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any that might accrue be the result of the contract for
the carrying on of that system separ capacity considered by
itself, but of the more much less problematical that might certain profit that may be expected
by to result in any case from the abovementioned system of inventions.
It would be a very poor degree of success indeed
that should do no more than enable the prisoners
with by the help of these mechanical assistances
to do the work upon an average the work that
would be done by an equal number of men
free hands, who in the neighbourhood of London cannot
be got for less than 1s 6d a day not for
hard work for less than two or three times that sum.
But 1s a day for the 1000 would produce
above £15,000 a year. Under these circumstances
I may leave it to your Lordship to
judge whether there be any great extravagance
in saying that the position I set out with, viz:
that the delay of a season may without any penalty
so called be productive of a detriment
more considerable that the payment of a penalty
of £5,000 were it ever so rigorously exacted.
The profit of new establishments of this nature
however considerable at the long run may it is true during the first season or even
for several seasons be le inconsiderable or even
negative: but this with regard to the present point
makes no difference: for the longer the commencement
is retarded, the longer the receipt of arrival of
the

Identifier: | JB/541/449/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	449	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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