JB/169/178/004

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What concerns me to thinkreflect on is, that at any rate more
or less of the public money must? be given in away, and
in a certain sense for nothing, and even more of it, under the arrangement
to which I should gain the preference, than has been given at present.
Had no such su as £1000 been given to the
spurious inventor, I must confess I see no adequate justification
for giving any such sum to the real one: but one
such sum having been given unjustly (though with very pure
intentions and from any honourable motives, yet as it turns
out unjustly) another such sum or something equivalent seems absolutely separate
necessary to rectify the injustice. The forth expendituredisbursement of
To give the first £1000 was notfar from necessary to the promoting of the
object of the establishmentpurposes of the Board<add>institution in question:- the</add> was taken for the encouragement of Agriculture but to withhold the second, would
be to counteract them. The giving the first was an injury
done to the public by mistake: not the persisting in not
giving the second would be a much greater injury to
the public in another shape, as well as to a deserving
individual, on whose behalf, (whatever the apologist may
desire to will willing to suppose) , it could never have fallen to my share
to take up the pen in any other char capacity than that of
A Friend to Justice.

P.S. My views of the
matter having been grounded
solely on the admissions of the
apologists defenders of the Board
my address to the President must be
deferred till I have discovered Dr Anderson's Letter to him, referredmentioned only [+] [+] only, & without
indication
of the Paper
or the date
in the Letter
in your paper
of the th Sept
and Views

Identifier: | JB/169/178/004 "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	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	56998
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