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of it. If this be good thrift in the name
of consistency and equality let them impose
a land-tax to the same amount and dispose
of the produce in the same manner.
What makes my anxiety the greater is
the uncertainty whether this project of plunder
without profit is not may not be still hovering over
this island. Lastly year this it was roundly
and positively asserted to in the Irish
H. of Commons as if upon personal knowledge to be determined upon in the
Cabinet here: and the administration being appealed
to would neither though they of course would not acknowledge would
not contradict it. It may be suspended Its
suspension hitherto may have recalled
from nothing more than a doubt whether
the nation were yet ripe, according to the
Irish phrase for this mode of enrichment:
as if there were a time when at which a
nation were ripe for plunder and waste
than at another. I am truly sorry I can
not find time to make one effort more
for the express purpose of stemming the
torrent of delusion in that channel. The straw I have
planted bestowed already for that purpose has
done something: what might not be hoped for, if
your -stick were added linked with to it?

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Folio number	174	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
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Notes public	letter 702, vol. 4	ID Number	56994
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