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6 May 1813 +
Panopt. Compensation Claim §§. 4
(3)
Of that same Committee other Members in any
number may have been spectators of those same works without
any recollection or knowledge. For the purpose of being
out of the way of these and other interruptions, I used in those days
to pass a Great part perhaps, the greatest part of my time in studious solitude,
at a country lodging; and during such my absences
it was by my Brother that whatever was to be seen
was shewn. Sir Samuel Romilly, may though not then a member of the House may on
this same occasion be also mentioned: because, though
not then a Member of the House by reason of his our intimacy
with him it would naturally be in his way to
see more of the works than was his view the works
much more frequently than they were could have been
visited by any of the gentlemen above mentioned: [+] [+] and because, to
my Arbitrators any
recollection which he
may happen to have
in relation to this matter,
would be so easily
readily accessible.
As to the workmen who, to the number of between 20
and so and I known not how many more were employed in the work they are most
of them dead or dispersed. But from two of them, one
account in particular as could be desired could might to be obtainable.
obtained obtainable 1. The foreman, Mr John Lloyd, is now become has for
many years been a man of very considerable opulence and carries acquired by in the business which he
on the business in person of Master Milwright which he continues to carry on upon a very extensive
sit state in . . . . ..
2. Mr James Burr has for several a number of years
been in office in his Majesty's Dock Yard at Portsmouth + + Vouchers No 1
S. Bentham
Statement of Services
&c. p.160
where in the Mechanical works called the Wood Mills hehas continued to superintend the
which under the direction of my said Brother
were there set up — I know not how many years ago — || || About 8 years ago. Sir
S.B. Statement of
Services, p.140
To carry on on ac he has, all along been, and continues to be employed in carrying on fo on account and, to the great
benefit of government a multitude of mechanical processes, which in a considerable,
though I know not what proportion, even of the number of the
patent
patent numbers here
in question, and in
which some of the identical
engines and instruments
employed at my
House as above ǂ, ǂ ib 160. all continue
(I have been told)
to be employed.
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