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prospect of of operation to such sort of machines as
would be capable of being worked by human labour.
That your Memorialist and his said Brother
have already expended upwards of £6,000
in the prosecution of his said inventions the whole of which
the whole of which expenditure has either been
incurred with a view in the first instance to the employment of convicts
under the said treaty or else transferred to that purpose from
its original distraction. to that purpose
That your Memorialists said Brother having
now for three years and upwards of three years in compliance with the said sollicitations absented
himself from the service of the said Empress
hath at length lost, his provision the provision made
employment command for him in that service of the being the command
in quality of Colonel of a Regiment of 2200 men consisting composed of two
Battallions of each of which the command of me either of which
would have been a situation of more advantage as well in point of pecuniary emolument as of authority than the command of a Regiment in his Majesty's service.
That your Memorialist and his said Brother
having with a by a concurrence of diligence and good fortune collected and
formed a body of workmen in different branches
such as if once dispersed he could now hope your not for a long time scarce if was fully
hopefully to replace, has been is obliged and will during the pendency
of the present treaty be obliged to keep them in
pay and in employment at an expence of upwards
of £2,000 per annum, at the same time
that his manufactories being filled with the machinery
destined for the employment of convicts are not are incapable
of being applied to any the execution of any particular
branch of work the labour from the sale of which the reimbursement
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