JB/169/178/002

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reward had also kept pace with service.

If the Board persist in refusing to make the do anything
smallest of acknowledgement to him Dr Anderson whom they it knew
to be the real inventor, on the public will be in possession
of their notions maxims principles of remunerative remunerative justice, entertained by the one created as it
is already in possession of those the notions of those who profess call themselves
its friends. Justice consists in giving a double reward double reward
to a spurious inventor, and none at all to the real inventor nothing to the real one. who has got none. Economy consists in throwing away
the public money by thousands on pretence of buying as a
secret what is already known and practiced.

Grounding himself It is on the strength of principles
such as these that the apologist "boldly asserts
"as "his" opinion" that the Board it was "a hard bargain"
that the Board made with Mr Elkington, "and that it
"would have been more further to his own private advantage to have
"had nothing to do with them." – If this be the case,
and if it be has been no advantage to Mr Elkington the spurious inventor to receive the
£1,000, it would be no disadvantage to him to give it
back again: to give it back it for the benefit either of the public who has paid it for
nothing, or to those of the real inventor, to whom it ought to
be given, if to anybody.

Identifier: | JB/169/178/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1	1795-10-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	178	Info in main headings field	anderson and elkington lett. ii
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	56998
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