The difference in point of benefit to the Community between a _Mind_ constantly occupied in objects of public utility, and that which is only occasionally employed, is great beyond all possible calculation.--Nor is the measure without precedent, even in the City of London, since the Recorder may, in his high office, be fairly considered in the light of a Magistrate with a salary. Ready on every occasion at their Sittings in the morning and evening, to offer their advice or assistance to the labouring people, as well as all ranks of the Community, who apply for it--to adjust their differences, and to protect them against wrongs and oppressions: prepared also, as a matter of business, to receive and follow up informations where crimes have been committed, and never to lose sight of the object while it is practicable to attain it; these Assistant Magistrates would afford incalculable advantages to the City: which would be still farther increased, if a System of co-operation of the other Police Magistrates were established, upon a plan which would unite their energy, and render their jurisdiction co-extensive. (See _ante_ pages 419, 420). It is a well-known fact, that since the establishment of Police Magistrates for Westminster, and the parts of Middlesex and Surry, contiguous to the City of London, great benefits have been experienced from the assistance and advice which have been afforded to the indigent, and the ignorant. Many quarrels and little law-suits have been prevented, and innumerable differences immediately reconciled without any expence. It is in this manner that Magistrates, acting up to the spirit of their Public Duty, and bestowing their _whole_ attention upon whatever relates to that duty, confer those obligations upon the Community which no moderate remuneration can repay. The office of a Police Magistrate is not like other public situations:--for the business is multifarious, seldom admits of any recess or a vacation.--It is, or ought to be, _constant_, _laborious_, and without _intermission_.[165] [Footnote 165: In the month of October, 1793, a respectable Committee, representing the great body of the Manufacturers in Spitalfields, waited on His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, with an Address of Thanks for the Establishment of the Police System; the substance of which is as follows: