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person witness that he can be either convicted or so much
as put upon his trial or arrested or called to
account in any shape: – if he is guilty, it is
much more favourable to him than it would be
if the informant declared himself, because in
that case conviction, as above mentioned might
take place at once, without either the trouble of looking
out for the further sufficient evidence, or the danger
of not getting it. In what way could anonymous
information be more prejudicial to him than
information from a person known, or any thing near so much as
equally prejudicial? No Board Magistrate, no
Board, no Jury ever yet convicted upon such
evidence on the bare allegation of an unknown
information, or of any number of unknown informants: – to ground a conviction, there must
be evidence given by an individual known,
examined in person, and examined upon oath
and in presence of the party charged. So sure as
a Magistrate presumed to convict without the concurrence
of any of those requisites (confession
which supersedes them all being here out of the
question) so surely would he himself be convicted
and punished on application to the Court of King's
Bench. The difference In every point of view
it is so much the better for the party of whose
supposed practices or designs form the subject matter of
the information, that the informant should be
unknown. If the informant were known, conviction
and punishment of the party referenced against would be
the probable consequence. But so long as the informant
is unknown, conviction without some other evidence is impossible,
and the worst that can happen to the a plotter is
the frustration of the plot.

Identifier: | JB/149/163/001"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	163	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g&ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50017
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