Part 53 (2/2)

_Tons._ .

Articles new and old, of iron and steel 5000 100,000

bra.s.s 1500 150,000

copper 1000 120,000

lead 2500 50,000

pewter, solder, and tin 300 35,000

Pewter pots, stolen from 5204 Publicans 500 55,000[189]

Small articles of plate, china, gla.s.s ware, sadlery, harness, and other portable articles of house and table furniture, books, tea, sugar, soap, candles, liquors, &c. &c. &c. 100,000

Piece-Goods from shops and warehouses, by servants, porters, &c. 50,000

Wearing apparel, bed and table linen, &c. 40,000

Silk, cotton, and worsted yarn, embezzled by Winders and others in Spitalfields, &c. formerly 20,000_l._ a year, now supposed to be 10,000 ------ .710,000

2. _Thefts upon the River and Quays_, committed in a little way on board s.h.i.+ps in the River Thames, whilst discharging their cargoes; and afterwards upon the Wharfs, Quays, and Warehouses, when the same are landing, weighing, and storing; by glutmen, lumpers, jobbers, labourers, porters, lightermen, boys called mudlarks, and others employed, or lurking about for plunder, _viz._

Raw sugars, rum, coffee, chocolate, pimento, ginger, cotton, dying woods, and every other article of West-India produce, estimated at the commencement of the Marine Police Establishment at 232,000_l._ a year; but now reduced to 50,000

East-India goods, and merchandize from Africa, the Mediterranean, America, the Baltic, the Continent of Europe, coasting trade, &c. &c.

274,000_l._ now reduced by the Marine Police Inst.i.tution to 155,000

s.h.i.+p stores and tackling, including cordage, sails, tar, pitch, tallow, provisions, &c. taken from above 10,000 different vessels, estimated at 100,000_l._ but now reduced since the Establishment of the Marine Police, according to Estimate, to 45,000 ------- .250,000

3. _Thefts and Frauds_ committed in his Majesty's Dock-yards and other public Repositories, situated on the River Thames; including the plunder, pillage, and frauds, by which public property (exclusive of metals) is embezzled in the said stores, and from s.h.i.+ps of war. (Besides the frauds, plunder and pillage, in the Dock-yards, and from s.h.i.+ps of war at Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c. at all times enormous, but especially in time of war; when public property is unavoidably most exposed, equal at least to 700,000_l._ a year more:) making in all, one million sterling, at least; but reduced by the Marine Police from 300,000_l._ to 200,000

4. _Depredations_ committed by means of burglaries, highway robberies, and other more atrocious thefts, viz.

1. Burglaries by Housebreakers, in plate, and other articles 100,000

2. Highway Robberies, in money, watches, bank-notes, &c. 55,000

3. Private stealing, and picking of pockets, &c. 25,000

4. Stealing horses, cattle, sheep, poultry, corn, provender, potatoes, turnips, vegetables, fruit, &c. in London and the Vicinity 100,000 ------- .280,000

5. _Frauds_ by the coinage and recolouring of base money, counterfeited of the similitude of the current gold, silver and copper coin of the Realm 310,000

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