Excerpt from 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 The causes of these extensive and accumulated wrongs being fully explained, and accounted for, in various parts of the Work, a very short recapitula tion of them is, therefore, all that is necessary in this Preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.