JB/149/165/001

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One case there is, it must be confessed, in which
information, anonymous information, if false as well as anonymous, is productive of incalculable
mischief, and that is where the tribunal
of the public at large is the tribunal is the Court to which it is given:
anonymous inform accusation convey'd for example, through
the channel of a newspaper. – Why? – because
the tribunal of the public at large is a Court composed
of Judges, a great part of whom are always ready
to convict, and to punish as far as their powers
of punishment extend to the extent (which is not inconsiderable)
of their powers of punishment, without
any bother or further evidence. Here is real grievance:
but this is not the grievance which lies heavy
upon the minds of those by whom the horror of on whose part the clamour against
anonymous information is apt to be most vehement:
what the grievance is that presses upon them will be
mentioned principally presently. Here the mischief
of the information is not only aggravated but in most instances great measure
constituted by its being anonymous, that is by
the circumstance of the author's being concealed unknown:
for so long as the author is unknown, there is neither
in case of falshood neither remedy adequate means
of defence fot the party accused, nor remedy
for the injury wrong, nor means of persons bringing down
punishment on the wrong doer: and hence the
propensity to inflict such injuries by such means, and the
unhappy frequency with which they are inflicted.

Identifier: | JB/149/165/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	149	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	165	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g&ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50019
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