JB/149/157/001

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The topic of anonymous information presents itself
as a ground on which the any description of persons
who may regard the institution of a Board as being
likely to operate as an obstacle to their enterprizes
will be apt to wait for it, for the purpose in the view of attacking
it with the weapons of common plain rhetorick
with the benefit of a certain portion of vulgar prejudice
on their side. – Will not the Board, be
an office with the facilities given it for correspondence,
be an office for the receipt of anonymous
information? – same seems a question which can scarcely
fail of being asked. Such has been the importance
given to this topic that a few observations over and above what might be
necessary to convey
and establish a
simple negative
may not be altogether
ill-bestowed.

In the first place let anonymous information
be ever so great a grievance, it is not the in the
nature of any such institution as that of the proposed
Board to add any thing to the magnitude
of the grievance. It will can give no facility, over
and above what exists already, to the recovery
of such intelligence: it will can add nothing to whatever
power or disposition or power there may be already
to listen to it act upon it or listen to it. While the Post continues
to be a channel of communication, there
is no person existing by whom, nor any (in or
out of office) to whom such information may not
at any time be sent. It is to the case of State
offences, and that class whose State Offences only
that the apprehension entertained against information
thus circumstanced, apply. The existing Office of the Secretary
of State for the Home Department is an
Office which holds out at present to Informers thus circumstanced as obvious a prospect
to Informers of being attended to, as could be
holden out by the proposed Board: and no probable cause
can be shown why the attention paid by the proposed
Board⊞
⊞ Board to such
information should
be greater than in
any respect than
what is at present
paid to it in that
Office.

Identifier: | JB/149/157/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	157	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / f151
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50011
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