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Paper Mischief

I consider denounce the Country Bankers (a set of
men in number or at least in number of partnerships
between 2 and 300) as a set of men
who without the smallest particle of guilt moral blame
have for such a length of years been levying for
their own benefit a tax upon the many numerous classes a great part
of the community, and upon that part of all others
which is least able to endure such pressure – the
aged – the infirm – the fatherless and the widow:
upon whose those in whom in respect of their
rank ranks in life and habits and sentiments afforded
to that rank those ranks the demanded for expence presses
with a degree of urgency unknown to others: a set
of men who by from the exuberance of their opulence
have derived the means of imposing a tax on indigence:
and whose profit, abundant as it is has
been bears yet but a small proportion even
to the pecuniary amount of the loss by which it
has been purchased – the loss to those already but
too severely pinched and distressed classes.

I consider denounce them – till without the smallest
particle of blame – as usurpers in effect of another
attribute of Sovereignty – the right of coining
money, as practising on a vast superior scale – and
with perfect impunity and security and even
universal respect and applause – that sort of act practice which
in them is not High Treason – but which produces
to the actors a profit and to the rest of the community
a loss superior in degree, but sinister in effects, and mode of operation to that which is produced
by a species of forgery inaptly included in that name
formidable name.

Identifier: | JB/003/100/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	6-7
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	paper mischief
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1798 a<…>
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1510
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