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and who is likely to succeed, or do's Succeed Prince Potemkin
in his Commands, & the Interest he had in the good
opinion of the Empress? who if the article may
be credited yt is in my Chemsford Chronicle of fry day
last, is receding from her supposed Enmity to the
French Revolution, & has disavowed her Minister's
conduct there — I beleive there is no room to doubt
of the Peace having been concluded between her &
the Turks, and that there is no reason to think there
will be any occasion for her being soon engaged in a
new war, with that or any other Power; if so, she
will have an opportunity of improving her Empire
& her Subjects by encouraging all the Arts of
Peace.

I am glad to hear from you that your
Machinery Projects are likely to succeed & turn out
agreable to your Expectations.

But I am much concerned to find you have
so many other Irons in the Fire, as to forming models
for the Panopticon & Philanthropic Societys, I
have no right to interfere in your employment
of your time, but I shod be very sorry to find
that you shod be drawn into the Expence of
Costs, Twedale will have no objection to be
employed in any thing that you or your Brother
will undertake to pay him for, & the Persons,
who ever they may be that interest themselves in
the Success of the Panoptican & Philanthropic
Plans will not, I dare say be backward in
Egging you on to make models &c so you will
do every thing or any thing of that kind at your
own Expence — This wod indeed be a piece of
Don Quixotism; which they may admire indeed
in every sense of the word; but I shod hope that
that Admiration will go no further than your Ingenuity,
and not to your Cost, which latter can do you
no real Credit; as it wod exceed the bounds of
Prudence & discretion & may possibly bring
distress upon yourself: if it shod happen, as I hope
it may, that I shod have no reason for these
suggestions, it will cost you, nothing, but the few
words I may have here thrown away upon the
subject; if I did not know so many instances of your
liberality, & inattention to your own pecuniary
advantage.

Identifier: | JB/541/313/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1792-01-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	313	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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