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and of his ar her way of living, every such 
person shall be deemed a rogue and. vaga- 
bond, within the intent and meaning. of 
the Statufe 17 Geo, II. ¢. 5, intituled, 
An Act to amend and make more effectual 
the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, 
and other idle and disorderly Persons, and 
to Houses of Correction. 
[We confess we view this clause with 
great jealousy. It is liable to great 
abuse, and we have heard of abuses. 
It places every helpless person at the 
mercy of the most unprincipled har- 
pies in the community ; and in the city 
some persons thus suspected only have 
been flogged in the streets! If abused 
the fault isin the magistrates, and these, 
alas, are not always men of high minds, 
qualified to be trusted with such un- 
bounded power. ] 
If any person shall think himself ag- 
grieved thereby, such person may appeal 
to the justices of the peace, at the next 
general or quarter sessions of the peace to 
be held for the county or city wherein the 
cause of complaint shall have arisen, such 
person at the time of his conviction enter- 
ing into arecognizance with two sufficient 
sureties conditioned personally ta appear 
at the said sessions to try such appeal, and 
to abide the further judgment of the jus- 
tices at such sessions assembled; and, in 
case’ any such conviction of a reputed 
thief shal] be affirmed at such sessions, tlie 
said justices may adjudge the offender to 
be a rogue and vagabond, and proceed 
against him or her in the same manner as 
they might have done if snch rogue and 
vagabond had been committed to the house 
.of correction until such general and quar- 
ter sessions. 
Officers and patroles of Bow-street of- 
fice to act as constables. 
For the purpose of ensuring competency 
and fidelity in the watchmen and patroles 
employed by the Aldermen and Common 
Council of the city of London, and the 
vestries and other parochial and local au- 
thorities, within the limits of the weckly 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
(May 1, 
bills of, mortality, and the parishes herein 
before.mentioned, when any case of incom- 
petency, negligence, misconduct, or delin- 
nency, shall appear to any two justices of 
the peace acting within the said city. or li- 
mits and parishes, against any such watch- 
man or patrole, it shall be lawful for the 
said two justices, by writing under their 
hands and seals, to declare the same, and 
to pronounce the man so found incompe- 
tent or guilty of such negligence, miscon- 
duct, or delinquency, to be either suspend- 
ed for a limited time, or absolutely dis- 
missed from his office, aa they shall think 
proper. 
No man shall hereafter be appointed 
within the limits and parishes aforesaid by 
any authority whatsoever, to be a watch- 
man or patrole, who shall be above the age 
of forty years, unless he shall have been 
previously, and up to the time of such ap- 
pointment, employed in the said horse or 
foot patrole. 
For the better administration of the po- 
lice, it shall be lawful for the constable or 
headborough attending at any watch-house 
within those limits and parishes, between 
the hours of eight in the afternoon and six 
in the forenoon, to take bail by recogni- 
zance, without any fee or reward, from 
any person who shall be brought into his 
custody, without the warrant of a justice 
charged with any petty misdemeanor, if 
such constable shall deem it prudent to take 
such bail for the appearance of such person 
before the justices of the said public office 
in Bow-street, or at one of the said police 
oftices to be specified in the recognizance, 
for examination, at the hour of ten in the 
forenoon next after such recognizance shall 
be taken, unless that hour shall fall on a 
Sunday. 
Surveyors, having just cause to suspect 
felony, may enter on vessels and take up 
suspected persons, 
Disputes about wages for labour done 
on the river, &c. (except by Trinity bal- 
last-men) to be settled by justices, provi- 
ded the sum in question does not exceed 51. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
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POPULAR political writer hav- 
ing asserted that the circulation 
of Books has been affected by the ge- 
neral depression of the landed interest, 
we consider it proper to explain, that 
no general diminution has been expe- 
rienced by the London wholesale 
houses. It is true that maccaroni li- 
terature, and trumpery and temporary 
books, which have no recommendation 
Dnt the fmeness of their paper, and 
which are of no use but to fill up the 
spare shelves of a library, have suffered, 
owing to the curtailed resources of the 
silly and luxurious ; but,as the mass of 
readers has been doubled, and perhaps 
trebled, within the last thirty years, so 
all useful and really instructive books 
have experienced a progressive incréase 
of sale, and of all such books larger 
editions never were printed, or more 
rapidly sold. In proof of this we can 
assert, that the printing-presses of Lon- 
don were never in greater activity than 
during the passing winter; and, although 
so many works haye been i ic 
an 
