1825.] 
Brought over ....£16,371 19 10 
Add miscellaneous expen- 
diture for the first five 
years anda half, including 
£6,956. 18s. 8d. for fittin 
up Offices, &c. ........ 
Annual Exchequer fees, to 
the amount of ........ 
14,401 3 7 
4,646 9 6 
£35,419 12 114 
It may be supposed, after making due al- 
lowance for every thing, that the seven 
police-offices cost, annually, about £4,000 
each, in round numbers, or .... £28,000 
The new office, for protecting 
goods and passengers on the 
River, being more expensive, 
may be reckoned at, per annum 5,000 
Bow-street must cost, at least, on 
an average, per annum...... 
“a 8,000 
Annual expenses of nine police- 
offices in the metropolis, about £41,000 
_ In 1797, the total expense of offen- 
ders, after conviction, was estimated, 
very inadequately, as follows :— ; 
1. Expense of the Bow-street establish- 
ment, including 67 patroles, paid out of 
the Civil List, about.......... £6,000 
2. Expenses of the seven public 
offices, subject to a deduction of 
£3,000 for fees and penalties,— 
the whole subject to a charge on 
the Consolidated Fund........ 14,000 
Total expense of the police, for 
detecting and apprehending de- 
TAA GUETES i: 5):<)= )a1= lp» «i8's/ny~ 5'v,e;0)ce 20,000 
3. Expense of rewards for certain 
classes of felons, after convic- 
tion, from Civil List,—supposed 
to be, per annum .... £15,000 
4. Expense of maintaining ' 
convicts at home, about 30,000 
5. Expense of transport- 
ing and clothing convicts 
sent to New South 
Wales, about ... 35,000 
80,000 
Total presumed expense, after 
conviction, exclusive of a very 
large additional sum, paid out 
of the rates of the different 
COUNTIES 06 002--seeeeeseeee +» £100,000 
The police establishment was esti- 
mated by Mr. Colquhoun, in 1798, at 
£100,000 per annum ;—but, including 
convicts, it amounted, in 1797, to 
£155,869. 13s.11d.; since when, a new 
police-office has been added :—so that, 
with the Alien department, the sum of 
£200,000 must be now, at least, ex- 
pended. 
Police of the Metropolis—County Disbursements. 
407 
The demands on the convictions of 
certain classes of felons, appear, from 
the 639th page of the forty-first volume 
of the Journals of the House of Com- 
mons, to amount, upon an average, to 
£15,000 per annum. 
[Even the latter sum was nearly 
doubled in the years 1810—1811. We 
should be obliged to any correspondent 
that could furnish us with any authen- 
tic state of the actual expense, with the 
respective items in 1824-5.] 
COUNTY DISBURSEMENTS :— 
FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHTH REPORT OF THE 
SELECT COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, ETC,— 
ORDERED TU BE PRINTED IN 1798. 
County of Cornwall. 
It appeared, from the accounts of the vice- 
treasurer, that the sum charged upon the 
rates of that county, for objects relating par- 
ticularly to the police, amounted, in the year 
ending at Easter 1797, to above £1,800 
And, in the year ending at Easter 1798, 
to upwards Of 2.2... .ssn0e ones ojn1,900 
County of Dorset. 
Police expenses, for the year ending at 
Michaelmas 1796, amounted to upwards 
SEF Ioteos eleta £1,300 0 0 
Articles of a mixed nature, 
which may be classed under 
that head....... vies saye«) 60011 0\9 0 
£1,900 0 0 
Deduct, for the county’s 
share of the profit of the 
labour performed by pri- 
soners within that year... 495 0 13 
The real expense of the 
county under the head of 
police .. seveve ++ £1,404 19 104 
[N.B.—This sum is exclusive of £19,690, raised in 
the county, between the years 1790 and 1796, for the 
erection of a jail.] 
The medium of the police expenses 
of all the counties in England, including 
places having peculiar jurisdictions, and 
exclusive of repairing and building of 
jails, was estimated, in 1798, at £50,000, 
and must have increased greatly since 
that period. ; 
The police expenses, “left as a bur- 
den on the sheriffs of England,” were, 
at the same period, estimated at £10,000 
per annum. 
It was our intention to have reserved 
the above statements till we could col- 
lect such additional documents as might 
both complete and bring down to the 
present 
