&  The  want  of  an  active  principle,  calculated  to  con-
centrate and  connect  the  whole  Police  of  the  Metro*
polis  and  the  Nation ;  and  to  reduce  the  general
management  to  system  and  method,  by  the  interposi-
tion of  a  superintending  agency \  composed  of  able,
intelligent,  and  indefatigable  men,  acting  under  the
direction  and  controul  of  his  Majesty's  Principal
Secretary  of  State  for  the  Home  Department. — On
these  persons,  it  is  proposed,  should  devolve  the  sub-
ordinate care  and  direction  of  the  general  Police  of
the  Metropolis;  so  as  to  obtain,  by  the  introduction
of  order  and  arrangement,  and  by  efforts  of  labour
and  exertion,  a  complete  History  of  t lie  connections,
and  pursuits  of  all  or  most  of  the  criminal  and  frau-
dulent persons  who  resort  to  the  Metropolis  ;  (either
natives  or  foreigners;)  forming,  from  such  mate-
rials, a  register  of  all  Jctiown  offenders,  and  there-
by establishing  a  clue  for  their  detection,  as  often
as  they  are  charged  with  committing  depredations
on  the  Public — with  power  to  reward  Officers  of
Justice,  and  all  other  persons  whose  services  are
found  to  be  useful  in  the  discovery  or  detection  of  de-
linquents of  every  description. — To  keep  an  Account
of  property  stolen,  or  procured  by  swindling  or
fraudulent  transactions  in  the  Metropolis,  as  well
as  in  other  parts  of  Great-Britain. 