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in default” till he comes, &c. &c., would be saved. Suppose, for instance, 
a man “enters” at Bow-street, or Marlborough-street, with his leg 
broken, core ba 
MaAcistrate.—* Well, my friend, what is the matter with your, ¢.. 
Man.—“ Please your Lordship, my leg is broke,” sugoletz) seed yr19v 
NewspapPer Reporter.“ Which of his legs*is broke?’ ogy bobres 
Macistrate.— Silence! Who broke ‘your ‘heady my “good sl 
low 2” $ : an nvr} i ‘ane fl 
Man.—* Please your Worship, it’s my leg. It was Lord Harborough, 
and three or four more amongst ‘em.” i aged oved 
“Macistrate.—* Lord Harborough !"—(Turns to Clerk)" « We» 
have his bail, have not we ?” bp game 
CLEerK.—<« Yes, Sir Richard, for five hundred... He is only bound, as. 
yet for two.” eunsgqE 
Recognizance is then filled up for two or three hundred’ more; a’ 
quire, signed in blank, being left lying at the office. No story—no’ 
publicity. Man dies before he has time to indict at the sessions, and, 
there is an end of the affair. ry aris 
I think, however, personally, that we might carry the thing: farther 
than this. And that a nobleman of fifty or sixty thousand pounds of” 
annual income, might manage so to connect himself with the Executive 
authorities, as to make any steps taken against him by the law or police. 
merely nominal—as they are against monied persons in Irelands In fact, 
to be carried as it were before himself, and be his own apprehender,: 
when he committed any offence. ‘For instance, what should prevent such” 
a noble individual, resident in town, and being himself a, magistrate . 
for Middlesex, from furnishing some of the chief executive duties..of,. 
olice in London out of his own immediate retinue and houseltold2-: 
hy should he not get his butler made high constable of Westminster?” 
His grooms, all members of some ‘ Association Corps of Cavalty ?*" 
His private secretary might be a practising barrister (that is, a barrister. , 
without practice) ; his steward an attorney ; all his footmen special.con-'; 
stables, and his porter beadle of the parish. I can’t imagine any thing® 
more convenient than, in driving one’s cabriolet along, first ‘to: kiéck. 
an apple-stall down, and then order one’s servant to. step. a 
apprehend the mistress of it, after she got up again? Jf a boy.; 
laughed at one’s shirt-collar, to have him. taken up: instantly asu@dis\ 
“orderly,” and, if he attempted to justify himself, committed asa 
rogue and a vagabond?” What an addition would the crown ‘and garter, ~ 
&c., the insignia of constabular dignity, be to the head of Bata 
cane behind one’s carriage! and though it may be objected,‘ 
servant so gifted would have the power to take up his master,” yetias” 
his own deposition would undoubtedly follow such an abuse of authority, it | 
is née which he would be very chary of committing.—In conclusion, lét. 
it be understood—of shoulder-knots—I will endeavour to organize some., 
plan, in detail, to the effect above. But, in the mean time, while-Hlun-> 
kies remain ungraced by office, I could wish those who employ then?-t6" 
Jook a little more strictly after their manners. Several friends of mine” 
about town, whose force lies in their hands and heads, rather. than.) 
in their pockets, have complained to me of the impertinence andm-, 
accommodating spirit of these fellows, who block up the: approach» to» 
public places: The true course, in any such case of trouble, 18 to thrashy 
the rascal who offerids you soundly on the spot ; and, next-day, Jnsist:, 
on his dismission from his service, or satisfaction from. his master-poo ro. 
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