A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
To which, add those from Woolwich as above 466
---- 1666
----
Total 7999
Of the above convicts there have been
Discharged 1610
Pardoned 790
Escaped 130
---- 2530
Removed to other Gaols 17
Transported to New South Wales 2207
Died[143] 1946
----
6700
And there remain in the Hulks on the
Thames 523
And at Langston Harbour 776
---- 1299
Total as above 7999
[Footnote 143: A malignant fever, at one period, carried off a vast
number, in spite of every effort to prevent it.]
By a subsequent account laid before the Select Committee of the House
of Commons on Finance, and stated in Appendix, M. of their 28th
Report, dated the 26th of June, 1798, it appears that the number of
Convicts stood thus:
In the Hulks on the Thames, at Woolwich 501
At Portsmouth 948
----
Total 1449
Besides 415 under Sentence of Transportation in the
different Gaols, making in all 1864.
From the same authentic Documents, (pages 115, 116,) it appears, that
of these Convicts, the following numbers will be discharged upon
Society in the succeeding 13 years:[144]
Portsmouth. Woolwich.
In 1800 140 115
1801 106 43
1802 127 26
1803 107 46
1804 149 77
1805 33 3
1806 1 1
1807 1 1
1808 1 1
1809 1 0
1810 1 0
1811 10 4
1812 1 0
--- 678 --- 317
For life 76 22
[Footnote 144: See page 98 of this volume, for an Account of the
Convicts enlarged the preceding eight years,
in all 1383
To be discharged as above 995
----
Total 2378]
RECAPITULATION.
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