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To be explicit, as far as concerns prices and expences,
and pecuniary means and resources of all sorts, I must beg leave
once for all to declare entering into any particulars beyond
what are contained in the Contract that was agreed
on. Of the consequence of the discussions which
any such a specification would bring in, I am not altogether
without experience. A special good at bargain you
have made are making for yourself says one: – You will It will never
do, you will ruin yourself – it can't be due for the money:
you will ruin yourself: says another. Such was the language I used to be continually
hearing in conversation among friends, to apply this
to the case of a Committee of Parliament composed consisting suppose
of twenty a score of Numbers. By To By a majority out of the one half score
the price might appear oris be deemed excessive, and such that, in that account
the Contractought reported fit to be set aside: by the a majority out of the other half score the⊞ ⊞ some the same prices sums are deemed deficient, and so deficient as to shew the undertaking to be half score, so deficient as to
render the in undertaking to be which business impracticable, and such that
on that account the Contract ought to be set aside. In the case of each
Member as in the case of any individual taken taken the Chimes are as to in that
the quantum will not exactly quadrule with his news of what it ought to be.

In setting the terms of the contract with the Treasury
no such enquiries were ever ever made. I should not expect
to find hear that any any such enquiries had ever been made in any other
instance. If it had been said to me – after having been settled
with as you will have to be the terms to be will be to be examined into and
settled in anew by and with a Committee of Parliament
I would should immediately have declined the business. I
Competence being altogether out of doubt, I should not however
should not however expect to find that a Committee of Parliament in point of fact thought it so to
employ itself any such Committee had ever thought fit so to employ itself.
and ever been so employed In case of suspicion of fraud
or delinquency in any shape, yes: but that I flatter myself is not the present
case. The case delinquency as far as to the
the what might have been in cases of delinquency have not yet found

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	333	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 2106, vol. 8	ID Number	38950
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