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and the prisoner, - of public economy and moral reformation - to which for
so long a course of years, I had been permitted to flatter myself with
the hope of rendering such essential service.

Even now that, by the strong hand of power, this hope has, in
conclusion, been taken from me, and with it, the slender and inadequate
resource just mentioned, never would a word, so hateful as this of compensation
had become to me, issued either from my pen or from my lips,
had it not been forced into them by the same irresistible hand - and
now of late, when, under the pressure of disappointment, & the
affliction produced by the contemplation of a course of occurrences,
of the nature of which a sense of propriety withholds me, on this
occasion, from giving any the most distant intimation, my readiness
to obtrude myself upon the public justice in that invidious character
has failed, as it should seem, of keeping pace with the expectations
and wishes of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, my reluctance
has been at once recorded and censured, by a minute made and transmitted
to me for the declared purpose of compulsory intimidation:+
+ Mr Secretary Wharton to Mr Bentham, 13 April 1813, inclosing a Treasury Minute
and never, I must confess, in the whole course of a life of 65 years,
did I ever sit down to any task, with more heaviness of heart, and
correspondent consciousness of inaptitude for the task, than that
which has accompanied the penning of the paper on which my
Arbitrators have now to decide.

Under this pressure, it will scarcely be a cause of wonder,
nor (I hope) of disapprobation, that I should be found anxious to look
out for whatsoever particulars, in the history of the business, present
themselves as affording to me, to whatsoever amount the matter
of consolation under the afflicting character thus forced upon me. -

1. Reduction of the Hulk price - So long ago as the
10th of February 1792, in my <hi rend="underline">first accepted address</hi> to Mr Pitt being,
as above the third second of my addresses to him Mr Pitt on the subject to Mr Pitt I expressed
my hope, that, supposing the offer in question not to obtain acceptance,

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	527	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	F79 / F80
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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