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STATE OP TIN POLlCeletimlwattrttraintuf.
.•'• • The Hon. Hatcliv Gas* stance in the Chair..
Examinationof WILLIAM FIFLDING, Ent
In the different parishes' of the metropolis, the:Office
of constable is one of'fatigue, and for; which no pay,
ment is•made. Do you not think, that if ,:payment
somewhat of the 'same nature which` tAlfes place is
respect of the constables which are empleYedAY• the.
Police,•was made to the parish constables, that you
Would thereby collect a bra2ll army, if I may use
such a phrase, that might be called out in case of any
sudden tumult in each parish ?—Most unquestion-
ably ; aetwithout looking upon the essential stimului.:i
Of payment) it would be in vain to expect activity,
ingilance, or vigour, in the discharge of such duties.
The petty constables are not under the. Police Ma-.
gistrates l—No i no more than. that they have the'
controul and authority over them; they are obliged
to execute the Magistrates warrants.
Do you know how many constables are appointed
for the City and Liberties of Westinioster, that are.
sworn in by, the High Steward. believe 18; that
is 13.f0r St. Margaret's, and five for St. John's. •
Do you not consider that number as tatichinferior
to the wants of the public ?--4Ddeed I. do I. .
Have ion any doubt, that a better arranged ens.
blistment.of constables -ready for public. service
pub Pg elPiliewiiit• would be ,apse o(,tbe, means .of
Awl!), the necessity of Callinglo, upon all DCCWri
;Joni. the aasistar.4 of a military:, forte ? might-
have Masi optlation most assuredly. The Aelleacit
of calling in mtlifathy force onght.at all times to be,
considered by the Mag'ituatet; WO, I, at a litiptai
trate, should think there war necessity Of calling-
4orit. and that there was‘an appearance eidertgeet6l
the &laic, I allosid thinkatEeceuxtry to4ccat. • •
. Have you any.doubt that:the systemrsuch as has
bean followed ler many years past„ of so small a
civil power, so little suitedas itis • to the increasing
population and wants-of the. Metropolis, . has bad. a
'tendency. to put the civil power out-of this Use;. tea
mike it little considered as art- elficaoions mean;*
remedying
.public danger, .and in. a .maaner to.cont.,
pal the blagistrate, on the-, first• symptom of public.
danger, to look. alone. to the military .for protection ?
realtyconceive, according to my own experience
all through 144 ,thy upon-the real existence 'et
.any tumult, aid there was a probability. of any
neightiourhOod- contributing to that tumuk, that all.
the Police which we, nowhave,, or could have, with
'the addition of every different officer, would be inade-.
cfate to the thing.. And think that the whole
police power, supposing it were double, would be an
:inadequate body upon which to Ode; a full reliance.
'I also think, that for tke.purpOse.of public peace, an
Wry appearance of the. military would be dreaded,
and under that dread much benefit might be ex-
pected ;..always supposing that the police will first of
All be tried to ascertain the point of safety ; but if
danger seemed to.threaten beyond that point, I should
think as. a Magistrate I should but perform my duty.
by .thinking of and immediately calling. out the mili-
tary energy.
Do you nOt see, that if cases should • constantly
arise, and in your recollection Many must have arisen,
in which an active body 01' police, to be, drawn from
that Class' of the community forming the 'house-
holders, more particularly interested than any other
classin the Suppression of disnrder, or whattier. Islay
tend to the Osturbarice• of the public peacet-thai'an
"ssemblage of those persons; foe the porposel of early
putttog thorns a tuinultuous.itinedtirseof •even sr feet
individuals, which is the nrigin of every disttitbatiee
that arises, would be a much better mode of pirating
doin such distliVbences; than instantaneously, as has
been•the custom ibr ;many years past, of calling in
the assistance of the military ?—No doubt can be en-
iertained spoon akeliwastiott yea ask.. if a powerful
aauld lie collected' mom •deirly; -rthe effects Yoe
speak of .woaldettend,it.,4 1 recollect wharpassed in
tbe riotspf she•year 1180 i, Is happened tem* tcosee-
,a..great: dead, or • these tiots4. awd.4. ;remember,. that
Aen.the honseofiny.ontlee4ir,debn fielding, iWaS
'dCibtoyed by theinals, if there had been only-ttn con.
Wales:the& at the time, the riot commenced, irwould.
have been "MU- cenaidly -save& "And F' remember
that. wised my. Lord .lidaSofirkills, • house, in
tacalaborrAtare, was entered, -that if : theft bad
nit Isealtif-eonstablesdtatiesed Ilsetratthe origin.
that would have.:ltine z'w,very..oorlaidtvelde pciwer -of
rprevensiogitlat-eectimulitinovoithatspeeiet of mob'
Which was soon collected ; it haiingilsegun tby
.asdemblage of the yeungalsd•thovsfrdess only. First
it began NWk, teneealbatmen seetwaddetianothec ten,.
that .prodnitedwkando as: to. the inamanse.numbee
that were thew collected. - .
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PRICE SF,VSP:PENCE.
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named ; that superintendent constable should beiinder
the polici,ly which means a daily attendance of the
Constables Would take place, preventing, thereby, the
nuisances which. at present •itifest the streets; and in
ease of peddle disturbance, the whole body might be
called onte•interposinge in the first instance, their
strength to check.. any. tiototts..dstut hancei tee—
teinly think that thin very iiffisw that I molt tie
liberty of auppoeing would be the means t:f keeping,
at all times, in the utmost readiness, the whole force
that could be called forthof the police.; that it *mild
be theinearia (and it is perfectly new in the idea) of
hating his eye aver all the; additioaal 'constables that
Wight be appointed; Derr. all the special constables
that we Might appoint, to whom we pay ES. ; and
that he, should b•:i the man under whose authority we
shiiktd place eyespot:own:immediate men appnintt.d
at. the Office ; mid I think that that would be a
species ef•officer who. would produc,e the same sort of
efficiency. that it produced in the arrity by the serjeant
,and,the vorporal, for they are toe people upon whom
'the military Oeficers rely for the strict exectifiou of
their regulations ;..so with respect to the pclice ;• for
this•classalf
.officer ,would carry our rollers. intnete.
cutirm ; be would be a
.kind of iuperior man, always
kept to, activity to -know the strength of- his parish)
how to•muster them, and to call them forth.
• Hoar mans. years have. you been in the Police
,My lather, Henry Fielding, was an old Magistrate...
•Csowiutows hare seen a good teal of the Pclie of
`the Metropolis ;lam a• very Old Magistrate of West-.
inster ; I have been agar .50 years standing in the-
mrtiission; betl was not appointed to the place
which I now hold in the Police until about eight
years ago. I• havoleta eight years. this June, ap.•
pointed.
From your observation, since you have been actini•
as a Magistrate, do you think that the morals of thW.
Metropolis are.in a state of improvement ; that they
are stationary, or on the decline must, isdaad;i
be upon the aseresveonjetture that my answer wilt.
be built ; . but I really, think, that from she increasing, t
wickedness of the tines, from the -increasing goes
drinking. from tie dirt, sad from the overpowering
multitude,of children that are in every part of the
town, without our-being_ able to clear the streets• of
the thousandth part of them, that there mast be a
vast increase of immorality mast assuredly.
Do.you then consider that the increase of crime.
which,. according the 'different returns that have
been laid before Parliament. set ms at pretest to be '
an established fact, proceeds from a positive diminu-
tion of.psblie.morals, or from an tr.crease,ot popula.
tion ?—Most assuredly. frato the increase of the pro.
fanenesipt the times, and f:ornthe increase of a very
profligate population...which hat met. with no hope. •
sothiag so. correct it. it is golag.on now ns
it was before. aotwithstandiug oll•riar vigilance and
Fortingiir,,:aeat,Lo mums away youth-Aran idling
abeurshe toms, hkeirierpeseatal •
of being a-dishonest lad; bot• having done shat, and
having all our, viewikand edertions- tail upon the sub-
ject, and knowing that this patish of St. Margaret, at
thin mement, contains•so.ab a. herd, of these UMW Va..
gabnods, and there being nothing in existence by
trobich vietan get rid vt them, •I. therefore conclude;
tkiabilitincreese of immorality proceeds from the in.
crease of.pepulatioes . .
De ,you think that that dais of society, meaning_
thelower,-the idlisrs.of• which may. be couSideted As •
theobotligate class—as they.are in elf other classes--
thatithat class is mote indigent than formerly 4 I'
think that the town has now. a body of 'people that
must bemire indigeerthan they were before such in.'
ineiwese.of populatios4. the poor children now being
in such vast numbers, their parents have not the
means,•nor have-the,Magistratei themeans, of pro:
vidingthern with was kin the-common way. WitW
respect to apprenticing them, even it it•was the wisie •
of their. pareatatopatthena out as apprentices, there- •.
is not *Dough ofthat.• • '
:Do you think that. within your district, or your
meant of knowledge, there has been a greater supply
oleos:kitten -within -these few.years.- than there has'
been work for them to do ; or that latterly work hade
been taken from them in consequence of the badneti
of the times, which was given to them before ?-4
cannot think that work hat been taken from the .
people immediately within our view ; we have .bed a
good many workmen upon the Thames, paaticularly•
about Vauxhall bridge. These public works
.have •
certainly employed. many ; nor has work ever been
taken from them. Occasionally t ppages have taken
place, hut only at particular periods: • We see, hote..
even :in • our sieve, brought',together here,' I mat
iiirrnber of poor wretches, • applying to us for passert
rat iimiserable to see diem. We see amongst,them
vast number of people. who, having parishes, are-still •
Capable of wor.k,and who rather *ant SPitif than ht.;.
'clination to go to work ; the majority Of thente.ll6:
stele, would gladly work if they could. be employed ;
;did certaioly,„atp,mseat,ithere is a general complaint
of the wassr-ot work. In one rertietdae, view;wit
hundreds that would probably betike *themselves th
;wok, it there was xotic for thein, .
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satisfaction in annonncing the great gnecess °tit has
attended the PUrchasers at his lafices. On Friday,
'October 4. the Lottery 'finished
__drawing, when the
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