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J.B. for Henderson to Gullet

This, however, imortant as it has has been to you,
and burthensome to him, has been but one out
a variety of businesses which have been theafforded
matter for subjects of a correspondence which has been
kept up I find with great regularity from the
beginning of last March was twelvemonth to
the present day: a correspondence of which the
advantage has been uniformly and exclusively
your own: the burthen and even the expence
as uniformly his. I have your letters before me in
files: the very posting of them is become an object.
In short during all this while you seem to have
been compleat master of his time and on more
than one occasion of his purse, without any thing
to distinguish his condition from that as a regular
agent of yours, exceptexcepting only the emolument and the title.

And now, Sir, at the close of this correspondence
what recompense do you propose to
make to themhim? ?
You, a man of immense wealth, sole proprietor
of a silver mine worth 256,000, or of
the money that has beenrealised by what has been sold from it: the sale of it: he, a
man whose sole patrimony consists in those rare & useful talents
by some of which he has been so serviceable to
you: involved all the while in the difficulties which


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Identifier: | JB/169/131/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

169

Main Headings

Folio number

131

Info in main headings field

jb for henderson to gullet

Image

001

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

56951

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