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£9000, if I include Interest. Of the fruit of this expenditure
some part would now be lost, 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 Brother's whole 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
Contract's 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's 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 another to be
alluded to on their 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

Identifier: | JB/117/098/003 "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	098	Info in main headings field
Image	003	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	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38715
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