356 ANNUAL REGISTER, I817. 



classes for sliaring the produce of 

 seizures, agreeably to your Royal 

 Ilighness's order in council of the 

 14th October last. 



We now have to submit to your 

 Royal Highness, in order that the 

 funds of the chest and hospital at 

 Greenwich, and of the widows" 

 charity, to which the deductions, 

 herein before prciposed to be abo- 

 lished, are applied, may not suffer 

 by this arrangement, that your 

 Royal Highness may be pleased to 

 direct that the calculated amount 

 of the said deductions, on the 

 number of officers, and men re- 

 spectively employed, shall be paid 

 over by the Navy Board to the 

 funds of the said institutions, 

 imdersuch regulations and checks 

 as we may think necessary, for 

 ensiu'ing the full and equitable 

 ariangement of this matter be- 

 tween these different branches of 

 the service ; which, we have no 

 doubt, ran be attained with great 

 convenience to all the offices con- 

 cerned, and without any increase 

 of establishment, or any expense 

 whatsoever to the ]mblic. And, 

 finally, M-e have to submit that the 

 whole of this arrangement shall 

 be carried into execution from and 

 after the 1st of January next, or 

 as so<in after as conveniently may 

 be. 



In pioi)()sing alterations in the 

 present practice of the iiaval csta- 

 Ijlislunent, so in>i)nrtnnt as those 

 hereinbefore submitted to your 

 Royal Highness, we have thought 

 it right to enter into a detail of the 

 motives and prii.ciples by which 

 we have been guided. \Ve have 

 ourselves, in the investigation 

 \\hich has led to this INIemorial, 

 found con!^iderat)le inconvenience 

 from the w ant of explanation as to 



the precise views on which former 

 arrangements were made ; andne 

 therefore humbly hope that your 

 Royal Highness will be graciously 

 pleased to excuse the length of 

 detail into which, on the present 

 occasion, we have presumed to 

 enter. 



NEW POLICE KEPORT. 



[Ordered by the House of Commons to be 

 ])riiited July 8, 1817.] 



Second Rqiort from the Coiumittee 

 on the Police of the Metropolis : 

 with Extracts from the Ulinutes of 

 Evidence annexed. 

 The Conunittce appointed to in- 

 quire into the state of the police 

 of the metropolis, and to report 

 the same, with tiieirbbservatidns 

 tlicreupon, from time to time, 

 to the House, together with the 

 minutes of the evidence taken 

 before them ; aiul who were in- 

 structed to report generally upon 

 the execution of the laws relat- 

 ing to the licensing of victual- 

 lers ; and to whom the several 

 jietitioiis which have been pre- 

 sented to the House in this ses- 

 .tiion of parliament, relating to 

 licensed victuallers, and disor- 

 derly houses, were referred, 

 have, piu'suant to the order of 

 the House, further inquired into 

 tlie matters to them referred, 

 and have agreed to the follow- 

 ing Report : — 

 Your committee have examined 

 evidence upon a g-eat vaiitty 6f 

 siibiec'fs as connected with the po- 

 lice of the n-.etropolis, and propose 

 to pmsue the plan which has been 

 adopted in the case of the licens- 

 ing system, by bringing under the 

 considerati n of jtr.rliament the 

 various and important subjects 



that 



