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§.2.+ §.4. Second branch of the damage - Loss of the profit,
expectable from the system of mechanical inventions.

For the purpose of forming whatsoever conception may, at this
time of day, be capable of being formed (lamentably inadequate it
will be at best) of this branch of my claim, it will be necessary
for the Arbitrators to peruse, in the first place, the account given of these
same inventions, in said by my Evidence, as delivered in June 1798,
to the Committee of Finance.

This done, it must be for them to judge, whether any such farther
light, as may appear desirable, promises to be thrown on the subject -
whether by a view of the several places at and near my present residence
in which these works were carried on; - by a view of specimens if any such
can now be found, of the several sorts of products therein produced
being the respective fruits of those several inventions; or by hearing, from persons,
who at the time in question were eye witnesses, such accounts as can
now be given, of the several operations, results as they were of these several
inventions; from the view of which, together with that of the above mentioned
specimens,the then First Minister, & the then Secretary of State
for the Home department, derived that conviction on the ground of
which they acted in and by the authority given to me as above:
& in the conviction of my capacity, in my quality of joint proprietor
of those inventions, to find, by means of them, profit-yielding
employment, to an unlimited amount: to an amount more than
sufficient, not only for the 1000 prisoners, for whom, during their
continuance in the state of prisoners, I stood bound, by the contract
in question, to find employment; but moreover, for any such number
of them as, in a state of freedom, might be desirous of accepting
such employment at my hands, in preference to other employments,
after their discharge.

Of the Members of the Committee to which that evidence
was delivered, by a considerable number - I never knew exactly
what number, every thing that is there stated respecting the nature
and products of those inventions had in some or all of the places
above mentioned, been seen with their own eyes: by the present Speaker,
Chairman of that Committee, and the Right Hon. R Pole Carew
certainly: by Mr Henry Thornton most probably: by him I remember
were put several, if not all of the questions, by which the answers
contained in that evidence were extracted: and as his intimate friend
Mr Wilberforce used to bring to my house to see the works, members
of both Houses, and other persons of note, in crowds: and Mr A. Thornton,

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	492	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	F9 / F10
Penner		Watermarks	JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	A. Levy
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	001
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