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Lord Auckland to Bentham
Eden Farm Jany 10th 1800

"Sir

"I return your papers with sincere thanks.
The Perusal of them has been both amusing & instructive
to me, & yet I did not want the aid of your acuteness
& abilities to enable me to see that the project in
question is a fallacy. The statement however both
in its original & corrected publication, carries
with it an air of such earnestness & right meaning,
that its author appears to me to have deceived
himself before he exerted his ingenuity to
deceive others—

"If the notes proposed to be issued are to
be payable on demand, I do not see how they
differ from any other circulating Paper,
dependant partly on Confidence, & partly on a
lodged security—If they are not to be payable
on demand, it is evident that they
cannot obtain a circulation, & the project
of course will be abortive.

"I have reason to believe that there exists
no doubt in the Quarter to which your appear to

Identifier: | JB/009/021/005 "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	005	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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