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Critics, 1802-1886', Historical Studies 21 (1984), p. 160. Hereafter cited as

. Roberts, 'Victorian Morals?'.
30. Roberts, 'Society', pp. 160-61.
31. Roberts, 'Society', p. 164; Roberts, 'Victorian Morals?', p. 159.
32. Roberts, 'Society', p. 164.
33. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 17 Jan. 1805.
34. Quoted in Roberts, 'Society', p. 168.
35. Roberts, 'Society', p. 170.
36. Quoted in Roberts, 'Society', p. 171. Smith's review appeared in the Edinburgh
Review in 1809.
37. Roberts, 'Society', pp. 171-3; Roberts, 'Victorian Morals?', pp. 163-7. See also
Bristow, VICe and Vzgilance, pp. 32-125.
38. The most famous female Loyalist was Hannah More. See Dozier, For King,
Constitution, and Country, pp. 92-5.
39. 7th ed. (Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith, 1806, rept. 1969.) Initially published
anonymously in 1795, Colquhoun put his name to the last three of seven
editions. Radzinowicz, History, vol. III, p. 221n.
40. Radzinowicz, History, vol. III, p. 247.
41. See Colquhoun, »eatise, pp. 214-17.
42. See Colquhoun, »eatise, pp. 536--66.
43. Colquhoun, »eatise, pp. 351-80, 567-601.
44. Colquhoun, 11-eatise, 'Preface', no page number provided.
45. For Dr Johnson's definition, see Radzinowicz, History, vol. III, p. 2. See also
Hanway, Defects of Police, p. 93.
46. Palmer, Police and Protest, pp. 118-19.
47. Colquhoun, »eatise, pp. 414-15.
48. Colquhoun, »eatise, pp. 412-13.
49. Colquhoun, »eatise, pp. 406-20.
50. Radzinowicz, History, vol. III, pp. 296-311. See, for example, 'Police and
Prisons', Reports from Committees of the House of Commons, vol. XIII, Finance
Reports, XXIII to XXXVI (1803), esp. pp. 344-59.
51. Philips, 'Law Enforcement in England 1780-1830', pp. 175-6. Philips describes
Colquhoun as a 'moral entrepreneur'.
52. Rogers, 'Policing the Poor', p. 145.
53. Colquhoun, Treatise, pp. 72-3.
54. See, for example, The Tunes; 1 Dec. 1796, p. 3; 4 Oct. 1797, p. 3.
55. See A Citizen of London: But no Magistrate, Observations on a lAte Publica-
tion Intituled 'A »eatise on the Police of the Metropolis by P. Colquhoun, Esq.'
(1800), and Sir Richard Phillips, Modem London: Being the History and Present
State of the British Metropolis (1805), pp. 146-7, quoted in Radzinowic:z, History,
vol. III, pp. 311-12.
56. Colquhoun, »eatise, p. 607.
57. J. Landers, 'Mortality and Metropolis: the Case of London 1675-1825', Popu-
lation Studies 41 (1987), p. 63. See also Wrigley and Schofield, Population
History of England, pp. 166-9.
58. Rude, Han011erian London, pp. 4-6.
59. George, London Life, pp. 412-14.
60. The census that year counted 1139000 residents. B.R. Mitchell, British Histor-
ical Statistics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 30.
61. J. Stevenson, 'Food Riots in England, 1792-1818', in J. Stevenson and
R. Quinault (eds), Popular Protest and Public Order (New York: St Martin's
Press, 1976), p. 35.

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