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2 May 1813 H +
Panopt. Compensation Claim III. Contract
§§.9. Set-offs
(4) J.B. repugnance
J.B. services
1. By Hulk price reduced
Disastrous indeed to me was that day on which I beheld
in the engagements taken by his Majestys Minister Government, a ground of confidence
whose use it remains to be seen whether in the Act of Parliament the word liberal
was meant for any other purpose had any other view than that of producing on the
part of the public a persuasion that th in the proceedings of Government the law of justice was not wholly held
altogether in disregard
S Under this pressure, affliction it will not be wondered at scarcely be worth of wonder
if I am should be found a cause of wonder nor I hope of disapprobation, that I should
be found anxious to look out for whatsoever exercises particulars
in the history of the business afford present themselves
as affording operating in any degree the means as serving of consolation
as affording to me to whatsoever amount the matter of consolation under the afflicting character
thus thrown forced
upon me.
21. [+] [+] 1. Reduction of
the Hulk price. So long ago as Jany 1791 the 10th Feby 1792, in my first address first detailed/accepted to
Mr Pitt being the as above second of my addresses to him Mr Pitt on the
subject to Mr Pitt I expressed my hope, that in the event of my supposing the offer in
offer not obtaining question not to obtain acceptance, it might still be not
altogether without its use with relation to the public service
be not altogether without its use: viz by enabling him to lower reduce the price at that time, paid for the
maintenance of convicts on board the Hulks. If I
my memory does not deceive me, a service to the
to the amount of one thousand of pounds to a year
was by thereupon actually rendered to the public by this means.
At the time of my giving in the above Proposal, by a according to two
contracts of which I have a copy copies # # Vouchers Nos 10, 11
Campbel with Treasury
10 March 1786:
Bradley with Treasury
10 March 1786. See
Mr Bentham to the
R. Hon. W. Pitt 23d
Jany 1791. No 3 and do
to do 10 Feb. 1792. No 3* the price paid to the
Contractor was 1s:1 1/2 per day per head = £18:5s 1 1/2
a year, besides the hire of the vessels, and as the a year besides £1625 a year for the and other expences Masters and by crews of the vessels, by the
Masters and crews of which service performed the function of Jailors was
performed: [+]1 {+] to which was likewise
added the unliquidated expence
of fitting the Vessels for
that purpose. If If I did not misconceive the If my information on this head did not deceive me was correct from time after the delivery giving
in presentation of that Proposal upon the renewal of the Contracts
for that purpose, the p relation to the Hulks a considerable abatement was
made in the price. Whether I myself saw the Contract
containing the such reduced terms, or was only informed
of it in substance I do not now recollect: at any rate the cond for
the effect in question, if any such was produced, I never heard
of any other cause. How the matter stands, might I should suppose, be exactly
be learned of at the Treasury, if at any time and to any
purpose it were at any time it were thought worth while [+]
[+] If at any time
any such reduction was
made, by the subsequent
depretiation of money, the
difference can scarcely
by this time have failed to be much more than replaced.
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