JB/108/003/001

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It had long ago occurred to the Authors of this theirProposal,
as a matter of considerable inconvenience just cause of regret, that
of the immense mass of interesting intelligence which
this flourishing and commercial kingdom enlightened and commercial nation affords,
so small a part should be within the reach of those
of any one of those the immense prodigious number of individuals to whom the possession of the
whole of it might be matter of constant an inexhaustible a nourishing source of convenience
and advantage of advantage to say nothing of amusement in an infinite a vast or
an infinity variety of shapes.

At the present instant period the

The number of London Papers alone alone is 38
equivalent in the course of the week to Daily papers 21 4/6

The number of Country Papers chiefly weekly is 73 69
equivalent in the course of the week to Daily papers 13 2/6

Total number 111 equivalent in the course of the week to Daily papers 34

Expence by the year at 4 1/2 per Paper £198:18-0.
Of this vast number, laying out of the case the stock taken
Of these in at Coffee houses it is seldom that more than one or two meets
the eye of those, whose purse is best able to support
the expence: and perhaps there is not a single constraint twenty instances
in the kingdom of a private house⊞ ⊞ that of the most opulent nobleman or merchant industrial not excepted, in which which affords its inhabitants access to a right to much as 1/20 a part
of the whole number. is taken in.

And if the expense were not out of the question, the very bulk of the
mass would⊞ ⊞ come in the instance of those who had a greater command of leisure, and the greatest inducement to employ it in this way to make this use of it be a sufficient bar to the acquisition of
so vast a body of information.

Identifier: | JB/108/003/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 108.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	108	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	003	Info in main headings field	index
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	35506
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