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That there are cases in which anonymous information may have
its use – that is, that real benefit may
be derived to the public from, there are cases
in which information may be productive of
benefit to the public, although the informant
should not be at the time of giving the information
nor ever at any subsequent time come to be
known make himself or be made known, will
not be denied by any one.

One case is – where a crime is as yet
but meditated, and an anonymous informant
without saying by whose individual, gives such
information information of it as serves for
the prevention of it, without no person in particular being called
to account, or be so much as suspected
of being concerned in it. Newgate is intended
to be broke open tomorrow night – The Bank
is intended to be broke open tomorrow night – A
quantity of smuggled goods be concealed in such
or such a hole or cave – Suppose a man to
give information to any such effect without making
himself known, supporting it by indications,
which on inquiry prove to be true. Is it better
that Newgate should be emptied of its inhabitants
or the Bank of its treasures, than that anonymous
information of this sort should be attended to and
acted upon? – The Gunpowder plot would not have
been

Identifier: | JB/149/160/001 "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	160	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g&ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50014
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