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1819 Dec.17

Note (a) ?
II Nature of the case
§.10 X Sponge no proof
Reasons against
Radicalism not dangerous

Sponge

or 1
Reasons against a Sponge.
1. Advantage none, Yes
if creditors were all foreigners
pecuniary advantage a
motive: countermotive none,
but the consequences of
the dishonestly Left to
Money lost to creditors
same as do gained
by debtors. But money
the suffering
by loss greater than
enjoyment by gain
Else no case for
preventing theft &c

1. Reasons against a National Sponge i.e. compleat
into insolvency in the part of government.

1. Upon the face of it it presents not any national advantage
in any shape, yes:if If the creditors were all of them, a
any very largethe greater proportion of these foreigners: for here would be pecuniary
advantage for a motive: for a countermotive
none but the dishonesty, and the attendant natural consequences of it.
Setting foreigners out of the question, on setting many against money, all that more in the
character of debts, would gain, men in the character of
creditors would lose. Considering Taking into the account the whole of the community
together, here then in money there would be no gain.
But money is of no value, otherwise than but as a means of happiness
paidHow as happiness there would be great less. For quantity
and quality being equal, and all other circumstances the
same suffering from less is always greater than enjoyment
from gain: otherwise there would be no preponderant
evil produced by theftdepredation in any shape nor reasonable cause for
presenting it.

2
2 Earliest sufferers those
to whom the sponge
has been said to be most
desirable. Particularly
manufacturers of goods
for operatedcustomers
Those whom all is
in the funds would
come to any
thing. The more
men had in the fund.
the more compleatly
they would be disabled
from purchasing any
thing buy said necessaries

2. The class Among those the proper who would suffer soonest
and most, would be all those by whom a change of this sortpreserve of that class of person by whom
in instances and be it what a change of the
sort has been considered or spoken of as desirable. Among
these, in an indefinitely large proportion perhaps
the greatest, are those by whom labour such goods are
manufactured b as have for their consumersconsumers and
purchasers in the possessors persons whom property is in this shape of ample fortunes existing in all
From this defalcation, though all labourers would suffer laboriousproportion for what does be for in inconsiderable part less to
in manufactures would suffer in the greatest degree: for among them the shape in question. But p those
productions are those which can be spared: Among the production course becoming of the measure in quantity the expend
in be for an
of husbandry where are those which consistently with life can notof the furnished to the manufacture
be spared. by the customers would proportion
necessary consequence. Those who together
them all would we hope be all to purchase anything those who
who in all shapes
retained property no
more than sufficient
to purchase necessaries
would by their loss
in this shape be disabled
for customers to be
purchasers of those

Identifier: | JB/137/138/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-12-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1, 2
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	138	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles	spunge
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4 / d6 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	46855
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