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Asand
Swindling

might have been the undersigning innocent
or at least excusable cause of raising an showing up
small share inconsiderable some degree share of national discontent against
a minister altogether undeserving of it.⊞ ⊞ They sell not only places of profit stations, but places offices of high trust the command of ships: in short any kind of moonshine that a man will buy. [and
of doing more mischief than I would choose to
have to reproach myself with.]⊞

If this information should happen to
be thought worth attending to, a sheet
of paper or thereabouts would contain as
much more as I know about the matter.
The misfortune is that as not a no money
has been taken in either of the instances to which I allude, there would be no means
I doubt of⊞ ⊞ punishing them in an adequate degree upon the statute which makes it felony an offence punishable by hard labour to obtain money upon false pretences. They might be punished perhaps even for what is past by an a civil action, or an ordinary indictment; but inflicting a punishment adequate
to the mischief. The only means I can think
of bringing them to undergo punishment for punishing them in the form method first mentioned would
be for your Ldship to employ a confidential
person who should appear to fall
into their snares, and be should suffer himself to be
cheated of such a sum as it should be
thought proper to lay out for that purpose.
No gr very capital sum I imagine would be necessary: for
they catch at small sums as well as great, pretending
economical disbursements to be no
& the like.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	049	Info in main headings field	asand
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 386, vol. 3; draft	ID Number	56869
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