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28 Apr. 1813 +
Panopt. Compensation Claim (6) III. Contract
§§ 6. Contractors expected rate
(4) 13

Taken separately, these In the sums thus brought to view in the character of elementary parts of the expected
profit, I conceive can not, I must confess, so long as they are considered one by one, concur how there
should be any thing capable of producing in any judicious
mind a judgment of disbelief, or so much as an of surprize.
But when they are
put brought together and
by the successive application of
of so two such large a multipliers
as that those which
out of all dispute, belong as
will now above be seen to the present
case, made up into an a
then it is that
annual total, there it is that
the imagination
may at will, upon a first glance
be but too apt to be
started make a start and, though
without any assignable
ground, call upon the
judgment to retract
in the deciding pronouncing upon
the which the jud
deciding decrees
which it finds itself
unable to withhold
when considering the
several parts.
which it could not the approbation which
avoid pronouncing it found had found
no assurances of itself unable to refuse
the several to any
one of the elementary
component parts when separately
considered.

Two and sixpence a day per head each per working day being thus the fee for the being
for each working day, being the expected rate of average profit, remains to be computed
the number of working days. For this purpose, days in
the year being 365, whereof 52 Sundays, for holidays and
sick (some 3 or 4) and sick days allow the other 13.
Remains therefore 300 for the neat number of working
days: Three hundred shillings 2s 6d multiplied by 300
gives per annum £37: 10s per head. This multiplied
by the thousand gives number of the prisoners, viz. 1000, gives per head per annum d £37,500:0.0

£37,5 Multiplied by the common multiplier above-mentioned
viz. 24 1/2, expression of the number of years, £37,500 gives £918,750.

And is this Sir, then the sum you claim? Gentlemen my
answer has already been given in the negative. [In the affirmative
had I in thought of giving it, want in the possession of of common
sense at least if not of security might not without
reason have been expected suspected]

At the same time it seemed to me not amiss
that Gentlemen should see have before them some conception
of the nature extent of any expectations, and at the same time
of the grounds of them

They will at the same time have
with what truth I spoke when I took upon me myself to say
that if they as it were that they thought it right to
strike off from that sum any part of it, it would be no
loss to me. They may cut deeper and deeper still —
deeper a good deal — and still I shall never feel it.

If from this £918,750, the whole 25 per Cent should
be thought proper to be deducted as above, then, instead of
that sum the sum will be

Identifier: | JB/122/392/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1813-04-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	392	Info in main headings field	Panopt. Compensation Claim
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	C6 / E13
Penner		Watermarks	JOHN DICKINSON & C<…> 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	A. Levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	001
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