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§.4. (5) +
1. Question 1. When, in relation to the Contract, the expectation
from Government failed, and the terms under the several Patents remained
as yet unexpired, how happened it that you never took the benefit
of any of these inventions, in the way originally intended?

For that you never did, is an averment included in the Statement
made by you, as above in the terms of the Act of Parliament,
as above

Answer. Never, till the passing of the above Act,
(Ao 1812) viz. long after the expiration of the latest of those patents,
has there been any determinate point of time, at which my expectation
from government can be said to have altogether failed.

+ Mr Long, Treasury
(speaking of a letter
I have received from the
+ D. of Portland
Secretary of State)
to J. Bentham Esq.
25 March 1800

So late as in March 1800 + I was called upon, as will be seen,
by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, after communication with
the Secretary of State, to make preparation for no fewer than
2000 prisoners, being double the number stipulated for in the
Contract. Mean time, as early as in the year 1796, my above mentioned
brother (having, by his attendance in England on this
business, lost the honourable and beneficial situation he held under
the Russian Government, viz. the command of a regiment of
2000 men conferred on him for very signal services rendered in
the defence of that Empire Ao 1789 against a Turkish invasion, together with
the most flattering prospects of ulterior promotion) my Brother, I
say, partly for immediately assured subsistence in a married state,
animated moreover by the prospect of services to an unbounded
amount which he entertained hopes of being permitted to render
to government and the public in his own country—hopes
which have not been altogether disappointed—consented to engage
in the service of Government here, in anew office
created for that purpose, viz. that of Inspector general of his
Majesty's Naval Works: from which period (1796) till a few weeks
ago, either in that office, or in the office of Commissioner of the Navy, every
moment of his time was devoted to that novel and most laborious duty: as
a list, which I have, of the services rendered by him in these his offices + will,
+ S.B. Statement of Services, as above

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	494	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	F13 / F14
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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