[Footnote 28: Hints have been submitted to the Author for establishing a plan of _Travelling Police_, to extend 20 miles round the Metropolis; by means of Patroles well armed and mounted, who should be on the road at all hours; the expence to be defrayed by the produce of a toll to be raised for the purpose. This scheme might in all probability be much improved under the sanction of a General Police Board, without the additional expence of the proposed toll.] [Footnote 29: See the 28th Report of that Committee.] CHAP. V. _Reasons assigned why forgeries and frauds must prevail in a certain degree, wherever the interchange of property is extensive.--A considerable check already given to the higher class of Forgeries, by shutting out all hopes of Royal Mercy:--Petty Forgeries have however increased:--The Reason assigned.--The qualifications of a Cheat, Swindler, and Gambler explained.--This mischievous class of men extremely numerous in the Metropolis.--The Common and Statute Law applicable to offences of this nature explained.--The different classes of Cheats and Swindlers, and the various tricks and devices they pursue, to enable them to live in idleness, by their wits.--Sharpers, Cheats, and Swindlers, divided into eighteen different Classes--1st. Sharpers who become Pawnbrokers.--2d. Sharpers who obtain Licence as Hawkers and Pedlars.--3d. Swindlers who open shops as Auctioneers.--4th. Swindlers who pretend to discount Bills.--5th. Itinerate Jews.--6th. Cheats who sell by false Weights and Measures.--7th. Swindlers who defraud Tradesmen of Goods.--8th. Cheats who take Genteel Lodgings with false Names, &c.--9th. Cheats who personate former Masters to defraud their Tradesmen.--10th. Cheats who personate Footmen, and order Goods from Tradesmen.--11th. Cheats and Sharpers who deceive Persons from the Country.--12th. Cheats and Sharpers who trick Shopmen and Boys out of Parcels.--13th. Sharpers who attend Inns to pick up Parcels by various tricks and devices.--14th. Cheats who go from door to door, begging on false Pretences.--15th. Sharpers selling smuggled Goods; known by the name of Duffers.--16th. Female Sharpers, who attend Court and Public Places.--17th. Female Bankers who lend money to Barrow-Women at 6d. a day for Five Shillings.--18th. Cheats who pretend to tell Fortunes.--Various Remedies suggested._