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present Treaty be obliged, & the extent of his articles to keep them in pay, and in
employment, at an expence amounting ordinary rate of £2500 of upwards of £2000 per
annum, now lately reduce,
though by
inevitably considerably
reduced at the same time that his Manufactories, being
filled with the Machinery destined for the employment
of Convicts, are incapable of being applied to the
execution of any particular branch of work, from the
sale of which the reimbursement of the whole or any
part of such Expenditure could be obtained—
13.
Loss of the profit
that might
have been made
thereof, if applied
to the private
undertaking
sacrificed to
this public one—
That your Memorialist, by the unexpected
suspension of the Treaty aforesaid, at the time when
he had considered the same as brought to a —
conclusion, has for these fourteen months and upwards a twelve month been subjected
to the above mentioned unproductive expence, while the profits, whatever they may amount to, which
in the same period he might have Reaped therefrom,
by applying to Machines Engines constructed on the same
principle, the more advantageous power of a Steam
Engine, have been already lost
14.
Diminution
of the value of
the contract in
proportion to
this delay—
That the terms of the said existing Treaty,
to which no objection had ever been made on the
part of The Right Honorable Gentlemen aforesaid;
on any other ground than that of the said terms
appearing in some respects too burthensome to
your Memorialist, have, by the said delay which
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