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1793.9.23
J.B. to Evan Nepean Esq. Not sent

23 Sept. 1793

Sir

I have seen Ld Spencer. He conceives the received me behaved with
the politeness which is natural to him, we parted as we
met good friends, but he conceives the
arrangement to be prejudicial to his interest, and
therefore, for which I am sure I do not pretend to
blame him, declines giving his concurrence. He
says whatever Parliament may think fit to do he
must submitt to, and his is perfectly well disposed
to submitt to, but does not conceive it to be incumbent
upon him to "volunteer" a conjoint co-operation to his own prejudice.
Whether his meaning is to give an
opposition I can p not pretend take upon me to say: no
express intimations of that hand were given: perhaps
he does not intend it: perhaps the case he does may be that
his politeness prevented his expressing his intentions
with the energy with which they were conceived.
I think Something was said I think though in a good humoured way and as it were in a parenthesis about Parliaments
hearing what he might have to say on the subject.
By way of argumentation ad hominum he
produced against me what I had said a passage in the
first Vol. of Panopticon in ridicule of the care
taken in the choice of pleasurable situation
for the purpose, and the price paid in consequence.
My answer was that what I wrote in on that
subject was written in Russia, written under a
mistake to the amount of the difference between
£27000and £6600 (not to mention that even
the place was mistaken) and that this under the
supposition

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Date_1	1793-09-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	469	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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