Note 88 — OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND PLEAS IN BAR OF EXECUTION.

At this moment London is infested by numerous bands of infant depredators, who in desperate hardihood, skill, perseverance, and combination, emulate the oldest criminals; female infants are permitted to walk the most public streets at mid-day, whose apparent age might bring their criminal associates within the statute 18 Eliz. The new vagrant act may give an useful stimulus to the police on this point, however vexatious and impolitic it may be on others.