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£6,000 a year, or some such sum, which
I beg leave to decline accepting, would, I suppose,
be sufficient to procure me a site for a Villa,
not inferior to the so much envied one so highly prized
by the noble Earl, who neither intends it
for his own residence, nor, for want of certainty
of tenure, has it in his power to adapt it in
that quality forto the residence of others. But
what an annuity of £6,000 a year would not
purchase for me, were it all clear
gain, is that peace of mind and honest pride
which I must bid adieu to, were I to betray
my trust at the intent of accepting it, by sacrificing
in so essential a point the manifest
and acknowledged interests of the public service.

I say, acknowledged: for really, Sir, this about
the importance of the circumstance of vicinity
to the capital, as the great seat of inspection,
is not an opinion of my own starting: it is no
new-fangled conceipt of mine: it has been, without
any exception that I know of, the opinion of
every man who has turned his thoughts (and
great numbers of very respectable men have turned
their thoughts) to this part of the subject. It was the

Identifier: | JB/118/073/002 "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	073	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d15 f11 / d16 f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39127
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