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Admitting <add>Receiving</add> anonymous <add>secret</add> informations.<lb/></p>At Venice as every body knows, secret informations<lb/>are admitted: <del>lions mouths</del> boxes inclosed in lion's mouths are | Admitting <add>Receiving</add> anonymous <add>secret</add> informations.<lb/></p>At Venice as every body knows, secret informations<lb/>are admitted: <del>lions mouths</del> boxes <sic>inclosed</sic> <lb/>in lion's mouths are disposed here and there<lb/>in and about the palace of S<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> Mark: <note>and the contents regularly<lb/> examined by those Nobles <lb/>who are Inquisitors of state. <lb/>Voyages de <unclear>Pelat</unclear> I. 256 <lb/>Moore's Travels<lb/></note>In consequence <lb/>of this, say the authorities, the persons<lb/> informed against are taken up and sentenced <lb/>to imprisonment banishment or death <add>secretly &</add> without<lb/>further proof or ceremony. [If all this be true] nothing <lb/>can be more reasonable and salutary than<lb/>the former part of the <add>this</add> constitution, nothing more<lb/>pernicious and abominable than the second <add>latter</add>. No<lb/>body <add>it may be said</add> is thus punished <note>who has not done <lb/>something to deserve it<lb/></note> <del>without cause <add>who is innocent not guilty</add></del>: be it so: but<lb/>as the people have no means of being <del>assured of</del> <add>informed of</add><lb/><del>this</del> <add>the cause ground of the punishment, or enve that it had any</add> it is the same to them | ||
<del>as if it were inflicted <lb/>without cause</del> in every case, as if it had had <lb/>none. It is a <del>bad thing</del> misfortune to society where<lb/>a good institution happens to have got connected with<lb/>a bad one: every eye is not in posession of <add>provided with</add> a prism<lb/>that will separate them. What should be the<lb/>harm of admitting <add>secret</add> informations be they ever so<lb/><del>secret , so</del> anonymous in the first instance, <del>merely<lb/>as grounds of inquiry</del> The magistrate judges whether<lb/>the matter as stated by the informer, be deserving his<lb/> <note>enquiry.</note> | <del>as if it were inflicted <lb/>without cause</del> in every case, as if it had had <lb/>none. It is a <del>bad thing</del> misfortune to society where<lb/>a good institution happens to have got connected with<lb/>a bad one: every eye is not in posession of <add>provided with</add> a prism<lb/>that will separate them. What should be the<lb/>harm of admitting <add>secret</add> informations be they ever so<lb/><del>secret , so</del> anonymous in the first instance, <del>merely<lb/>as grounds of inquiry</del> The magistrate judges whether<lb/>the matter as stated by the informer, be deserving his<lb/> <note>enquiry.</note> | ||
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Secret informations
Admitting Receiving anonymous secret informations.
At Venice as every body knows, secret informations
are admitted: lions mouths boxes inclosed
in lion's mouths are disposed here and there
in and about the palace of St Mark: and the contents regularly
examined by those Nobles
who are Inquisitors of state.
Voyages de Pelat I. 256
Moore's Travels
In consequence
of this, say the authorities, the persons
informed against are taken up and sentenced
to imprisonment banishment or death secretly & without
further proof or ceremony. [If all this be true] nothing
can be more reasonable and salutary than
the former part of the this constitution, nothing more
pernicious and abominable than the second latter. No
body it may be said is thus punished who has not done
something to deserve it
without cause who is innocent not guilty: be it so: but
as the people have no means of being assured of informed of
this the cause ground of the punishment, or enve that it had any it is the same to them
as if it were inflicted
without cause in every case, as if it had had
none. It is a bad thing misfortune to society where
a good institution happens to have got connected with
a bad one: every eye is not in posession of provided with a prism
that will separate them. What should be the
harm of admitting secret informations be they ever so
secret , so anonymous in the first instance, merely
as grounds of inquiry The magistrate judges whether
the matter as stated by the informer, be deserving his
enquiry.
It is almo would seem almost superfluous to say that in this case not a hair of a mans head should be touched or the least prejudice done to him has declared himseld and rendered himself resposible for the truth of the accusation. But with this restriction,
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