paid my doctor's bill : bot in fact, they had it not in their power ; I know they would willingly have done it t and Sir Nathaniel Consul said be would have done all in his power for me if be could." " There is no allowance made for old age or tafirmitko —None whatever. There is to the magistrates and clerks, but the officers are toosidered as nothing in the thing." The rumination of the Magistrates to the different offices is in the CAOIIII%, and, accordiag to the Itlth sec. of the 54th Gee. Ht. chap. 3?, other constables and office're are to be appointed by the Magistrates; and any two of them are em. powered to dis Miss from their employment the respective officers a *horn they shall think remiss or negligent in the execution of their duty, or otherwise uofit fur the same, and appoint, subject to the approbation of the Secretary of State, others in their stead." Your Committee have bow. ever, learnt, that since the passing of this Act the Secretary of State for the Home Department has appointed three per. suns to fill the sittiation of officers in Worship-street. Your Committee obperve that Hie Act of Parliament places the nomination of the person in the hands of the Ma gistrates, subject, however, to the approbation of the Seca. tary of State; no doubt from cooskkiing the Magistrates to be the best judges of the qualification of the iliffereut caodi. dates, but imposiug at the same lime the consent of the Se. cretary of State to serve as a check on their choice. lissome Matinees the Secretary of State has nut wailed for the nomi nation of the Magistrates, but made the appointment him self; this breach of an Att of Parliament uo the part of the Secretary of Slate has produced the result which might have been anticipated. One of the persons so appointed by Lord Sidinooth was a worthless abandoned character, • Jew bail, who was imprisoned in the King's Bench, and not being able to perform his duty, was turned out of his situation; he is described by the chief clerk as a mar who hired himself out as of raudelesit bail, and was sever kouwu at the office till he came to he sworn in. _Yon► Committee beg leave to observe, that this interfer ence of the Secretary of State is nut warranted by the law which regulates the police, and will, no doubt, if persevered In, be attended with the worst effect,. Of the four persons nominated by Lurd Sidinualh,onedeclined his appointment another was tensed out of the office; and t h e remaining two Were confirmed in their situations, in defiance of the proper remonstrance of the Magistrates upon the subject. LICENSING SYSTEM. Your Committee hamar had a petition referred to them% •hirh was presented to the House by certain Magistrates of the county of Seeley, complaining of 'aspersions on their characters by evidence take% before your Committee, during the last Session of Parliament, proceeded to hear the par- Ilea themselves; and having ets done, they feel it their duty to declare, that they consider the Magistrates as exempt from all blame. Mr. Whither* may have a right to censure the party of whom he bought the house in quesrion, but the conduct of the Magistrates stands unimpenched ; they acted according to their long-declared inteution, and deprived a public-house of • license, under the opinion that a power which is annually put in execution *as intrusted to them by law. Your Committee refrain from again generally discussing the licensing questtu• ; they refer to the First Report of last year, in which they endeavoured to demonstrate bow the law really stands, as well a• the practice which has arisen out of it: the mines of hardship and most unwarrantable totes-ft. rence on the part of a division of the Middlesex Magis trates, which are detailed in the evidence annexed to this Report, fully satisfy your Committee of the necessity of tegistalive remedy; and they trust this osestion, important as it is to the property of thousands, anti above all to the moral, of the poorer classes of society, will lie brought be fore the consideration of Perlianient early in the ensuing Session. FEMALE lON. Your Committee have had referred to them • Petition from the City of Loudon, relative so the extent and perni cious effects of female pereditutiou in the metropolis; and the inquiries they bave instituted into the subject have satis fied them that it is seceasary to make anise alteration is the existing 111114. The extent of thisevil appears to them to he of the greatest magnitude, Your Committee have bemi informed that a Society has beets establialsed, cultism itself " The Guardian &sciety," the object a to preserve the public morels, and to pro. vide teioporary asylums tOr prostitutes retained by the ope ration of the law Gout the public streets; and to aurd to such as are destitute sus ploy meld and relief. That Society has furnished to pow Consissittse some details upon this subject, that are /nowt afflicting. Out of three parolees, consisting of 9;954 houses and 55,050 Sobabitants, there are 360 brothel., mid 4,000 'commove prostitutes. By the autho rity of the late Lord Mayor, this Society visited Bridewril; and the result of %Mr examination Is as follows:—They visited and examined II I of these switched women, the ages of whom varied from 14 to 64; tie largest proportion ap pearsug to be of the ages from 18 to 22 : AO. Â. No. Age. No. Age. No. Apo. 1 of 44 110 of 21 110 of 26 sor 32 I of 16 l3 or 22 9 of 27 2 or 33 of 17 6 of 23 4 uf 24 5 of 35 II of IS 1 of 24 6 of 90 3 uf 36 19 of 19 3of 25 70f3011 of 54 Out of these, eighty-five had heeu i■ a state of prustii isnot, frees Iwo months to twenty 'eats; and the largest propor tion of these f.utti two I 4 three years. These unfortunate creatures are repeatedly comuilted to prison ; and instancy.a have nerurettl whret they have been imprisoned twin IS to 30 MKS. y e a r committee refreitt hum going farther into detnils AN Ibis subj. ; mod 1641.44 the information shore elated, tiny It Ae w. s bad any (Indeed* stitch could he relied on IY ostolola:vAlio avv.int of that class of %%Juno 'ohm lop. S part themselves hy public meditative,. Ratt H camout bare ~aped the piddle obeerrati ~,, that the sires is are crowd. ed •yr ry night by women of the noist abautt►ued sold pro. Aigaie characters, who geue•wtfy attest the iiassrogris with some 011114 MIC and distr.-tine expel arbrie ; who a••tluve those whose youth expoiee thesis most to eh' IV artifices, and whose net-v.ollly avocations oblige them S. frequent the public streets. Theme women, by their inteifirsesice and riotous conduct, are the principal cause of the distrrhances and broil% that eight', disgrace the te••trapolis. There ►erms to he a suet of Osten* minpteri ammo, them, tied gives to eacb class a certain division io which they prowl fee their prey, secure front any lists implies, by the guardians of the tight police, whose favour and protection they secu be slieriug with them the wages of their prostitoisou. To such an extent dues this unisalier es to drive from the streets (it mot being safe to walk in thrml modrst females, whose avocations lead them abroad at night, and who are exposed to the taunts wed insults of these women sod their followers. Your Cunernitt*e are fully aware of the difficulty of *op pressing this evil; but they are well enured that a greater degree of vigilance on the part of the watchmen, whose ht. Neely can alone be secured by the frequent in•pecliuo of the cunsisible, beadles, and the different parish officers or watch centsaittees, smiler whose ro•trul they are, *mild upstate se • more effectual check to it, Own any alteration or the exit_ lug laws, to which they feel inclined to object. It is the duty of the watchmen to prevent obscene exhibitions, riiits, broils, and disturbances in the streets; and if that duly was dune, ni•e•tenths of the nuisances complained of wool.' Cease. As an example of the benefits likely to came from the cu operation of the most respectable inhabitants in regulating. Ike police of their respective peril& s, your Committee be; leave to refer to Ike improved state of the parish of Christ • Church, Spitatilelds, as contained inAlie Minutes of the Evi dence taken before them. With respect to houses of ill-fame, the difficulty and ex pense of indicting them, and the impediments in the way of discovering the real occupiers, have frequently deterred the parish officers from proceeding against them ; and cycle when they have obtained a verdict against them, the same profligate conduct has been carried on under different names, is the very same houses. Thus the keepers of those dissolute houses evade the punishment they deserve, and matinee, with almost entire impunity, the practice of those actions which the law has vainly sought to discourage and put down. Although your Committee are not sanguine enough to suppose that soy measures can he adopted which can totally preveut the existence of such riceptaeles of vice, yet they are anxious to limit their number as much as possible, Si) that the virtuous part of society may be iu less danger of annoyance and contamination. Under these impressions they beg leave to suggest, that the public would And great hearth from a more summary mode of proceeding against them upon iuforination, on the oath of Iwo or more respect able iuhabitants before two Police Magistrates, or two county Magistrates in Petty Sessions, who should have power to summon the parties, and to bear sod determine the case; and upon conviction of the offenders, should have power to punish them by foe or imprisonment. Your Committee wish particularly to direct the attention of the House to • practice upon this subject, which marks strongly the abuses that may grow out or ■ neatens of re. wards fur the convicti of offenders. By the 25th Geo ch. 36, sec. 5, the parish officers are commanded to prose cute any person keeping a disorderly house, oar the request of two parisihonera, who ewer into • security to fu►niseh the material evidence to convict the parties cuocerned ; the reward for etch cosvicttuu tee pound•, to be paid by the parish to each of the two persons prosecuting. In the last y►ar, • Mr. Bunton, oue of those solicitors who hover rOtllld the different police offices, was employed to indict several persons keeping disorderly houses in Baron's. buildings, in the parish of St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark. As is customary on those occasions, when a gross fraud is about to be practised, the motives which were stated to direct t►e condoct of the prosecutors, wen• set forth to be of the most laudable nature—they required no more " than the fair mid reasimabk rusts and charges at lewdest on the prosecutions of the various indictments." Ten persons were convicted on these indictments; the agent, Mr. Bowdon., confessing himself in the Court, that he had pane round to the parties, persuading thou, to plead guilty ; the sum of Mt' was demauded of the parish for these convictions, on the payment of the come and charges, which were rim up to the sum of 1921.124 4d. Great suspicion appears on the face ..f this proceeding to fall on one of the clerks of the office at Union Hall, who was concerned i■ • similar manlier iii 1813. Your Committee recommend the subject to the examination of the Magistrates, and if the tiro; can be supported by proof, they are satisfied the clerk alluded to is unworthy to act any longer in his mitnitiois. The conduct of some of the inferior ofice►s of Union Hall appears to be most repre hesaible; and your Committee refrain from further com ments, being satisfied the Magistrates of that district sill feel it to be their duty to enter into a athletic investigation of the grievance complained of, by which, under the pretence of putting down disorderly houses, parishes are dcfraudid, and those whir ought to correct abuses derive a proft by their continuance. Your Committee catsuot close this part of the sabjeet allotted to their investigation, without alluding to the various propositions that hare been made to them, and the projects that have been submitted to their review, some of which may well deserve the c , ,iistderation of the Liegiffilature ; of this nature, is the power wloch it is pro- posed to give to the Crown 111 nominate counsel, who, with moderate salaries, should conduct all abloom' prosecutions. Your Committee entertain nu doubt that the early eletectiosi and speedy punishment of elffesiders ale much frustrated by the present system, which forces the iudividssal, iu a great degree, to prosecute at Isis own expense for the iujuries which he may have sustained in prrsou or properly ; justice is •,fien thereby prevent"! taking its due course; prosecute as 510 Iris thiii StillitASYS arc tam. tiered with, and some are induced to submit to the I,.se they have suffered, by motives of ill-judged compossi,,,,; "theta, from feelings of apprehension of further ; It these causes conspire to give a degree of impiluity to otbstiele,, , , which is greatly injurious to the public peace. but tour Committee cannot avoid expressing au opiuiuu , 111,11 by a further extension of liberal payinesit in Courts of Uloil4 of the expenses incurred by Frosecutors awl witnesses--cud above all, by a careful revision of those parts of our crimi nal laws, which public opiuion has prononaced as Wit severe for the mild and merciful feelings of the age jig a barb we live—this species of public accuser (an office of oil 1111 l op ,' pellatiou) may no longer be consider , d sass cessary, and the justice of the country will preserve its CfrUlar COMP', assail sot be impeded in its march by consemitious &clap:es, the poverty or fear of individuals. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS Your Committee wish, on many other eubji yt• which hare been brought under their cuusirlarati ~,,, to r.h r cr •-• IA) to the evidence; th ere will be found much that I. a do able to those w ho seek practically to heittr the r • tom the society in which they live. Bait while they poruting the attention of the Route to the alerenitig sii..t mentatiun of criminals, and to the liter-ear:jog multitude: of all species of crime, they, honesty, imiw, that this anneeutalik proof of peseertt and distress among the Peet is but ltenporary. The esideure of perrolia well quutitiral to. speak on these topics, describe the chat serer of oda-lots to be much more mild than heittuhire, arid the gem ral mati nees and morals oil the people to have been in a termite uf gradual improvenieut. Your Conimitter Ilu.t, 111.11 the prumutiou of education. which is now ailsaireing with as pidiiy, and the means thee., by affuealid of thirig thr rtat truths of morals and retie:ruts On the minds art the pi riply, will briug them hack to those via / awns. ilia, ACP, II hill Amt. , ensure, on a stable a curtly, the gra atilt Itti and hoppibabb ut the nation. _ . Your Commit tee have received from stet rid of the :11.tz.s ttates, *hum they have examined, eartutev opinions upon ii /MVO ant subjeCt of the prevention of re iAs, which e. ed by thew to Ur of primal y 'input fan CC Tbta is a • 114 . jt CI of guest difficulty. It is on flotilla tree, that to prr• eMI atilale is to tter than to punish it • but the ditlienity a a out in the end hat the means; and th:otigh C. us tier eutild imagine • system of police that Anvil arrive at the rhi Cl tottibl foe, yet in a free country, tar seats le owe _~~ i! •••••00 I . cu sin int las din Dail cam, rifts Nllll t4llll Ale' bum Ilse es•ct Ilse