JB/118/378/001

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Explanation relative to Amendments 4 and 5.

N.B. It will be difficult, it is supposed, to find
any tolerable colour for objecting to Amendments
4 and 5, as here proposed: the fact of the existence
of the system of inventions is stated in detail
in Mr. Bentham's above mentioned Examination
before the Finance Committee of 1797-8. See
Rep. 28 p.76 and can be proved by the most
ample and satisfactory evidence. In the event
"making preparations &c being the only words
in the Bill at all applicable to the purpose,
this item of loss, by which an establishment of
unexampled promise was nipped in the bud,
could not, it is apprehended, without some force
of construction, if at all, be considered as comprized:
and it much to be doubted, whether,
under words so narrow, an Arbitrator appointed
by the Treasury, would consider himself as
warranted in taking this item of loss into
account.

In Mr Bentham's losses three capital heads
of loss are included. 1. Loss by disadvantageous
sale of land of inheritance £512 a year:
part for the purpose of the private establishment
so sacrificed, but the greater part afterwards of
necessity, for the purpose of the intended public
establishment, after and in consequence of the
above transference.

2. Loss of the profit, that might have been expected
from

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