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stipulated quality, the whole of which was, by the terms of the agreement
to have been allotted to the use of the Penitentiary Establishment, which
on that spot I was in expectation of being enabled to set on foot.

If, at that time, any such design was any where entertained as that of
laying the business aside, and giving me any thing in the shape of
money, in the name of compensation, nothing was ever more completely a secret
to me. At no time had the idea of being thus burdensome ever
produced in my mind any other feeling than that of aversion and
repugnance: at no time, either in writing or in conversation, had
any other feeling been expressed by me

When, in the year 1801 ⱡ, upon the resignation of Mr Pitt,
ⱡ 24 March 1801.
and the consequent change in the Ministry, and the winding up which
on that occasion took place in the business of the Treasury, not quite
+ §.4a year, after the notice given to <add> as above </add> me + by the Treasury, and the Duke of Portland (viz.
25 March 1800) to prepare for the reception of 2000 prisoners, as above,
intimation was given to me, viz. by letter from Mr Long || none
|| Mr Long to Mr Bentham 25 March 1801
of the then Secretaries to the Treasury, that it was in contemplation
to lay the plan in question aside, on giving me compensation - which
compensation, as declared in a correspondence, held on that subject
without my privity, between the Treasury and the Secretary of State's
Office, and afterwards laid before Parliament, || it was intended should
|| Treasury Proceedings printed by order of the H. of Commons 12 June 1801. pp 79, 80, 81.
be a "liberal" one - upon that Gentleman's going out of office, in company
with his official superiors, it seemed to me, that, without imputation
of impropriety, I might hold myself excused from returning any
answer and accordingly no answer was returned by me.

The pittance, which, without any design of mine, fell into
my hands, as above, I could do no otherwise than avail myself of,
as a necessary mans of preserving myself from indigence. But I know
of no degree of indigence that would have compelled me either
to offer to abandon, or, while the contrary was
in my power, ever to consent to abandon, the joint cause of the public
and

Identifier: | JB/122/526/002 "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	526	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	F77 / F78
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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