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some more necessary a use, than the giving it out
in indemnifications for voluntary damage, might
be found for it. But if I am wrong in this, and
money must at any rate be given out to quiet matters,
the persons on whom it might be bestowed,
I should conceive, with most economy as well as
propriety, are, not myself, who am so perfectly
contented with the provision so long ago made by
the law, but rather the gentlemen who are discontented
with it. Were a number not more than
half a dozen of them, for example, picked out for
this purpose, and picked out with due selection, I
would venture to undertake, Sir, there would not
be a man left who would ever give you my
trouble. I say, with most economy: for though
I confess myself but indifferently qualified for
entering into their conception of the damage, yet
in their instance a douceur to rather less amount
than the supposed £6,000 a year or £100,000
capital, added to the unliquidated principal
money) which would in my instance prove ineffectual,
would, in the other instance, I should flatter
myself, suffice. As to the proportions, an equal
distribution, or if differences be admitted, a gradation

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	077	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d23 f19 / d24 f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39131
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