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se osier sidle state of things, in a state of alarm
,sizeicit ought not to be suffered under any system Of
denims, and for which, undoubtedly, the Legislate re
ut Ibis, country was answerable? What a Kett meat
that potash be in which was manifested by the eemods•
Jos sixteen burglaries and three other attempts at
burglary, within the short space of six weeks I In Spitalo
fields. a very important district, the police bad bees
tiratobt to a state of great improvement by the active
exertions of a single individual, who described the Ravish
as•heiag not long ago molly di copal:ed. rigs being
ia the streets committing depredations even in the
open. day, and no precauti n being taken to pee..
vent the commission of offences of all loads. In
that parisit there were II coostables; but the predeces-
sor of this person being old and incapable of mktg.
in his time the watch establishment was not such as it
now seated.. Ale ,(11r. Peel) held in pis hand rearm
of the varies parishes in Middlesex where there were
no c .astables whatever: in Pelham (slthougit
pat; it contained fifteen thousand ishabitants) there went
Ho constables; in Chiswick none; none is the parishes
of Ealing, Acton, Old B entford, Bow, Battersea
Barnes, Pu.ney, or .Wan lswonh. In all these pariahs:.
there were no regular police. and no protection for the
inhabitants., except what was de.gisod from voludatily
organised bodie—a system which was very unfair and
impolitic, inasmuch as by itat fewindividuals interested
in the safety and character of the parish bag the es-
pense, but whose voluntary efforts must. in the end,
tall to the ground, unless that aspens* were shared by.
all who participated is the advantage. Of all the, ---
parishes so the neighbourhood of London nonelgerffiel
greater facilities for the commission ofinsitifrtbast the
parish of Deptford; yet, strange to say, that parish,
which contained 20.000 inhabitants, and afforded such
facilities for crime. bad no watchman whatever. We
know that crimes of a tray stroci us character had
been not loos ago committed in this neighbourhood,
the effect of which bad been to give rise to velvets',
legations on the part of the pimple them to secure these
own safety, but which would doubtless evaporate as
soon as the alarm that bad called them forth had sub-
sided. He (Mr. Pell bad received a letter from one
of the authorities of that parish, giving an account of
its state.' Speaking of the parish of St. Nicholas. Dept.
ford. he states that there never bad been any feed for
watching or lighting this parish, although the greatest
necessity hi it had long existed. There was also on.
nightly patrol, and the only watch was paid sad aro.
ported by some of the inhabitants. Whatever a street
wanted a watch. as opplitatyprwas asade.to the Cdr-
=is irer% who 151roniet O'nf by warrai.t. :Two per-
sons nom tem iucir wasrpnteb but reechoed no pay
whatever leapt what waslrolantarily given them by
the inhabitants, which was generally so small as not to
be at all in proportion to the duty to be performed.
There was no supervisor or inspector of the watch, and
be (the writers begged to add, that nothing meld be
worse than the state of its police, if police it was to be
called. These observations be made with reference to
• the wish of St. Nicholas, but they would. he award.
apply equally to the parish of St. Paul, Deptford. To
support the watch some persons is the street sub-ctibeds
but the great majority did not. Now be (Mr. Peel)
knew that such was the state of almost every orb r
parish where there was no regular witch establishioet.t,
some persons would pay for the protection of their pro-
peety. and others would r. fare to contribute any share
which by law they were not compelled to contribute. It
was to devist=medy for such evils, by the establish-
meet of a so and better system, that he now ad--
drened the House, and suggested the propriety of
adopting the recommendation of the Committee of last
year, and of having a combined and effective nightly
witch in the metropolis. The Committee of last year
also recommended that there should be an emotive
direction of the police, under whose immediate jut intic-
tion should be placed »hat be would call the night pa-
trol. He would use this term instead of the term watch,
because this word bad obtained very little respect.—
He should therefore bang io a Bill for the appoint-
ment of three magistrates, with very enemies controul.
He proposed to place under their charge the whole of
the police establishments of all districts aid of all pa-
rishes, permittin; no parish to maintain its separate
jurisdiction. - This Was most necessary. for such was
the absurd system new aiding, that in many instances
a watchman, while walking on one side of a street, had
no
power to interfere if any disturbance took place at
the other. Was it not, then. at once evident that a
better system might be easily establi-bed ? One good
effect that would result from uniting the police ender
one bead would be to 'prevent their being connect d
with publicans and other persons of this class. a con-
nection with whom would be often likely to affect them
in the discharge of their duty. He (Mr. Peel) did not.
however. male to commence his plan upon a grand
sca:e at once. On making the change he contemplated
he thought it would be wiser to do it gradhally, sad
not suddenly to attempt too much reformation. He
should feel his ways proceed step by step, and not ins•
medistely abolish all parochial establishments, but let
the Board that would have the charge of the watch de-
cide upon taking such districts as they thought they
could most benefit. He should therefore propose no
particular district. but leave it to be hereafter decided
in which district the experiment should first be tried.—
He abizuld propose that the expense Of this establish.
mast should be paid by a local tandem, relieving, of
cause. the parish from the watch rate now paid. He
had a confident hope that a less sum than the aggre-
gate sum now paid throughout the metropolis would
sawn every purpose tf the DIM System. He felt that
the noose would not now desire to enter into details
relating to the measure ; bat his proposition was to pro-
pose the re-appointment of the Police Committee that
sat last year. to take the whole matter under their con,
sideratiou. He should bring in the Bill today ; that
Bill bad been prepated with great care and ability, and
Was, he felt assured, as perfect as such a OlaasnfeeoOld
be. If potice were selected with reference to their age,
so as to insure bodily exertion and physical power..
and. above all, if the bore of promotion was held
oat to them—(Hear, bOr, bear)--and if they were
*objected to regular inspertioa, tl ey were net sorely to
compare the efforts of such mode* the elects produced
lby watchmen as at present a ppoisited. In other cowries,
where doe attention was not pMd to the oeganizstiou
of the polite, possess who became a Wl:deem the par
rates wire appointed waschaeo. He was aware that
ashy pat idles made eiety exertion that could be made
within the limits in which they wets compelled to act, .
and so far as it was possible where the attleavoun of