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I can not ask of government what it seems is evident that which⊞ ⊞ not on pecuniary considerations
only, but no
considerations of so much
higher import, it seems to me so evident
, says Mr Long
because
a share of whose interest it is
What concerns me
thus if it of yours. that Government ought
not to grant.
to me that for consideration not only for , so much not of then the pecuniary
interest Government ought not to grant. What
B. But, says Mr Long, leave that to us, whose
or this of yours, says Mr Long. business it is: what concern is it of yours?

With great submission
to that gentleman,⊞2 ⊞2 to whose candour
I really feel myself
much obliged, it is not possible to a man impossible to
a man to have public feelings, with being or ever having been or having ever though of beinga Member
of any Jacobinical society, or of any other popular
society, and yet at the same time without being in the pay of
government: my whole life, if I must confess it,
my whole life, obscure as it has been, has been
made up of such feelings. There is scarce that
nook or cranny in government that I have not
pried into in my time, in all every one with a wish, and
in some of late with a hope, that which now I am on
the point of foregoing, that of seeing economy, and that not
as a mere inactive spectator, of seeing improved
economy introduced into it. Yes, Sir if I may be allowed to say so, I felt for the
public, and that with still more responsibilities perhaps than I do not before all the honourable
gentleman had begun to feel for anything.⊞ ⊞ I will allow that here
here publication
without any dispute
as much public
zeal as he pleases
to assume profess express but I will
now allow him the
monopoly of it. This
is what I apprehended:
this is what I
expressed my
apprehension of from
the very first: this
comes of being a Contracting
Jailor.

Mr Nepean in the course of this negotiation,
Mr Nepean in observing my anxiety eagerness to take upon
me some burthen or to reject some benefit, has
in his good humoured way, more than once called me an odd
fellow, or told me I was mad. Sir, with equal
good humour towards a man whom I love and
whom everybody loves, permit me to maintain
against him and as well as all gainsayers that a man may
not only take up burthen but push back away back aside money,
and yet be in his sober senses. He has seen
yourself

Identifier: | JB/118/036/004 "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	036	Info in main headings field	to dundas
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f15 / f16 / f17 / f18
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39090
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