[Footnote 81: An Officer of Police who was watching the house of a noted Receiver, in St. James's parish, being taken for a Thief by the watchmen, the latter entered into conversation with him, and naming the Receiver, he told the Officer that he being very liberal and kind to them, they did not disturb any person going to his house; and if he had any thing to carry there, he would step out of sight, so as to be able to say he had seen nothing.] [Footnote 82: Vide Act 30 Geo. II. cap. 24.] In the formation of such a System, it is absolutely necessary that care should be taken to secure a _regular_ and perfect _execution_, by means of a proper superintendance and inspection:--without this, the best laws will remain a _dead letter_.--Such has, in fact, been the case in a great measure with respect to several of the very excellent Statutes, now in force, relative to Receivers of stolen Goods; and such also would be the case with regard to the laws relative to the _Revenue_, if a System had not been established to secure their execution. If it be allowed that the prevention of crimes is at least of as much importance to Society, as any consideration connected with partial revenue:--if experience has shewn that, after the skill and ingenuity of the ablest lawyers and the most profound thinkers have been exhausted in framing laws to meet offences, which are daily committed; these offences are progressively increasing:--Is it not clear to demonstration, that some _active principle_ is wanting, which does not at present exist, for the purpose of rendering these laws effectual? This principle of activity is, (it is humbly apprehended,) only to be established by the introduction of such a System of _regulation_, as shall attach to all classes of dealers, who, in their intercourse with Society, are in the train of encouraging either directly or collaterally, transactions of _an immoral_, _a fraudulent_, or a _mischievous nature_. The idea is not new in the System of jurisprudence of the country;--Publicans have long been under regulations prescribed by Magistrates; Pawnbrokers also have been of late years regulated to a certain extent by Statute.--Let the same principle be extended to the other dealers alluded to; and let the Legislature, profiting by that experience which has manifested the cause of the inefficacy of a vast number of penal Statutes, establish such a system of _regulation_, _inspection_, and _superintendance_, as will insure to the Public the full benefits arising from good laws, administered with activity, purity, and discretion.