Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms

The objects of police are the cheapness of commodities, public security and cleanliness, if the two last were not too minute for a lecture of this kind. Under this head we will consider the opulence of a state. It is likewise necessary that the magistrate who bestows his time and labour in the business of the state should be compensated for it. For this purpose, and for defraying the expenses of government, some fund must be raised. Hence the origin of revenue. The subject of consideration under this head will be the proper means of levying revenue, 1 Neither the works of Heinrich, Freiherr von Cocceii, nor those of his son Samuel are wholly comprised in five folio volumes. The volumes referred to are probably Henrici de Cocceii sacrae regiae maiestati borussicae quondam a consiliis secretioribus Grothis illitsfrahis, Wratislaviae, folio, published with observations by Samuel Freiherr von Cocceii long after his father's death, and Satnuelis L. B. de Cocceii summi regni borussici cancellarii ministri status intiini . . . Introdiictio ad Henrici L. B. de Cocceii Grotinm illustratum, Halae, 1748, i vol. folio. These and no other folio works of either author appear in the 1776 catalogue of the Edinburgh Advocates' Library, and all except vol. iv of Grotius ilhtstratus are in Bonar, Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library. Dis sertations X and XI in the Introdiictio deal with ' some Ger man systems,' and the very lengthy Dissertation XII 'treats of laws.' 4 JURISPRUDENCE which must come from the people by taxes, duties, &c.…