Country, so as to be able more effectually to watch the motions of all suspected persons; with a view to quick and immediate detection; and to interpose such embarrassments in the way of every class of offenders, as may diminish crimes by increasing the risk of detection: All this, under circumstances where a_ centre-point would be formed, _and the general affairs of the Police conducted with method and regularity:--where Magistrates would find assistance and information; where the greater offences, such as the_ Coinage of base Money, _and_ Lottery Insurances, _would be traced to their source; the care and disposal of convicts, according to their different sentences, be minutely attended to; and the whole System conducted with that intelligence and benefit to the Country, which must arise from the attention of men of business being directed solely to these objects, distinct from all other affairs of State; and their exertions being confined principally to the preservation of the morals of the People, and the prevention of crimes._ 3. _The want of an Institution of Police Magistrates in the Dock Yards, and in all great Commercial and Manufacturing Towns, where there are no Corporations or Funds for the administration of Public Justice._ 4. _The want of a Public Prosecutor for the Crown, in all criminal cases, for the purpose of preventing fraud, delay and expence in the administration of Justice._ 5. _The want of a more correct and regular System, for the purpose of obtaining the fullest and most authentic information, to avoid deceptions in the obtaining of pardons._ 6. _The deficiency of the System of the_ Hulks. 7. _The want of an improved System with regard to the arrangements and disposal of Convicts--destined for hard labour or for transportation._ 8. _The want of national_ Penitentiary Houses, _for the punishment and reformation of certain classes of Convicts._ 9. _The want of a more solemn mode of conducting Executions; whenever such dreadful examples are necessary for the furtherance of Public Justice._ Having thus explained the general features of the actually existing _Crimes_, and their probable causes, we shall in the next place proceed to some considerations on the present principles of _Punishment_ in this Country, as compared with those in other Nations and ages. It will then be requisite to enter into particular and minute details on both these subjects; and to offer some suggestions for the introduction of new and applicable laws to be administered with purity under a correct and energetic System of Police; which may be, in some degree, effectual in guarding the Public against those increasing and multifarious injuries and dangers, which are universally felt and lamented. CHAP. II.