1786 £.10,840 1787 15,060 1788 6,590 1789 7,340 1790 8,970 1791 6,050 -------- £.54,850 1792 £.7,330 1793 8,160 1794 7,140 1795 3,290 1796 4,010 1797 9,650 -------- £.39,580 -------- Total in 12 years, £.94,430.] For the purpose of elucidating these suggestions, it may be useful to examine the different offences which constitute the aggregate of the charges made against criminals arraigned at the Old Bailey, in the course of a year. With this view the following statement is offered to the consideration of the Reader.--It refers to a period of profound peace (as most likely to exhibit a true average) and contains a register of the trials, published by authority, including eight sessions from September 1790 to 1791. From this it appears that 1088 prisoners were tried for different offences in that year, and that 711 were _discharged_! and yet, striking as this may appear, it may be asserted on good grounds, that the following melancholy Catalogue (extensive as it seems to be) does not probably contain even _one-tenth part_ of the offences which are actually committed! 6 For Treason in making false money £. _A reward in money on conviction amounting for each to_ 40 81 Highway Robberies _A reward (besides the highwayman's property) for each_ 40 41 Burglaries _A reward 40l. besides a Tyburn ticket worth 20l._ 60 10 House Breaking in the day time _A reward 40l. besides a Tyburn ticket worth 20l._ 60 23 Stealing goods to the value of 5_s._ from a shop, &c. _A Tyburn ticket value as above, average_ 20 3 Coining Copper Money _A reward in money_ 10 17 Horse stealing _A reward in a Tyburn ticket, average value_ 20 10 For Stealing Cattle and Sheep _A reward in money_ 10 2 Returning from Transportation _A reward in money_ 20 --- 193 Prisoners tried for offences entitling the apprehenders to --- rewards on conviction; and 895 also tried, for which no rewards are allowed, _viz._