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viz. upon terms such as should not vary at all in substance,
and in language should vary no otherwise than by the substitution
of the real present value of the sum then agreed upon viz. £12
a head to that value which by the rise of prices is
become no longer real but nominal. Merely for illustration
let me take a certain sum for an uncertain and say
£20. Whether any such given sum (viz. £20.) money
of the present day 29 March 1811 would in the purchase of
articles such as are in question in the Contract go just as
far as, or not so far as, or further than, the £12. money of that day August
179 is a question is a question which there is not (I
suppose) a single gentleman in the Committee who
at this moment is not better qualified to give a precise
answer to, than at this time, after so many years during which
my endeavour was to keep as far as possible out of my thoughts
every thing that could bring into them so many painful
sensations, I can pretend to be.

Should it be pressed upon me and insisted upon
(which I hope it will not be) that at present and antecedently
to any Report made by the Committee I should set about
making the necessary enquiries and calculations this is a task
I should beg leave to decline, and for the following reasons.

For the purpose of determining the eligibility of the
plan any such translation of then present into now present
money could not afford the Committee any real information
beyond what they already have without it. Certum est
(says the law maxim) quod certum reddi potest: and if there
be any cases to which this maxim is reasonably and truly
applicable, surely to my humble apprehension at least,
this is of the number.

Identifier: | JB/117/338/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	338	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f4
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	letter 2106, vol. 8	ID Number	38955
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