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Heath was any thing but an approval of those clubs; its language is moderate, and it scarcely conveys an intimation against Catholic emancipation. The great exertions made by the victorious party were not met by the opponents of the measure by any similar means-therefore the Brunswickers triumphed; but, like Pyrrhus, regardless of the consequences of their victory.

The poll now on the same spot must tell what is the real sense of the county of Kent on this question. The county of Kent can never again lay claim to character or consistency if it continues to send one member to parliament to support a measure, and another to oppose it.

Pardon me the observations, my friends and brothers. You would all, in my place, feel the same sentiments. I trust I have vindicated myself, that I do not deserve the taunts that have been thrown on me; and I conclude by feeling convinced that you will believe that no freeholder of this county will exert himself more than I shall in my place in parliament, to secure the ascendancy of the Protestant principles of these kingdoms. When these measures are arranged, and they must be arranged this next session, that will provide for the extension of civil rights to the seven millions of the Catholic inhabitants of the United Empire. With every sentiment of respect,

I remain, brother freeholders,

Tunbridge Wells, Oct. 28.

Your very obedient servant,

TEYNHAM.

ON THE

INCREASE OF CRIME,

AND THE DEGREE OF ITS EXTENT,

THE PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF SUCH INCREASE, AND THE MOST
LIKELY MEANS FOR THE PREVENTION OR MITIGATION
OF THIS PUBLIC CALAMITY.

ADDRESSED to

THE MAGISTRACY OF THE COUNTY OF SURREY,
IN THE FORM OF A REPORT,

BY RANDLE JACKSON, Esq.

A MAGISTRATE OF THAT COUNTY.

LONDON:-1828.

GENTLEMEN,

SOME of our brother magistrates having expressed a wish that the facts contained in this Report should appear in print, I readily obey the intimation.

You are aware, that in order to suit its reading to the short space of time which it is supposed can be spared from the routine of local business on the county day, it was considerably shortened by the Committee, who transferred part of the text to the Appendix, omitted some of the remedial propositions, wholly left out, the arguments adduced in support of others, and dispensed with certain extracts from public papers.

Presuming on your present comparative degree of leisure, and regarding such extracts, remedial suggestions, and arguments, as essential to the support of those resolutions which you were pleased to adopt on my motion at the Epiphany sessions, I have restored this draft Report to the order in which I presented it, through Mr. Lawson, to the Committee, myself being too indisposed to attend. Respectfully submitting it to your consideration,

I have the honor to remain,

Gentlemen,

Your faithful and obedient servant,
RANDLE JACKSON.

North Brixton,

24th April, 1828.

SURREY TO WIT-At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, holden at Saint Mary, Newington, in and for the County of Surrey, on Tuesday, the 15th day of January, in the year 1828:

IT IS RESOLVED, That this Court regards with great concern the alarming increase of crime within its jurisdiction, particularly the crimes of burglary, housebreaking, and street-robbery, which in many instances have been committed with confederated strength, and in a manner so open, violent, and atrocious, as to have placed the persons and property of the inhabitants of this county in a state of insecurity, demanding the immediate attention of the magistracy, and of all persons in authority.

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It is ordered by this Court, that a committee be formed, consisting of the chairman of the session, the representatives in parliament for this county, and Sir Richard Frederick, Sir Thomas Turton, Barts., George Holme Sumner, James Trotter, Thomas Page, Samuel Thornton, Randle Jackson, Francis Wightwick, Henry Drummond, Benjamin Barnard, Robert Hudson, William Crawford, William Speer, John Spicer, Edgell Wyatt Edgell, John Ivatt Briscoe, Thomas Lett, Charles Hampden Turner, Launcelot Baugh Allen, Robert Joseph Chambers, Thomas Gaitskell, John Woolley, Robert Hedger, Maurice Swabey, Joseph Terry Hone, Esquires, and George Walton Ouston and John Courtney, clerks, to take into their consideration, from time to time, as occasion may require, the state of the police of the county, and such matters as they shall think connected therewith, and to report their opinion to the session.

It is further ordered, That it be an instruction to the said Committee to take into their early consideration the expediency of establishing a local preventive police, in such parishes of this county as may be willing to adopt that mode of protection.

It is resolved, That this Court will at all times be ready to attend to communications from government, and will, to the best of its power, contribute its aid to the protection of his Majesty's subjects, both as to their persons and property; and

It is ordered by this Court, That William Joseph Denison and Charles Nicholas Palmer, Esquires, the representatives in parliament for this county, be, and they are hereby requested to present a copy of the foregoing resolutions and orders to his Majesty's secretary of state for the home department, and to give their support to any bill which may be brought into parliament for the remedy of these evils.

Lastly, it is ordered, That the chairman of this session be, and

he is hereby requested to send a copy of the foregoing resolutions and orders to the lord mayor of the city of London, and to the chairman of the quarter-sessions for the counties of Middlesex, Kent, Essex, and Sussex.

By the Court,

LAWSON.

REPORT.

YOUR Committee, in considering the matter referred to them, namely, the alarming increase of crime within this county, pro pose to direct their attention to the following propositions; namely

1. The fact of the alleged increase of crime, and the degree of its extent.

2. The causes of such increase.

3. The most likely means to prevent or mitigate this growing calamity.

Under the latter head, your Committee will consider a measure which, in their opinion, exceeds in importance all others connected with this subject, and respecting which they feel bound to declare their firm conviction, that without its adoption they utterly despair of any material qualification of the evil so generally deplored they mean, the permanent removal of the persons of the offenders from the United Kingdom.

With regard to the fact of an increase of crime, your Committee apprehend it to be too notorious to call on them to enter into much proof. Scarcely an individual of your Committee but has had cause, on account of himself or friends, to lament the want of that security for person and property, which is the legitimate end of all government, and to obtain which the subjects of this country contribute so large a proportion of their respective means. Your Committee will, however, refer to a few public statements, in order to afford some idea of the extent of such increase.

The convictions in England and Wales, according to a statement of Sir Eardley Wilmot, a magistrate of the county of Warwick, were as follows; viz.

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making an increase in sixteen years of nearly 300 per cent.

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