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<p n="59">To the Right Honorable <rs type="persName" id="NAHOCR70007_n59-1">Henry Dundas</rs>
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Etc Etc. Etc</p>
<p n="60">Sir</p>
<p n="61">A Regular Arrangement of Criminal Offenders may have escaped the attention of the Legislature but when<lb></lb>
the Existence of it produces from trifling Information some Effect little difficulty in the Mind can arise as to what it<lb></lb>
will produce assisted with proper intelligence. - From the Calendars of the <rs type="placeName" id="NAHOCR70007_geo1">Old Bailey</rs>
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distributed to Judges and others<lb></lb>
they amount to nothing more than an imperfect Statement from which no Correct information can be collected, This I<lb></lb>
am actuated as well to assert from my own researches as from the Opinionsof Men of Rank and<lb></lb>
High Character with whom I have had the Honor of conversing on the Subject, The shameful impositions<lb></lb>
practised on His Majestys Mercy as well as Artifices exercised in the mode of obtaining pardons for want of some<lb></lb>
System for detection and by which the Notoriety of Offenders may be collected is another Grand Object by such a Register<lb></lb>
to be obtained and by which I flatter myself the Police may be well informed, From the Short time I have been in<lb></lb>
the Secretary of States Office it may be considered by some impertinent and Rude in me to present any detail upon the<lb></lb>
Subject but encouraged and Patronized as I have been by you and the very flattering attention you have given to<lb></lb>
what I have advanced on this System of useful information I cannot desist from my pursuit I have only to hope the<lb></lb>
Continuance of your approbation and have the Honor to Subscribe myself</p>
<p n="62">Your most Grateful<lb></lb>
and most Obedient<lb></lb>
Humble Servant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="NAHOCR70007_n62-1">Edward Raven</rs>
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