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 |
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Page 245 - That he be hanged by the neck, and then cut down alive. 3. That his entrails be taken out and burned while he is yet alive. 4. That his head be cut off. 5. That his body be divided into four parts. 6. That his head and quarters be at the king's disposal.
Page 166 - ... in the course of their dealings. In London a number of female sharpers also infest public places. They dress elegantly, personate women of fashion, attend masquerades, and even go to Court. These, from their effrontery, actually get into the circle, where their wits and hands are employed in obtaining diamonds, and whatever other articles of value, capable of being concealed, are found to be most accessible. The wife of a well-known sharper is said to have appeared at Court, dressed in a style...
Page 6 - The injured, through compassion, will often forbear to prosecute: juries, through compassion, will sometimes forget their oaths, and either acquit the guilty or mitigate the nature of the offence : and judges, through compassion, will respite one half of the convicts, and recommend them to the royal mercy.
Page 351 - On his arrival at the gates of Paris, a genteel looking man opened the door of his carriage, and...
Page 353 - The gentleman, who, of course, was awake, perceived one of them to be his own servant. — 1 hey rifled his portmanteau undisturbed, and settled the plan of putting him to death. — The gentleman, hearing all this, and not knowing- by what means he was to be rescued, it may naturally be...
Page 354 - Emperor, and who committed many atrocious acts of violence and depredation, at Vienna, was traced to Paris by the police...
Page 167 - Court, dressed in a style of peculiar elegance ; while the sharper himself is supposed to have gone in the dress of a clergyman. According to the information of a noted receiver, they pilfered to the value of £1700 on the king's birthday, 1795, without discovery or suspicion.
Page 168 - ... over the day, for they never fail to have a luxurious dinner and a hot fupper, with abundance of gin and porter:— looking in general no farther than to keep whole the original...
Page 62 - ... preceding day, and which, for reasons that he could not comprehend, did not get up for many hours after the usual time. On her arrival at the wharf, the proprietor was confounded to find the whole of his casks stowed in the lighter with the bungs downwards ; and convinced that this was more.
Page 21 - ... by paffing it at its full value. It will fcarcely be credited, that of criminals of this latter clafs, who have either been...