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