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Misrule

Secret informations

Admitting Receiving anonymous secret informations.

At Venice as every body knows, secret informations
are admitted: lions mouths boxes inclosed
in lions' mouths are disposed here and there
in and about the palace of St Mark: and the contents regularly
examined by those Nobles
who are Inquisitors of state.
Voyages de Pelat I. 256
Moore's Travels
In consequence
of this, say the authorities, the persons
informed against are taken up and sentenced
to imprisonment banishment or death secretly & without
further proof or ceremony. [If all this be true] nothing
can be more reasonable and salutary than
the former part of the this constitution, nothing more
pernicious and abominable than the second latter. No
body it may be said is thus punished who has not done
something to deserve it
without cause who is innocent not guilty: be it so: but
as the people have no means of being assured of informed of
this the cause ground of the punishment, or even that it had any , it is the same to them as if it were inflicted
without cause in every case, as if it had had
none. It is a bad thing misfortune to society where
a good institution happens to have got connected with
a bad one: every eye is not in possession of provided with a prism
that will separate them. What should be the
harm of admitting secret informations be they ever so
secret , to anonymous, in the first instance, merely
as grounds of inquiry It is also would seem
almost superfluous to
say that in this case
not a hair of a mans
head should be touched
nor the least prejudice
done to him has declared
himself, and rendered himself
responsible for the
truth of the accusation.
But with this restriction, The magistrate judges whether
the matter as stated by the informer, be deserving his
enquiry.

Identifier: | JB/087/123/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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