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The correspondence which took place between Bentham &
Lord Auckland on the subject of his the stock Note X scheme

Bentham to Lord Auckland

Queens Square Place Westminster 6th January 1800...

My Lord,

I take the liberty, of submitting to your Lordship's notice, a short
Paper, with no other introduction or pretence, than the reception which a very voluminous
unpublish'd Work, (Panopticon) from the same quarter, was honored with in its day. —

Of the Paper in question, the direct object is, to save Mr. Pitt, (if practicable and
necessary) the expenditure of any more of his attention, on a project which assumes the having
occupied some share of it. —

A collateral object is — that it may be seen, whether a pen, that has given
birth to another plan, which might be in some danger of being confounded with that in
question, and which is nearly in a state to be submitted, has not been sufficiently on
its guard against the delusions to which the Ground stands so much exposed, and in
which that project took its rise. —

Another channel, which I am by no means unacquainted with (not to
speak of personal friends) would have been more regular: but it is because I am so well
acquainted with it, that I am unwilling to rely upon it exclusively, or in the first
instance: one danger amongst others being, lest the proper view of the subject should be
eclipsed, by the irrelative idea of some miserable personal interest, as being at the bottom
of

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Identifier: | JB/009/021/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
Date_1	1800-01-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings	annuity notes
Folio number	021	Info in main headings field	(copy)
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	h & t
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 1491, vol. 6; also printed in stark, ii, 43	ID Number	3436301
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