To the Right Honorable Henry Dundas< no role > Etc Etc. Etc

Sir

A Regular Arrangement of Criminal Offenders may have escaped the attention of the Legislature but when
the Existence of it produces from trifling Information some Effect little difficulty in the Mind can arise as to what it
will produce assisted with proper intelligence. - From the Calendars of the Old Bailey distributed to Judges and others
they amount to nothing more than an imperfect Statement from which no Correct information can be collected, This I
am actuated as well to assert from my own researches as from the Opinionsof Men of Rank and
High Character with whom I have had the Honor of conversing on the Subject, The shameful impositions
practised on His Majestys Mercy as well as Artifices exercised in the mode of obtaining pardons for want of some
System for detection and by which the Notoriety of Offenders may be collected is another Grand Object by such a Register
to be obtained and by which I flatter myself the Police may be well informed, From the Short time I have been in
the Secretary of States Office it may be considered by some impertinent and Rude in me to present any detail upon the
Subject but encouraged and Patronized as I have been by you and the very flattering attention you have given to
what I have advanced on this System of useful information I cannot desist from my pursuit I have only to hope the
Continuance of your approbation and have the Honor to Subscribe myself

Your most Grateful
and most Obedient
Humble Servant
Edward Raven< no role >