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pretend to suppose that any concurrence on the part of individuals
could be looked upon as necessary. But with respect to the immediate
possession, which is the object of the liberty I have presumed
to take, we are altogether in the hands of your Lordship
and his Grace. Even here, were the public alone concerned, it
would be injustice to your Lordship's personal character, not less
than to your public and exalted station, to presume any thing
like hesitation on your part. But the fact is, and it would
be equally disingenuous and fruitless for me to attempt to
dissemble it, that between the interest of the public and my own personal
interest, there is on the present occasion (what I have studied to effect throughout) an inseperable connection:
insomuch that £ to avoid the prejudice that would result
from the delay, and to obtain the advantages that would accrue
from the gaining so much time, I may well be called upon,
and am perfectly well content to pay — for example to the amount
of four hundred pound — provided I would have possession before
the week were at an end: which sum being added to the originally

Identifier: | JB/541/398/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1793-08-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	398	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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