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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by Which Public and Private Property and Security Are, at Present, Injured and Endangered, and Suggesting Remedies for Their Prevention
Under such peculiar circumstances, while immo rality, licentiousness and crimes are known to advance in proportion to the excessive accumulation of Wealth, it cannot fail to be a matter of deep regret, that in the progressive increase of the latter, the means of checking the rapid strides of the former have not been sooner discovered and effectually applied.
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