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14) §.4 (6) +
sufficiently declare.

Question 2. if, in regard to profit these inventions were so promising
how comes it, that, during the continuance of the abovementioned
patents, no advantage was made of them in some other way? -
for example by taking in partners, or by licences, empowering
other persons, to make application of this or that invention, each to
his own use?

Answer. To all such enterprizes the above mentioned
want of time opposed, from first to last, an insuperable obstacle.
No such advantage could be sought for but by advertisement.
From no such advertisement could any advantage be reaped, but by
negotiation and attendance: negotiation with persons applying
for that purpose, and attendance on them for the purpose of giving the
requisite explanations. Opposed, in every inch of his career, by persons
whose interests or prejudices, or both, were in some shape or other thwarted
by the execution of the duties attached to his newly established
office, there has been scarce a moment in which he has not been
ready to sink, under the labour and exertion attached to that exercise,
not a moment that he could share for business of any other kind.

Question 3. Since the expiration of the Patents, the specification
of the two principal one of them having been made public, so long
ago as in 1796 & 1799, + if the inventions were really susceptible of profitable
application, to any such degree as is above supposed, how
happened it that, since that time no other person has taken any of them
up, & turned them to account?

+ Date of Patent for
planing, 26 Novr 1791
date of publication in
Tillock's magazine,
1796.
Date of Patent for working
in Wood &c 23 April 1793:
Date of publication
viz. in Tillock, 1799

Answer. In the nature of the case, it will be
manifestly enough impossible, for me or any one else, to take upon
himself to state, with any particular and peremptory assurance,
what, in the case in question, were the considerations by which the
minds

Identifier: | JB/122/494/002 "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	494	Info in main headings field
Image	002	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	002
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