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Memorial

Another thing your Lordships may be perfectly
sure of is the certain hardship not to say the injustice to say no more
and oppression and that altogether irremediable which will be accumulating running on other
than whole
which your Lordships are waiting looking out
in expectation of an act which it is in nobody's
power to perform. While your Lordships sit waiting, not the fortune of your Memorialist, as
your Lordships have seen, is consuming, inevitably consuming, and all
at length sooner or later but long before he any land can has been
put into his hands, his means of making use
of it are gone.

As to compensation for the delay, be it less
longer or shorter, an adequate one
is impossible: since of eventual profits prevented,
however real and however considerable they would
have proved, no account could be taken for any
such purpose. The following items, however enormous,
wold fall enormously short of being adequate.
Reimbursement for what your Memorialist
is already in advance, £6000 and upwards
besides interest: for other materials and work bespoke
and prepare in hand, which he will soon be called upon to pay for, not
much less: for what it is costing him to keep his
sum together, £2,000 a year: and this leaves
his your


Identifier: | JB/118/027/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

37-38

Box

118

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

027

Info in main headings field

memorial

Image

003

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f61 / f62 / f63 / f63

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

draft of letter 988, vol. 5

ID Number

39081

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