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to the other branch, it must indeed be confessed, thus
among Among the articles of proposed to be inserted gratis in the
Police Gazette are some that at present pay a
Stamp duty in the shape of advertisements: and that
thus much of the amount of that duty would it
must be confessedaccordingly be to be sacrificed. But surely there
can-not be a sacrifice more th demand for which
is of a more urgent nature. To impose a duty,
and a duty which in a multitude of cases must
operate as a prohibition, upon a branch of information necessary
to the execution of penal justice is to justice
in the bad. To issue immense rewards for
information of this kind with one hand, while for
the gain of a five shilling, to sit those who would a afford
it, and be glad to afford it, without reward,
are driven away with the other, would be is an inconsistency
not less preposterous in a financial point of with a view to RevenueFinance, there
with a view to Police.
At present, the demand for information itself is thus taxed,
and by being taxed prohibited, and prevented from appearing in all instances
the demandbeing given appearing for information of this as well as of
every other nature: but taxingpreventing the appearance of the demand for information
is preventing the appearance of the information
itself. By preventing a man whose goods
have been stolen from making it universally known that they have been
stolen, and that such an one is suspected of being the thief, the tax prevents him from hearing where the goods may be found again, or where the thief may be apprehended.
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