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-lest scruple of asking, any more than of receiving,
the fullest indemnification. But that, Sir, with
submission, is quite different from the present case.
Damage, real damage, is to be created, created
by government Administration in the teeth of the decision of the
law, created, in order to avoid creating an alledged
damage, which the law had ordered to be created,
and which the 12 Judges have decided to be no
injury, I am to be a principal in crafting this
real damage, it is at my sollicitation that it is to
be created, and thus it is that the justice of an indemnification,
and of my claim to it is to arise.
First I am to create the damage: and then I am to
call for the indemnification. Sir, I can not do this,
indeed I can not. I can not ask of government that
which, not on pecuniary considerations only, but considerations
of so much higher import, it seems to me so
evident that government ought not to grant.

But, says Mr Long, leave that to us, whose business
it is
: what concern is it of yours? — With
great submission to that gentlemen, who whose candour
I really feel myself much obliged, it is not impossible
to a man to have public feelings, without being,
or ever having been, or ever having thought of
being, a member of any Jacobinical society, or of
any



Identifier: | JB/118/075/002
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Date_1

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Box

118

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

075

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d19 f15 / d20 f16

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

letter 988, vol. 5

ID Number

39129

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