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7 Aug. 1801

Observations continued

The extension of the plan to paying of public
Annuitants would in no case be practicable. How
could my Trustees convert Consols into Annuity Notes, and give
me authority to receive the annual interest, without, at the same
time giving me the Annuity Notes, which being payable to bearer
would be enable me to spend the principal?

to spend the principal?

Counter Observations

I repeat the proposition, to preserve the connection
between that and the demonstration. I am You The
demonstration I call it, for, if to serve in that character be not
the intention of it, then is the proposition a mere
crude assertion without proof. If the naked word of
the learned Baronet were to be taken in respect
of this the most important place part of the obnoxious
project, as well might he have proposed its being
taken as to the whole: and nor can I help is this the
thinking, that if such had actually been the course first time of its occurring to me, that a
taken by him, it would have been a rather thus short and easy, would not have been
were predicated on them that which less prudential than the more laborious troublesome course he has
pursued.

Throughout it appears to me that On more occasions than one it has appeared to
me – not to say on every occasion – that his assertion would have gained much in force, by
being disencumbered of his arguments. If what
we have seen he really meant for argument, and for
argument in support of the otherwise unsupported proposition
that

Identifier: | JB/003/481/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1	1801-08-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	003	Main Headings	annuity notes
Folio number	481	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	observations continued / counter observations
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f118
Penner		Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public		ID Number	1891
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