The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-18 00:00:00

vibe. deluged with. depredators, against wlinm they
i°ald have no proteation. He confessed that he
.:14.1ong'been.extremely, 'scandalized (if. he might
...14.ake use of that termyby the_nutnher of accounts '
7.ch had reached him of the,farniliatity that e)t-
15ted between the officers of the police and the die-'
dithers of the •public-peace. This familiar' inter-
it o.t'i'se was a matter of general notoriety, and surely
astthust, in a variety of ways. have a thost deterior-
'hgeffed on the public morals. It must operate-,
o the thieves themselves, who could nor consider
themselves so sufhaiently as theymight, the objects
oc
Public.detestation, when they knew they could
itt and enjoy
themselves in' their favourite public-
i°tls'rs until some one shouhh tie called out whose.
Measure of guilt was full. It must also operate on
l
,`eetficers of the police, who could. not possibly, en- .
'ertalt the proper feeliOg with which criminals
111ght to be regarded by them, while they continued
'to Sit down at tire same table with them, and
Ito drink ts it h them- as associate(' until the very
it'°lnent whin they pounced upon their prey.-e-
-t , he gave to this statement 'too high a colouring
%which he really believed that he did not), .if
the fact were even incomparably less strong, it
would never' hele,s.deserve 'arnmadversion, and de-;
!nand correCtiun." He was, however, far from wish-
lug that the subjeet :of the nightly watch. should be
omitted from the consideration of the Committee.—
Ile thought it ex!reenelv deserving•of notice, and he
IV`4B persuaded, that if the nightly watch wete put
1311 d better footing, much good would result. His
c/bjeaion, therefore, to the motion was, not that it
l‘as wrong, 40.altai.it stopped incomparably short
ofsf' the object which it was desirable to attain. It
well known, that in one.parish of the metropco
Its, inhabited principally by the lower classes, .great
good had been etfeCted. By parochial exertions
',ending to improve the nightly watch, the parish of
`'h'iits Church, Spitalfields, instead of the scene of.
r'ol, uproar, and crime, w Web it fornaerly.present-
ed, had. become ,almost proverbial for its extreme
°°d order and regelarity, If stmitar regulations
Were adopted at the West End of the Town, a great
'lea( would certainly be done towards improving the.
1110rality of the lower classes. Much praise was in
it's opinion due to the. worthy and
,respeCtable,iudi-
nduats who had taken this matter in hand, and he
"outaia be very harpy to hear that a similar public
Beirit pervaded the ,vlrole metropolis. He concluded
I,Y repeating his entire approbation of every thing
ilat had been said by his Hon. and Learned Friend,
a id Iris hope that an amendment would be introduc-
e the motion, extending the power of the Com-
mittee to an itigniry into, the state of the Police,, as
t 0 the
•
the Nightly Watch.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not
doubt, that under all the circuins!ances of the. case,
ii 'e House would have no hes.tation to agree to the
),„
ever) of his Right Hop. Friend; for having pant.
'vet), attention to the argutinents of the two Ho-
nourable Members who had :spoken on the oppo-,
side, he found that those arguments were di-
rected;not against the proposition). but. against its
tnited nature. It must, however, be considered,
that the motion of his Hon. Friend related to a sub-
3ect which could not be passed over in a mot ning
0, and which therefore would not bearto be loath..
t
Iti' with all the theoretical considerations Which his
and Learned Friend on the opposite side had
geSted. 'lndeed, the subject to which the Corn-.
,
I Zittee would have to direc' their especial attention,
[heir
one calculated to engage it Very s'kriously.—,
• heir objet would be to prOv:de a practical remedy
t)," a practical evil. His Hon. and Learned Friend
h,
;4'ght certainly differ horn his Hon. Friend with
est'eet to the value of the remedy, but he was sure
thatt the Hon. Gentleman could not do so, after
aving enlarged so much on the advaptages in a par-
c cultr district, resulting from the adoption of mei--
irt:es...similar to those recommended by his Hon.
pl,etid. For what was the proposition of his lit Hon.
I„rlend, but that a Committee of the HouSe of Corn-
41;1's should conslder the propriety of enfoiCing in
the parishes in the metropolis, regulations, from
ut
hich Si much good resulted in the parish described
b
El„'he Hon. Gent.? Certainly there was one quail-
cation of the Hon. Gent's opinion on this subject
,
cull
was extremely disheartening. The existing
vii was great, and was felt locally ; " but," said
the
Honoutable Gentleman," take care how you
irPPIY a remedy, for if you cure the evil in the me-.
iSi°P°ll4, you will drive it out in the neighbourhood."
sN for his part he thought it advisable to cure the
evil, if possible, where it did exist. It was, to be
tiin)ented, it should go elsewhere, but if so,
Illiher it should be followed, and there crushed too.
,'.l-lotiourable Gentleman, in the same breath in
I.„"Lch he described the happy influence which tile
Oniations Spital-fields had there occasioned, de-
lit.ecated the adoption of the regulations proposed by
Right HOnourable Friend, . lest, 'although ad-
tc;ritageous to themselves, they .might prove in-•
fa-oinvellieni to the neighbouring parishes. The
volt' was, that the- question before the House in-
ia,,-,ved the interests, not of the metropolis alone,
es' of all the adjacent parts. Such an extensive sub-
tlet Was calculated to produce much discussion, and
21;,re jure was prob able that the inquiry would
be terminated so soon as was anticipated by his
n"ttrable 41nd. Learned Friend. His Honour.
able
of I'`tni~hments, and Learned Friend had touched on the nature.
and. had ascribed a great part of
th(-10410ral depravity of the times to the particular
let; de of confinement to which prisoners were sub-
-1,/,h.e4 ; but he apprehended this was an inquly
wish should
fliS Honourable and Learned Friend did not
pro-1 should be referred to the Commit* now
grar s"d• It certainly 'was not desirable to en-
t the business of a Committee of Penitentiau
pc;i'nusei, upon the business of a Committee ap-
treeted for another purpose. There had already
bee 1 a Committee on that subject; a report, had
to Lrt made by it, and notice given of a measure.
'
it 41. Proposed arising out of that rerirt. Whether
'Ott or might not be expedient to revive the
tioctill:hittee to which he had alluded, was a ques-
svou,°Y itself; but he was persuaded that the House
.2d not accelerate the acquisition of the benefits
pli"lech- needed at the present moment, by com-
eoe'ting the objects to which the attention of the
t„, illthittee moved for by his Right Hon. Friend
had
as to be directed. His Hon. and Learned-Friend.
leth.`! asked, whether it was right to continue
of granting high rewards for the appree
'nsion of culprits of a wain class? This was a
orate
subect for deliberate discussion. It ought not
serviceable. lightly
concluded that these rewards were dis 7
,vrinceable. it might be that they were so; but