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2) as he may think fit for the purpose of counteracting
the opposition that the people on the spot who have the
execution in their hands might and certainly would
through intent and indolence be disposed to make to
any innovations. This article I insisted on as the sole
probable means of enabling the Engager to deal with
the people in whose hands the business is.

5.

House, fuel and Habitation & fuel free to the Engager
probably also travelling expences reckoned among the
other preparative ones.

An engagement upon such terms as these seems to
be highly advantageous considering the wretched state
the aeconomy is in. It would be so if legal contracts
were un- inviable infringible and the breach of
honourable ones attended with infamy: but the truth is
not so. The people whom I have in view to engage with are
perhaps the most honest to be found, as much so as possible
perhaps where one has so little motive to be so, but their
indolence is as great an obstacle as dishonesty. I have
spent 3 or 4 afternoons with the Baron playing at Billiards
with him to get 1/2 an hour to talk on a business he is
so much interested in: yet he is one of the good
economists. No body fresh from England
would be able to engage in any such business unless I were first

Identifier: | JB/539/357/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-06-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	357	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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