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way of appendix to my new edition the original
as well as a translation of that short passage
I am the more anxious to collect all the
force I can muster, in as far as I find
from the notesprinted debates as well as from private
intelligence that the project of reducing the
rate of interest in Ireland is not yet
given up: though this perseverance is hardly
consistentreconcilable with the account I receive from
the same quarter of the reception impression
made by in that country the Defence of Usury. Yet
the lowering the subjecting the rate of interest adds to the mischief
of the old established regimen
others of a new and
much more serious nature
to a further reduction by a new law is a
much more mischievous and less defensible
measure than the continuing of the restraint upon
the old fastring: and pregnant with mischief
of a different and independent nature. It would
be a tax upon moneyd men the owners of money much however
than ever was leased upon landit the proprietors
of land: with this circumstance to distinguish
it from all other taxes that instead of
being brought into the treasury for the public
service it is squandered made a present away in the instant
of collection by being made a present of
to the collectors in expectation of the good
they are to do the nation by the spending of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	174	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
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Notes public	letter 702, vol. 4	ID Number	56994
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