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The Calendar of delinquency will be in legislation
what the termometer is in Chemistry:
and the improvement the moral art may receive
from the study use and attentive observation
of the former instrument may come to rival
the wider progress made by the natural secure
in the other.

The progress in tradeNational progress in regard to and thence in populationregard to wealth and population
has of late, though but of late, been thought worthy
of noting down and commentingattending to upon. It seems
almost time that the progressstate of the nation in point in regard to internal
security and morality should also be thought worthy
of being collected and attended to of the legislationstatesmans
nature

It will be an index and measure of the quantum
of the demand for measures of the remedial cast
in regard to each head of deliquency andwill serve as a touchstone
to show the real and practical worth and value of every
measure which comes to be resorted to

Proceeding out from theory and analogy — of a
Parish Watch is necessary, by parity of reason so ought a City a Metropolitan
Watch — If a City or Metropolitan Watch
so ought a National. But a National Watch or
Marichampic would to answer its purpose in any
degree will not cost less than say for argument
sake £20,000 a year. Turn then to the Calendar
of Delinquency and see what the annual amount may be
of the aggregate of property lost by Highway Robbery -
if it be less than th £20,000 a year — if it be common
than £10,000 a year, the measure of a National Watch may bepronounce

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Identifier: | JB/150/608/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	107
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	608	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b13 / d13 / f182
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50829
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