As it may be useful, for the purpose of elucidating the suggestions already offered upon this branch of the subject, that a connected view of the result of these _Trials_ should make a part of this Work;--the following Abstract, (including the discharges of Prisoners by Magistrates) has been made up for this immediate purpose: from authentic documents obtained from the keepers of the eight different prisons and houses of correction in the city of London, and in the counties of Middlesex and Surry. It applies to the period, from September, 1794, till September, 1795, which is chosen as a sort of medium between Peace and War. It is impossible to contemplate this collected aggregate of the prisoners annually discharged upon the Public, without feeling a strong anxiety to remedy an evil rendered extremely alarming, from the number which composes the dismal catalogue of Human Depravity. Every inquiry in the progress of this Work proves a radical defect somewhere. While the public tribunals are filled with Judges, the purity of whose conduct adds lustre to their own and the national character, why should not every subordinate part of the Criminal Jurisprudence of the Country be so organized, as to co-operate, in the greatest possible degree, with the efforts of those higher orders of the Magistracy in accomplishing the purposes of substantial justice? Nothing could tend more to promote this object, than the appointment already proposed of a Public Prosecutor for the Crown. An institution of this kind would terrify the hordes of miscreants now at open war with the peaceable and useful part of the Community, in a greater degree than any one measure that could possibly be adopted. It would be the means of destroying those hopes and chances which encourage criminal people to persevere in their depredations upon the Public. A Summary View of the Prisoners _committed_, _tried_, _punished_, _disposed of_, and _discharged_ in the Metropolis, in _One Year_, ending in October, 1795. _Number of prisoners, punished and disposed of._