The analogy between actual pillage and smuggling in the conception of nautical labourers, and the uncontrolled habit of plunder which too long existed, trained up myriads of delinquents who affixed in their minds no degree of moral turpitude to the offence; which of course extended itself both with respect to Commercial and Public Property beyond all bounds, until a remedy was imperiously called for, and at length applied by means of an experimental System of Police applicable to that object. _Another cause, and certainly none of the least_, which has tended to facilitate the commission of crimes, has been the want of a proper control over persons of loose conduct and dishonest habits, who have opened shops for the purchase and sale of _Old iron_, and _other metals--Old stores--Rags--Old furniture--Old building materials, and second-hand wearing apparel, and other goods_;--and _also cart-keepers_ for the collection and removal of these articles from place to place. The easy and concealed mode of disposing of pilfered articles, through the medium of these receptacles, has tended more to the corruption of the morals of youth, and to the multiplication of crimes, than it is possible to conceive; nor has the mode of Licensing _Pawnbrokers_, without a due regard to character and a more effectual control, been in many respects less mischievous to the Community.--To the reputable part of this class of dealers it is degrading and even cruel that the reproach and stigma, arising from the nefarious practices of the fraudulent, should unavoidably in the public mind, attach upon those that are blameless, and fair in their dealings.--While the law admits of no power of discrimination, and no means of excluding improper characters exist, the evil must continue; and while it remains on the present footing, it must also be considered as no inconsiderable medium, by which both petty and more atrocious crimes are produced. _But perhaps the greatest source of delinquency and crimes is to be ascribed to ill-regulated Public Houses_, conducted by men of loose conduct and depraved morals--Since it is in these receptacles that the corruption of morals originates.--It is here that the minds of youth are contaminated, and the conspiracies for the purpose of committing frauds and depredations on the Public formed and facilitated. A disorderly and ill-regulated Public-house, therefore, is one of the greatest nuisances that can exist in civil Society.--Innumerable are the temptations which are to be found in these haunts of idleness to seduce the innocent, and to increase the resources of the evil-disposed to do mischief.