The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-17 00:00:00

111N715 FOR d NEW POLICE,

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TO MR. SECRETARY RYDER.
The system of Police ought to he organised upon!
the principles of a silk or cotton mill ; from the head,
like the great water wheel which moves the whole
machinery, there should be a regular gradation of
subordinates, all acting as checks upon each other,
so that none of them could be deficient in duty, from
the highest to the lowest, without instant detection.
No rewards upon any account whatever ought to be
given, or suffered to be taken, by any Police Officer.
There should be three gradations from the Bench,
equal to Serjeant, Corporal, and Private; but as mi-
,
Mary terms are obnoxious to many people, they may
be called Marshals, Surrogates, and Battoons, or
Baton-men; a sufficient salary, according to their
respective ranks, should be fixed, and the hope of ad.
vancement, or fear of dismissal and punishment,
!should be the only incentive to do their duty.
In all affairs of the least consequence there should
be one Surrogate of the party., and in matters of
importance a Marshal also. The Magistrates (as a
check) should occasionally examine the subordinates
privately.
All slang and impudent familiarity with the Bench
must be instantly extinguished ; the same respect and
distance must be observed as in the army with pri-
vates, corporals, and serjeants; the disgraceful in-
terference of thief-takers with the duty of the Ma-
gistrate has long been a scandalous reproach to Po-
lice Offices; in fact, it is them, and not the Magis-
trate, nine times out of ten, who decide! Can any
thing be more contemptible, or can any man acorn-
I mon sense expect those inferiors to do their duty
faithfully, who assume the controul of the Bench !
The whole Police must be enjoined, upon all occa-
sions, to do their duty resolutely, but with the least
possible violence ; and if any of them should be
guilty of wanton outrage, be si.ou'd be suspended,
degraded, or dismissed, and punished according to
the nature and degree of the offence.
Parties should be continually patrolling in every
direction ; but each party confined to a particular
district, that they might be readily found and in-
stantly assembled upon any emergency.
No Marshal, Surrogate, or Battoon, to be per-
mitted to choose their jobs, or to hobble to a route,
and make old Dowagers stare by repeating slang lan-
guage, or to beg at Christmas; but every man must
be upon the alert, and ready to do his duty promptly
cuu gratuitous(y against all offenders.
All known thieves and receivers ought immediately
to be taken up ; such of them as can be Lawfully ha-
' sighed, to be immediately transported, either to the
condemned regiments or to Botany Bay; the others to
be kept at hard labour in solitary confinement, for
such time as the Statute enacts, under a solemn as-
surance that if they are again found, in a week after
their enlargement, without the means of an honest
livelihood, that they will be remanded to their old
quarters.
Those diabolical haunts, known to be the resort
of thieves, should be instantly shut up ; the house-
keepers threatened and attentively watched.
No Police Magistrates should have any other avo-
cation; but devote the whole of his time to the du-
ties of his office.
Finally, there mat be a Marshal-General, or
grand head of the Police, but not a Minister of
State ; he should have controul aver Police Magis-
trates only; to suspend, dismiss, or prosecute, upon
evidence of misconduct; but he should not haz.v the
smallest power, directly or indirectly, to appoint or
even recommend either Magistrate, Marshal, Sur-
rogate, or Balloon.
With these regulations, and such others as may
occur in detail, we would very soon find climes di-
minish, and thieves almost annihilated.
Gray's Inn, Jan.ls.

betters were received yesterday from Virginia,
which state trade to be exceedingly dull there, and
the warehouses fall of goods, there being no vent for
them.
It is said that two ships of the line of the Scheldt
fleet are manned and officered exclusively with Danes,
who receive the pay of their own Government, which
is very small, and the French pay also. BONAPARTIC,
in his last visit to Antwerp, visited these ships, and
wishin,, to shew a particular mark of his favour to
the ammodere, wrote to the Court of Denmark,
to promote him to the rank of Admiral ; the request
was,' however, refuse.!, as contrary to the etiquette
ef the Dani,l navy ; but BONAPARTE found a remedy
by making the person at once a Rear-Admiral of
France ! The Danish crews are kept as much as
possible distinct from the French,"having a landing-
place and watering-place appropriated to themselves.
these measures are probably intended as precautions
' to prevent quarrelling: but it seems also that BONA-
PARTE studies to win the Dlues to his interest by a
show of confidence as well as of favour.
Letters from Newfoundland state, that the Mi.
sierra frigate had been struck by lightning, which
shattered the fore-topmast, top-gallant, and royal
mast, struck a man overboard from the main-topsail
yard, upset the Officer of the watch and two seamen,
and killed a sheep on deck.
The Topaz, lately arrived from the Mediterra-
nean, was dispatched by Admiral Sir Enwsan Pu.-
Lrw, Bart. to Athens, there to take on board the va-
luable statues found near those, which she has brought
home.
This day Mr. RYDER will move for a Committee
in the Commons, to take into consideration the pre-
sent Defective State of the Police of the Metropolis,
and to report their opinion thereon to the Bostic.
true bill was yesterday found against Beg/Min
Walsh, at the Old Bailey, for felony,
It is highly creditable to the courage of the female
sex, that the greatest opposition recently made to
house-breakers has proceeded from women.
A tradesman in Ftertsittred, disposed tp profit by
the existing
.terror about murderers, has advertised
throat preservers, which, be assures the Ladies, will
be found no less oruamental than useful. These, it
may be supposed, are in Imitation of the collars of
tha Shepherds; dogs to SpOrs, which are copper, and
iron spiked, to prevent doe weirs" frmi fatteningon Hilary Term commences next Week, but the in-
the neek of those faithful animal., teresting Term of Hilarity, begins at Nine o'clock
If any addititional proof had been wanting of tie on Tuesday Morning next, when the Grand Wheel
ineffective state of tho the discovery a of Fortune will open and dispense 120,0001. in va-
French knife, and other bloody appen4egee, round ried Capitals, and Prizes to Adventurers in the
in Willie:nal' lodgings, upon a search, only within i present State Lottery; but as the Drawing begins so
Ike lq4 OM fikVss !IlUst pleeitied "very decisive early in the Morning, no Tickets or quires can be
one, I brought after neat Monday.

PUBLICOLA.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 16.

Arrived the Mars, of 71 gain, Captain Roper, from the
Fliuhing fleet; andthe Fisgard frigate, Captain Mason, from
the Baltic, last from the ?lore.
Sailed the Goshawk. Captain Lilburn, on a cruise.
Arrived the Hope, Captain Garrett ; and Cadmus, 18, Capt.
Wynter, from a cruise.
Came into harbour the Topaz frigate, Captain Harvey,
leaky; and the Swan cutter is goye out.
The Mediterranean convoy saih on Sunday.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 15.

Sailed yesterday the Loire frigate to the Westward.
Arrived the Ann, of Dartmouth, Weeks, from Waterford ;
and Russell, Garland, also from the same place, both with pro-
visions; and the Aan, Jackson, from Prince Edward's Island,
aith timber.
The Helicon sloop of war is appointed to take the trade to
Portsmouth.
Arrived the Growler gun-brig from Basque Roads.
SHEERNESS. Jan. 16.
Arrived at the Nore, for the purpose of being paid, his Ma-
jesty's ship San Domingo, bearing the Sag or Sir Richard S tra-
than ; abo the Cossack, to refit.
DEA,L, JAW. 16.
Came down from the River the Adventure cutter, for St. Mi-
chael's; William and Mary, for Malta; and the Flora, Wal-
ker, for Lisbon.
Arrived his Majesty's ship Diligence, from the Baltic; and
the Censor, from Norte Yarmouth.
YARMOUTH, JAW. 16.
Sailed yesterday his Majesty's ship Briseis, for the Nore; and
to-day *e Princess of Wales cotter, for the oast of
JutJuland,
to endeavour to get some intelligence of the Sct. George d De-
, fence: