JB/149/167/001

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In this country and in these days the but a few years
time at which the clamour against the Seymours back, a particular conjunction arose, which gave
information particular occasion and acrimony to
the clamour against anonymous information. This
was the Association at the Crown and Anchor. The
benefits which that association may have been productive
of, how considerable soever, are not here in question. In this instance
it seems not altogether improbable, that the receipt
of anonymous information may have been productive
of some mischief. Why? From what cause?
From the same cause from which in virtue of anonymous newspaper information
is apt to be productive of so much mischief. The
association, being so numerous formed a little
public of themselves, acting judging some part of them
of course with the same precipitancy and partiality
and levity that characterizes the judgments
of the public at large. Not that it was in the
power of this or any other association to had
its suffrages been anonamous, to ref cause them
to be followed by punishment properly so called.
But what was in their power was to cause a man
through the medium of his reputation, to suffer
damage and thence injury, in a variety of shapes,
by prejudicing him in he opinion of those on whose
his ad encrease or contrivance of his prosperity
might come happen to depend. A man whose complaint antipathies
were confined to the pr certain persons members of
the government is to certain measures, or at the worst
to certain parts of the government easily in themselves
or in his eyes easily susceptible of alteration, would perhaps be
set down, on the information of some person whose
opposite contrary

Identifier: | JB/149/167/001 "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	167	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g&ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50021
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