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Answer
Query 6.

Match 1801

By the resignation of their Lordships (the event known before
the above Letter was penned) I was spared the trouble of referring
them it was rendered no longer necessary for me to
refer them to the subject of compensation to those expectations
declare to them my determination not to
refuse, in direct terms, my concurrence to a waste of perfect of waste
public money, for which neither reason, not, consistently
with truth, so much as a colour, ever had been nor could never be found.
Since that time, the composition of that Right Honourable
Board has undergone change after change, but a variety of changes. But, my
own ideas, as above expressed, respecting the propriety of compensation,
at the expense of those by whom the loss was
not occasioned, remaining unchanged, none of their Lordships
ever have been or ever will be, or were ever intended to be put by me to any
trouble on that score: not that I h at the same time
that I hold myself, whether bound or not, in readiness to concurr
at any time, if called upon, to do my part towards
carrying the plan in question into execution, upon any terms substantially the same agreeing in substance
with those originally agree offered concluded upon and
expressed in the above Draught.

For the seven long months in during which, as above, the
official personages in question had been labouring, in secret mysterious secrecy, in bringing
to maturity the plan of which the last quoted Letter
was the result, they had been figuring it has been seen, or affecting to figure to themselves, this
Mr Bentham at their feet, suing to them their "liberality" for such compensation
as the "loss" in money and time sustained by him might appear
" to them to deserve" Unless the misconception were obviated,
it I would might naturally enough be here be supposed, that the picture scene thus
drawn represented painted had found something in the conduct or letters, or conversation
of the Mr B supposed imagined suitor something to give a ground or at least a colour to warrant the
supposition that placed him in that character gave him that part to act. But it is
in the imagination of the painters, that the source of the picture and no where else, that the picture had its source.
would be found. In extending their liberality to him in the character of a suitor, they had
been all along reckoning from first to last been
reckoning without this host..

Identifier: | JB/122/221a/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-07-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	221a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 221.	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d19
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	41113
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