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bound to anything, be at liberty to give as much
as they thought advisable, on any one of them.

As to the fair real amount of this loss or anything
approaching to it, viz. the loss of the non-fulfillment of the Contract, it is a vast deal more
than were they ever so desirous, it would be in
their power to give.

But, though on this score they could not give
so much as would be justly due, or so much as, in so
far as it could be liquidated, would be given in a
question between individual and individual, it
is surely no reason why the injured individual
should receive nothing on this score.

Were the claim put simply and distinctly
upon the last item, in this case, suppose for
example they were convinced that £50,000
were really much less than the probable amount
of it during the two lives, an allowance to
this amount, inferior as by the supposition it
would be to what the individual ought to receive,
would however be so large a sum of public money
for Government to give – so large a sum to
sacrifice to the difference between the approved
and the rejected plan of management, – that shame
and apprehension would effectually prevent their
giving it.

As to the system of mechanical inventions,
that (it is to be remembered) was the
invention of General Bentham, who of course
would have had a large share in the profits of
the private establishment, and who accordingly
was by the Contract, to have had his life interest
in

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