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Expence of keeping
Workmen together
£2500 a year -

That your Memorialist and his said Brother,
having by a concurrence of diligence and good fortune,
collected and formed a body of workmen in different
branches, such as if once dispersed, he could not for a
long time if ever hope fully to replace, is obliged, and
will during the pendency of the present treaty to be obliged,
to keep them in pay and in employment at
an expence of upwards of £2000 per annum, 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 a twelvemonth been subjected to the abovementioned
unproductive expence, while the profits,
whatever they may amount to, which in the same
period he might have reaped therefrom by applying
to 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 Honourable gentlemen aforesaid, or any other
ground than that of the said terms appearing in some



Identifier: | JB/118/114/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

10-17

Box

118

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

114

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / d6 / d7 / d8

Penner

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

see note to letter 988, vol. 5

ID Number

39168

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