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Prosecutor

Informers

Sir I know by experience says Sir John Fielding, p. 412
that for one information laid before me for
the sake of the reward I have received ten from
public spirit: for at present the most reputable
informers witnesses, sharing the fate of common informers,
are deterred from doing their duty to the
public.

Sr John goes on and says but the expence of such
prosecutions being allow'd out of the penalty would remove
the evil. That it was in regard to the prosecutions
of which he speaks he has in view, being prosecutions
of the summary kind before one or two justices
such an expedient would have some effect is not
to be doubted. But it is not every person witness
who can advance a few pounds or even a few
shillings: much less who at the risk of ever
seeing it again could afford to advance £
25, a sum more than equal to the a year's subsistence
of a for an ordinary family, and yet less than a prosecution of
that sort was ever carried in for in the ordinary
courts of justice.

[Every now and then a man will through from
public spirit sacrifice a certain portion his quiet and his time:
but that a man should besides all this through the same nature make hazard
a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	189	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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