§ "What is, at this time, the state of the metropolis in respect to crimes? Which are most prevalent, and most difficult to be guarded against?
§ The Recorder.
§ "The crimes most prevalent in the city of London and county of Middlesex, and which are most difficult to be guarded against, I take to be stealing to the amount of 40s. in a dwelling house, and stealing to the amount of 5s. privately in a shop. But offenders of the first description, viz. for stealing in a dwelling house, are nearly as numerous as all the other offenders subject to capital punishment.
§ The Common Serjeant.
§ "Offences against the personal security of individuals are not very prevalent larcenies. The larcenies from the person, and from shops and warehouses, are arrived to a very high pitch; but above all larcenies from dwelling houses, and those particularly through the agency of menial servants.