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But the * True Sun' objects to them that they are spies in the hands of Government , and instances Popay and others . What of all this ? It is a . proof of the absence of morality in a Government , whose members deign to use such tools , but would Popay have been less a spy if he had not belonged to the Police Force ? In what is he worse or
better than Oliver or Castles , or any other of the gang of miscreants who are ever ready to sell the blood of their neighbours for hire ? But , ' says the * True Sun , ' * the New Police is neither more nor less than ari army in disguise . ' Still I answer , What if it be , provided it does not act as an army ? I shall be referred to the Calthorpe brutality . Then the remedy is not to attack the tools , but the rulers of
the tools . Get proper foremen—good men—make them responsible , and the evil will cease . The ruffians will scarcely meddle with the people again , and good men would weed them out . As to the number of the police when talked of as a means for keeping down the people—not the thieves—they are contemptible . I grant that in the days of the cold-blooded ruffian Castlereagh they would have been
a serious evil in addition to brutal yeomanry and service-trained soldiers , but those days are passed never to return , and public opinion is predominant . One of the strongest charges made against the new police is the fact of their being occasionally in plain clothes as spies , yet now a correspondent of the Weekly True Sun * gravely finds
fault with their uniform as tending to make them ' dandies , ' and proposes to put them in plain clothes ' with the distinctive mark of a red waistcoat , ' easy of concealment , and better adapted to facilitate spying . Really there is something poor in all this . If the uniform makes the men dandies , they are not likely long to be very formidable , save to the inmates of the ' area rails . ' Junius Reiuvivus .
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868 Postscript .
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\ s completing another volume of the c Monthly Repository , ' I cannot but refer to the disinterested and public-spirited , as well as able co-operation , which has imparted to its pages the chief portion of whatever worth , interest , or utility , they may possess . If I thank my coadjutors , it is on behalf of the public , to whose
service they have devoted time and talent which might by most , probably by all of them , have been rendered largely available for their individual advantage . And I invite their continued aid in the confidence that , by the circulation of this work in many new directions , we have the opportunity of advocating more efficiently the principles which we deem essential to the well-being and progress of the community .
With a satisfaction , in which I trust my readers will join , do I look back , not only on the accession of so many enlightened and philosophical minds , attracted by congeniality with the spirit of the ' Monthly Repository / to labour for the extension of its influence , but also on the topics which have exercised their powers .
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POSTSCRIPT TO THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY FOR THE YEAR 1833 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 868, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/64/
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