Under such a System, with a proper power of remunerating Officers and others, scarcely a _Robbery_, _Burglary_, _Larceny_, or _fraudulent Transaction_, could be committed, where the perpetrators would not be very speedily detected and brought to justice; for then the Magistrates, in their respective districts, would be enabled to act with confidence, vigour, and energy, in the discovery and apprehension of offenders;--and the effect would be to excite a general terror in the minds of every class of delinquents; which could not fail to operate strongly as a means of preventing crimes, and improving the morals and the happiness of the lower orders of the People. In addition to this these responsible Commissioners of Police might, with great propriety, and with no little public utility, have committed to them the superintendence of _all Receipts and Disbursements of the accounts_, and of _all monies applicable to objects of Police_: these they should lay annually before Parliament, if required, accompanied by a General Report; that the Legislature, as well as the Public at large, might see in what manner the funds had been applied; and what progress had been made in the prevention of crimes, and in restoring among the Labouring People that sense of morality, which never, perhaps, was at a lower ebb than at present. The most enlightened Foreigners who have visited this Metropolis, and contemplated the nature and organization of our Police System, join in one general remark upon it; viz.--"_That we have some shadow of Police, for apprehending Delinquents, after crimes are actually committed; but none for the purpose of preventing them_."--This certainly is, in one sense, literally true;--and from this source, combined with the imperfection of the Criminal Code, have arisen all those enormities and inconveniences already so amply detailed. Attached to the Laws and Government of his country, even to a degree of enthusiasm, the Author of this Work will not be too prone to seek for greater perfection in other nations: or to quote them as examples to be imitated in the Metropolis of the British Empire; and still less if such examples should tend, in the slightest degree, to abridge that freedom which is the birth-right of every Briton. But as all true liberty depends on those fences which are established in every Country, for the protection of the Persons and Property of the People, against every attack whatsoever: and as prejudices ought to be banished from the mind in all discussions tending to promote the General Weal, we ought not to be ashamed of borrowing good Systems from other Nations; wherever such can be adopted, consistent with the Constitution of the Country, and the Liberty of the Subject.