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that by hands in a number exceeding the stipulated number of my prisoners
such earning, would in my prison and for my benefit, be made.

Never was Contract less open to any such imputation as that
of surprize. More than two years before it was presented in a definitive
shape, had the principle of it been under the consideration of Mr Pitt.
Upon the acceptance given to it by him as above, the papers were put
into the hands of Sir Evan Nepean then Secretary under Mr Dundas:
which papers he showed me, and among them I saw that letter of mine
in which it was first mentioned viz that of Jan Fiyge together
with a note or two on the subject between these two Ministers- mentioning
at the same time, a of Mr Dundas to Mr Pitt on the
subject of the intervening delay, viz, that is was a "a burning shame"
After Mr Pitt's receipt of that ultimate proposal of mine in March
1793, intervened the last length of time taken for consideration, viz
the time between the middle of that month and the close of July following.
When the authority at that time given to me for taking
my arrangements was given me by Mr Pitt, it was at that house
of mine which I still inhabit, at which, attended by Sir Evan Nepean,
myself, and my Brother, he had been employing some hours in
viewing together with the model of the proposed building, such of the
mechanical inventions as had at that time been brought to bear.

When a few days afterwards Mr Dundas asked me,
"whether I had taken my arrangements, and upon my answering
that on the doubt whether I had been sufficiently authorized, I had
as yet forborne to do so, kindly reproached me for not having done so,
it was at one of his Offices (the East India Contract Office) after he had,
attended in like manner by Sir Evan Nepean my brother and myself
been at my house, taking of every object the same view that had been
taken by Mr Pitt. Notwithstanding

Identifier: | JB/122/472/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	472	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	C1 / C2 / C3 / C4
Penner		Watermarks	JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	A. Levy
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	004
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