To the inhabitants of Greenwich & Blackheath. Whereas from a late regulation of the police of Westminster, &c. many idle and disorderly persons are driven into the adjacent villages and have committted divers felonies; a proposal, is therefore offered to the inhabitants to form an association to check robberies, and enter into the a subscription to defray the necessary expences, which mode has been adopted in most of the neighbouring parishers. By a concerted plan; immediate pursuit; liberal rewards on commitment; and defraying the expence of profecutions. ...

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