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taken away from me: and that if it were, I should as
certainly be at liberty to propose new terms, such
as might be sufficient to indemnify me for the
difference. My answer was, that with regard as with regard
to the to go to the service, to vicinity to the act seat of public inspection, I did not conceive
it proper for me to barter away for any
advantage Inducement to myself an advantage of such importance
of the public service: that with regard
to the vicinity to the market I was altogether incapable
of finding data whereon to ground fix
the question of the indeminifiction was to require:
and that moreover if in my conception any
calculation such demand would be ineffectual useless, since Administration
never would comply with it: they
ought not, therefore, I said I, they would not.

Mr Long – They ought not? – that surely is a
matter for them to judge of: if they should think
otherwise, what concern is that of yours?

Mr L Bentham – Certainly it is for them to judge of: and
if were I was already had it only heard to already apprized of this judgement and
that it was to that effect, any compensation that of any shape inference would
fall to the ground be at an end. But till I am apprized
of their such their judgment⊞ ⊞ the consideration of what in my humble conception they ought to do, is the only means I have of coming into conjecturing judging what they will do: I can only speak as to prohibition,
and probabilities such as they appear
to me. I have no other means of judging what they are

Identifier: | JB/118/030/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	030	Info in main headings field	to dundas
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39084
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