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London, England, 1818-08-24 00:00:00

eat that the ithaleelmeeeeaf 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 ...

litte-430,,7reaseSt 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 ....f7,766 '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 49,714 8 6I 1817 61,796 d 2
From ibis MICH be subtracted the receipt of money arising
from fere which froth the different Police Oakes, Not IN-
/toiling Bow.sireet,amotintinl is
1814 to .. kill 11 11 I 1818 to £4,9118 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 charges 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 measure, 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 11111.2 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
satirfactioal, 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 inferi 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 equal 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.