Merchant, statistician, magistrate, river police (1745-1820)

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Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. 1 / [John Coakley Lettsom].

[Patrick Colquhoun correspondence].

A treatise on indigence; exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing the comforts of the labouring people ... / by P. Colquhoun.

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 / [Patrick Colquhoun].

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[Patrick Colquhoun correspondence].

A treatise on indigence; exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing the comforts of the labouring people ... / by P. Colquhoun.

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. 1 / [John Coakley Lettsom].

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 / [Patrick Colquhoun].