JB/036/106/002

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1822. June 21. +
Junctiana Proposal
1
§. Mexico's Inducements.
1.
1. Mexico — sacrifices eventually requisite — inducements to compliance
§ — Inducements to the requisite concurrence on
the part of Mexico.

What, on this occasion, might naturally
enough occur to the Mexican Government, howsoever
constituted, is — that sooner or later, it will be
able to itself and for ever, the benefits, whatsoever
they may be, with which the accomplishment of
so great a work will naturally appear pregnant.

To this observation the following answers
present themselves.

1. The quantity of capital necessary can
not but be very great: at a venture, some millions
of pounds sterling may be stated as likely
to be requisite to be expended; the expenditure,
whatever it be, continuing for years, before any
returns can reasonably be expected. All this
while, whatsoever capital may, in any part of
Mexico, be in existence, will, for a long time, find
itself capable of being employed in other ways:
and this — not only at a greater rate of profit
than there could be any clear assurance of
from this source, but, without any such obligation,
as that of waiting, for an indefinite time, not
only for so much as a commencement of
mercantile profit, but even for so much as common
interest.

Were the Government thus to rely on its
own internal pecuniary strength for the execution of the enterprize
prize, the probability seems to be — that it would remain to the end of the present generation, always in
contemplation, never in existence.

That the requisite capital should be derived
from extraneous sources; and in large quantity,
antecedently to the commencement of the enterprize,
seems therefore to be altogether necessary.

But

Identifier: | JB/036/106/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	13-14
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a5 / b5 / d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11030
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