_Preparing for the Press, by the Author of this Work._
THE DEPREDATIONS COMMITTED ON ALL PROPERTY IMPORTED AND EXPORTED THERE; THE REMEDIES HITHERTO APPLIED; AND THE MEANS OF FUTURE PREVENTION, BY A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF
_THE FUNCTIONS OF THE VARIOUS MAGISTRATES AND OTHERS_
EXERCISING OR CLAIMING JURISDICTION ON THE RIVER;
_PENAL STATUTES AGAINST MARITIME OFFENCES_
[_The above will be published in the course of the Spring, by_ JOS. MAWMAN, _in the Poultry._]
_Ineffective System of Criminal Jurisprudence.--Facility of eluding Justice.--Severity and inequality of Punishments.--Necessity of revising our Penal Code.--Certain dangerous Offences not punishable.--Receivers of Stolen Property.--Extent of Plunder in the Metropolis, &c.--Proposed Restrictions on Receivers.--Coiners and Utterers of Base Money; the extent of their crimes.--Defects in the mode of prosecuting Offenders.--Pardons.--Periodical Discharges of Prisoners.--Summary of the causes of the present inefficacy of the Police, under nine different heads._ 1
ON THE SYSTEM OF PUNISHMENTS: THEORETICALLY CONSIDERED.
_The mode of ascertaining the Degrees of Punishment.--The object to be considered in inflicting Punishments--Amendment, Example, and Retribution.--In order to render Criminal Laws perfect, prevention ought to be the great object of the Legislature.--General Rules suggested for attaining this object.--Reflections on the Punishments authorised by the English Laws, and their disproportion.--The necessity of enforcing the observance of religious and moral Virtue.--The leading Offences made Capital by the Laws of England considered, with the Punishments allotted to each; compared with, and illustrated by, the Custom of other Countries; with Reflections.--The Code of the Emperor_ JOSEPH _the Second, shortly detailed.--Reflections thereon._ 29 [Transcriber's Note: should be p. 28]
_The numerous Receivers of Stolen Goods, under the denomination of Dealers in Rags, Old Iron, and other Metals.--The great Increase of these Dealers of late years.--Their evil tendency, and the absolute necessity of restraining them by Law.--Petty Thefts in the Country round the Metropolis.--Workhouses the causes of Idleness.--Commons.--Cottagers.--Gypsies.--Labourers and Servants.--Thefts in Fields and Gardens.--Frauds in the Sale and Adulteration of Milk._ 74