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Indirect
Prosecutor
be of his ticket, and how much the chances are against
him.
All this difficulty is would be got rid of by the simple
institution of a public prosecutor a magistrate of high rank
and character
who should conducts
the prosecution and take upon him the expence.
[Those who informed for money would might be paid at a
cheap rate: Those who] a hundred informers would
appear then for one that informs appears now: The laws each law
good or bad, would have its genuine effect shew itself in its genuine colours]. By it its fruits it
would be known. The
wheat might be laid up
in everlasting habitations:
the tares gathered together, &
thrown into the fire.
At
present the bad do a good deal of mischief, a detail which
for want of [forming being brought together] presenting itself at once and forming
a body large enough to strike the a impres imagination make an impression on the mind
is suffer'd to continue: even the good do nothing but
mischief by adding making an ineffectual addition to to the enormous load.] Those
who would inform out of public spirit, (a number
that would turn out much larger than is imagined) a (a) Fielding
Distinguished at the first
application by waving the
reward, he they would be heard
with the respect th and
confidence that was his their
due.
would then have find free scope to for the exercise of their
virtue. The delinquent would then no longer have
it in his power to exempt himself from the greatest
part of the penalty by compounding with the buying off the prosecutor, (b) (b)
or forestalling him & setting up a trustee of
his own to prosecute
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