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4 Oct 1803
Evidence
Judicature
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Of the institution modified as here proposed, the true character is not severity, but lenity: the natural effect - not punishment, but prevention without punishment.
To confine to delinquents /the guilty/, or rather to those who but for the /this/ warning might have become guilty the terror/ apprehension/ it is calculated inspire, and at the same time to secure it against the unpopularity /adverse[?]/ to which not altogether without just case it would otherwise be exposed, an additional notification would require to be subjourned[?]. This is - that the only use that would ever be made of any evidence of this stamp would be that of making it serve as a clue to unexceptionable evidence to an intercourse with the anonymous informer, if on the assurance of the requisite attention and conditional severity, In [...?] to present himself for examination before the compulsory[?] eye, if not, to a search after any such other unexceptionable evidence as the anonymous information may have pointed out. To this might be added that as often as it should happen that any general importations or intimation[?] to the prejudice of any individual character should be added or substituted to any such specific indications, all such unsupported charges would /might/ be seen of being treated with tempted[?] disregard.
When the anonymous letter was presented to Alexander as he was about to take the prescribed medicine in the [...?]. Alexander upon receiving the anonymous letter by which an intimation was given that poison had been infused into the cup of medicine that would be presented to him by Philip his physician, inquired no further but drank off the draught before the physicians face. This has probably being quoted more than once as an example of the treatment which by a truly magnanimous sovereign would be shewn upon information of this stamp. But the magnaminity displayed by this hero was displayed at his own personal risk: the magnaminity displayed by an official superior who should refuse to pay regard to an anonymous address indicating incriminative[?] evidence against one of his subordinates would be displayed at the risk of the public, and to the accommodation of his own indolence. How can the personal behaviour of every subordinate in positions and [...?] office, be supposed to be a jurist as well [...?] to the [...?] and candour who presides in it as that of a <...> physician out materials be he the monarch from whom be it scarcely.
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Title: [4 Oct 1803 Evidence Judicature]Description: 4 Oct 1803 Evidence Judicature Anonymous Were it necessary for a man to look over whatever stricture have been made in publications /books/ on the subject of anonymous evidence, my expectation would be to find /what he might expect to find would be a/ sentence of condemnation without distinction or reason. So far as concerns the examples /applications/ on the contemplation of which the censures have been grounded, I should suppose it to be well /the censures may not improbably have been/ grounded: but were it to be extended to the use here proposed to be made of it, that ground has no application /would fail/. Mention anonymous evidence, the imagination transports itself immediately to quondum[?] Venice and the liar's mouths. But In Venice the system /course/ of penal procedure was secret, and therefore arbitrary, and justly /horrible[?]/ terrible to [...?]. towards that darkness a circumstance that could not be known was - in which of the two characters the evidence of this stamp would be employed - simply indicative or ultimate. In the character of ultimate evidence, for any thing that any body could be afraid of: a character in which it could not be made use of, without horrible injustice. If there be a country the judicial procedure of which contrasts more strongly than that of another with the judicial procedure of quondum Venice, it is that of existing England. In the character of indicative evidence, as a clue to evidence not anonymous instances of its having been employed in England by superiors for the discovery of misdemeanours on the part of subordinates in office have fallen under any view observation in more instances than are not infrequently office have been made known every here and there by the public newspapers. But to make use now and then of anonymous evidence of this sort is one thing: to make officially known to all concerned that on every occasion attention will be regularly paid to it, is another. Abuses of no inconsiderable magnitude have abounded time out of mind in certain offices: the bringing to light some of these abuses was the object of the correspondence held by authority with anonymous informants in three scattered instances. The object of this correspondence was to obtain grounds for punishments to punish abuses which had the determination to listen to such information been <...> and intentions[?] would probably never have existed.
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Title: [4 Oct 1803 Evidence Judicature]Description: 4 Oct 1803 Evidence Judicature Anonymous The case of extortion may serve to exemplify more particularly /particularise and fix the idea of/ the utility that in that view may be derived from anonymous indication. When a suitor understands that under the name for a present, a compliment, or any other appellation under the sail[?] of which the dream of extortion may have veiled it [...?], a recompense not due by law is expected and that without it his business may either be delayed or miscarry altogether the demand must be exorbitant indeed, if supposing information necessary, the preferableness of compliance[?] to compliment[?] be not absolutely prescribed by prudence. But suppose compliment paid, and an anonymous indication /suggestion/ given by the suitor to this effect. Say to such a Clerk - give in a list of all the fus[?] for presents you have received between such a day and such a day from amy one: if any one article be omitted, description shall be the consequence. If the present be confessed, the superior in office takes it from the extortioner, and by his own or some other hand restores it to the suitor in question, adding such punishment as may be fit, and the extortioner finds no determinate object on which to point his vengeance. If the receipt of the present be denied, it is then necessary for the suitor to come forward in order to substantiate the charge: but he has now nothing to fear since the power of oppression is at an end. The same disposition which led the superior to do justice to the anonymous informant, would have led him it may be said, to do the same justice and follow it up with effectual and permanent protection, had he come forward openly. It may be so: but how was the suitor do sufficiently <...>
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Title: [1818 Feb 9 Not Paul I. Argument]Description: 1818 Feb 9 Not Paul I. Argument Ch Motives to Conversion ยง Money &c craving Services &c received 7. Servant of rank /Member of the Cabinet/ remaining about the person of the Monarch at this time, one alone, viz. Luke: Luke, of whom under /by/ the stile and title of the beloved physician, mention has been /will be/ seen already made. 8. Person noted by name in the capacity /quality/ /character/ of an adversary Alexander the Coppersmith. Alexander the Coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works. If by Jesus revelations of any sort were really made to Paul, an imprecation to any such effect as this was hardly of the number. II. Tim iv. 14 II. Tim. iv. 9 to 22. 9. Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me. 10. For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. 11. only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. 12. And Tychicus, have I sent to Ephesus. 13. The cloke that I left at Troas, with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
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