JB/115/110/003

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upon it. In the mean time having been repeatedly
called upon to "make his arrangements" he had accordingly
laid out thousands, upon the faith of the
original agreement as above stated.

It is now two years since every thing was agreed
upon, every thing in black and white, ready for signature,
had the consent of the Land-owners been forthcoming.
During all this time the benefit of General
Bentham's mechanical inventions, diverted at Mr Bentham's
instance from what would otherwise have been their application to this (of doing the work by the
labour of Convicts instead of the more advantageous
mode by steam) has been lost: one seventh of the
term of his patent has been consumed: workmen,
collected with great difficulty, have been kept in waiting
(without a possibility of making any thing saleable
of their work) at a great expence. No idea has
been ever entertained of making Mr Bentham
any sort of satisfaction for these losses. Such are
the circumstances under which Mr Ford (surely for
want of being sufficiently apprised of these) proposes
that Mr Bentham's Representatives should be
loaded with a new charge to the amount of £15,000.
As to arbitration, it is what Mr Bentham proposed
in regard to other points, and could have very
little apprehension from in regard to this, supposing the

Identifier: | JB/115/110/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	110	Info in main headings field	panopticon
Image	003	Titles	extract from mr ford's "observations upon a contract between the lords of the treasury and jer. bentham esq: for building a penitentiary house &c"
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ f2 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37485
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