Produced by Robert Connal, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) [Transcriber's Note: This book was published in 1800 and contains some inconsistent spelling, capitalization, hyphenation, and punctuation typical of that era. These have been retained as they appear in the original, including the inconsistent use of a period after the pound symbol (e.g., £.100 and £100). Inconsistent italicizing of _l._, _s._, and _d._ has been normalized to italics. Long-s has been normalized to s. The pointing hand symbol has been rendered as [-->]. Printer errors have been resolved with reference to a later and apparently corrected printing of the same edition, available at the Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org/details/atreatiseonpoli03colqgoog. Unresolved printer errors have been noted with a [Transcriber's Note].] A TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS; CONTAINING A DETAIL OF THE VARIOUS CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS _By which Public and Private Property and Security are, at present, injured and endangered:_ AND SUGGESTING REMEDIES FOR THEIR PREVENTION. THE SIXTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED. BY P. COLQUHOUN, LL.D. _Acting as a Magistrate for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex.--For the City and Liberty of Westminster, and for the Liberty of the Tower of London._ Meminerint legum conditores, illas ad proximum hunc finem accommodare; Scelera videlicet arcenda, refrænandaque vitia ac morum pravitatem. Judices pariter leges illas cum vigore, æquitate, integritate, publicæque utilitatis amore curent exequi; ut justitia etvirtus omnes societatis ordines pervadant. Industriaque simul et Temperantia inertiæ locum assumant et prodigalitatis. _LONDON:_ PRINTED BY H. BALDWIN AND SON, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS; FOR JOSEPH MAWMAN, IN THE POULTRY, SUCCESSOR TO MR. DILLY. M.DCCC. TO THE SOVEREIGN, _Who has graciously condescended to approve of the Author's Efforts "To establish a System of Morality and good Order in The Metropolis:"_ AND TO HIS PEOPLE; _In every Part of the British Dominions; whose favourable Reception of these Labours, for the Good of their Country, has contributed, in a considerable degree, to the Progress which has been already made, towards the Adoption of the Remedies proposed for the Prevention of Crimes, the Comfort of Society, and the Security of the Peaceful Subject:_ This Improved and Enlarged Edition of THE TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS, _is humbly_ _and respectfully_ DEDICATED. LONDON, Jan. 1, 1800. ADVERTISEMENT.