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Police of the Metropolis 141: Sharpers and blacklegs find an easy introduction into the houses of persons of fashion [...] for the purpose of playing at those most odious and detestable games of hazard.at blackleg, n.1
Police of the Metropolis 141: Sharpers and blacklegs find an easy introduction into the houses of persons of fashion [...] for the purpose of playing at those most odious and detestable games of hazard. Police of the Metropolis 64: The penalty of 40s. adjudged under the Bum-boat Act, to be paid by every person convicted of conveying goods pilfered from vessels.at bum-boat, n.
Police of the Metropolis 113: Forty to fifty Jew boys are regularly supplied with counterfeit half-pence; which they dispose of in the course of the day [...] for bad shillings at about 3d. each.at Jew boy, n.
Police of the Metropolis 119: A vast number of these low females have acquired the mischievous art of colouring the bad shillings [...] which they purchase from the employers of Jew-boys, who cry bad shillings.at Jew boy, n.
Police of the Metropolis 135: When those depraved people [...] find that any of the tricks which they have practised for a certain length of time become stale, (such as pricking the belt for a wager, or dropping the ring,) they abandon them.at ring dropping, n.
Police of the Metropolis 114: The counterfeit money now in circulation, not above one third part is of the species of Flats or composition money.at flat, n.1
Police of the Metropolis 63: The Lumpers [...] have the largest share of the plunder on the River [...] they are generally furnished with two pairs of trowsers, and with frocks [...] with large pockets, for the greater convenience of concealing and conveying plunder.at lumper, n.1
Police of the Metropolis 153: Morocco Men, who go about from house to house among their former customers, and attend in the back parlours of Public Houses, where they are met by customers who make insurances.at morocco man, n.
Police of the Metropolis 58: These aquatic plunderers... practise another device, by connecting themselves with men and boys, known by the name of mud-larks, who prowl about, and watch under the ship when the tide will permit, and to whom they throw small parcels of sugar, coffee and other articles of plunder, which are conveyed to the receivers by the mud-larks, who generally have a certain share of the booty.at mudlark, n.
Police of the Metropolis 66: These (who are distinguished by the nick-name of Scuffle-hunters) prowl about the wharfs, quays and warehouses under pretence of asking employment as porters and labourers, but their chief object is to pillage and plunder whatever comes in their way.at scuffle-hunter (n.) under scuffle, v.
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