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any other popular society, and 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 priced into in my time, in every each one
with a wish, and in some of late with a hope, which
now I am on the point of foregoing, 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 sensibility perhaps
than I do now, before the Honourable gentleman
had begun to feel for any thing. I will allow him
without any dispute as much public zeal as he
pleases to express, but I will not allow him the
monopoly of it. — This is what I apprehended: this is
what I expressed my apprehensions of from the very first: this comes
of being a contracting sailor.

Mr Nepean, in the course of this negotiation,
Mr Nepean is observing my eagerness to take upon
me such burthen or to reject some benefit
has, in the 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 every body loves, permitt

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	076	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d21 f17 / d22 f18
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39130
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