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Notoriety: — Office of Intelligence
credo and duties of their office station will prompt not
not another to be to be backward in giving them the most authentic 2
& best-digested 1 information. Something
may even be expected [from men Volunteers], in a busy
& political nation like this, from Volunteers.
Unless something is there be done regards paid to the modesty
of some, (in the most modest & shamefaced
nation under the Sun) and to the prudential
fears apprehensions of others, nothing is to be expected
of those two complexions from persons so circumstanced: T
The Director should therefore be under obligation
to annex in his publication no other than fictitious signatures
when required, & to censur with such other
devices as are suggested, for concealment: for
the identity of persons may often be fixed by other circumstances
as effectually as by name.
On the other hand, if [all manner of] anonymous
informations were to be received, they would be uninstructive
assurance of security for as there truth would would be no dependance on their
Truth, & provisions, as turning the work into a
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