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advances under Circumstances of great difficulty and Inconvenience:
and it was in consequence of representations to the above effect that the interest
in question was made to me. In the mean time, Cast Iron works had been
ordered by me, for the frame of the intended Buildings, to the Amount of
several Thousand Pounds: of which order as much was excluded, as came to
within a hundred Pound of the neat produce of the nominal £2000 advanced
to me as above. My expenditure, over and above the £2000 received, does
not now amount to so litter as £9000 if I include Interest. Of the fruit
of this expenditure some part would now be list, although the Penitentiary
Establishment were at length to be set on Foot: and if it were not, almost
the whole. It is too late now to revert back to the Steam Engine. The
Capital which was to have set it agoing is gone: my Brothers time is
engrossed by his Official Situation, and at my time of Life and after
my experiences, it is too late for me to return to a Manufacturing
Speculation, into which no prospect of ordinary advantage would have
tempted me.

Question 2d. Do the advances you speak of make any and what difference
in the terms you expect? In the event of the Contracts being carried
into execution, or in the opposite event, do you expect any thing and what
by way of Indemnification on that score?

Answer. In circumstances such as mine it is natural enough, I
believe, for the Idea of Indemnification to present itself. But as often
as I have set myself to consider, in what Shape, by what Persons, and in
what manner it was to be brought about, the appearance of Feasibility
has seemed to desert it altogether. There was a time (if my Memory does
not deceive me) when the Idea of eventual Indemnification used now
and then to be alluded to, on the other side as a matter of course: But
this was long ago: and the damage which might at that time present itself
as lying within Compass has since received such an Increase, that its very
magnitude may by this time be considered as having formed a Bar to
Indemnification. An Issue which I have for some time been training
myself to the expectation of, is that "dispositions" will remain — that
"difficulties" will accumulate — that this will go on, till all recollections
are at an end — and that this execution and Indemnification for
non execution will glide away together.

After the difficulties I have found in obtaining attention for
measures

Identifier: | JB/117/095/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-06-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	examination of jeremy bentham esqr june 23rd 1798
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38712
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