JB/087/146/002

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Rewarding

to extend this arrangement to the whole of the revenue.
altogether. This however on would be liable to one
objection which seems a very strong one. Instead
of not having a sufficient interest in the productiveness
of the revenue the go government council would have too
strong an interest: it would be screw'd up too high:
to get at for the sake of the golden eggs the hen would be
destroy'd. By the same means whereby the revenue
for a time at least wasere increased, the permanent
prosperity of the country might very naturally
be injured. When a man goes from
England to Hindustan his object is to make his
fortune in the country as fast as possible and come away from it.
leave the country after which from which time it would be a
matter of indifference to him if it were at the
bottom of the sea. Look Thus So unfortunate it has been often &
but too justly observed is the condition of a people
whose fate it is to be go ruled governed as they are by another
people whose habits and sentiments ways of life are so opposite
to their own.

A better standard therefore it should seem than the
revenue of the public revenue would be the national wealth
of the nation. But this it would perhaps be next to impossible to ascer-
-tain

Identifier: | JB/087/146/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	146	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27671
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