text:  How is a police force established in any part of Great Britain? If we except the metropolis where the vast concourse from all parts of the empire unavoidably forced upon government fourteen years ago the establishment of a central police since found to be attended with such admirable effects it is every where set on foot by the _voluntary act_ of the inhabitants or a certain portion of them in a peculiar manner cognizant of the necessity which exists for such an addition to the means of public defence