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10 May 1813 | 18
Panopt. Compensation Claim III. Contract
§.7. Other Rates
(1) 1 Observations

Observations

On the subject of the six abovementioned above last mentioned illustrative Rates of Profit,
and in the first place in relation to the three first, being
those which are deduced from American experience.
[+]1 [+]1 In relation to these
several Rates of Profit,
I shall take the liberty
of bringing to view such
Observations, whether
tending to the diminution
or to the encrease
of the amount of my claim
as appear present a
promise prospect of contributing
any thing to the ded
elucidation of the
subject: in regard
to such, of which the
tendency is to reducdiminish
the amount, looking
out for such as appear
most likely to present
themselves, and subjoining
to each such
answer as the nature of the case
appears to afford
Of these six , the three first lies open to the following
observations, to the following respect have in the following
observations may perhaps present themselves.

I. For Against the Claimant. At the time in question
the viz Ao 1796 rates wages of labour at Philadelphia (Year Ao 1796, and New
York, Years Ao 1801 and 1802 respectively, were higher than in London Ao 1793.
also on the other hand, the price of prisoners, less.

Answer. Not improbably. Without ever having made
any particular enquiry in shape as to this matter,
I should rather expect to find it so. But the difference
if any, on which ever side it be, would not be out
of the reach of calculation, if it were thought worth
while. to lay any shape upon that consideration

II. For the Claimant.
1. In these instances, no effective other any such assistance as
that which could have been afforded by the Claimants mechanical
inventions in que is altogether out of the case.

2. In these several instances, the management in
chief was in the hands of a set of public spirited men [+]2 [+]2 each of whom in
having other pursuits
of the profit seeking kind
bestowed upon the public
concern subject n such
parts only of his time
as he ca could bestow
without prejudice to
his principle pursuit
and who
for g for securing their utmost exertions in the service of profitable economy had no other incentive
than their public spirit than what it was in the power of the principle of public spirit to apply:whereas in the Claimants case
the pursuit occupation in question would have been his principal
one, as far as concerned pursuing profit his only one, and in
addition to that of public spirit, an article in respect of which he sees
no reason why he should be regarded as inferior to those
Americans, there would have been the ordinary incentive —
the mercantile incentive of pecuniary interest.

3 In regard to the Pennsylvania Prison Whatsoever was the scale on which the business was
conducted, i.e. whatsoever was the average number of the Prisoners, it
be evident enough that the scale on which the business of the Claimant
would
have been conducted
would evidently have been
much larger: and that with
the magnitude of the scale
the rate of profit encreases
is what nobody has any doubt of, (for this is the case always without exception all over the United States)

Identifier: | JB/122/413/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1813-05-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	413	Info in main headings field	Panopt. Compensation Claim
Image	001	Titles	Observations
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner		Watermarks	JOHN DICKINSON & C<…> 1809
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
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