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Lord Aucklandto Bentham
Eden Farm Jany 10th 1800
"Sir

"I return your papers with sincere thanks.
The Perusal of them has been both amusing &instructive
to me,& yet I did not want the aid of your acuteness
& abilities to enable me to see that the project in
question is a fallacy. The statement however both
in its original & corrected publication, carries
with it and air of such earnestness & right meaning,
that its author appears to me to have deceived
himself before he exerted his ingenuity to
deceive others -

"If the notes proposed to be issued
are to
be payable on demand, I do not see how they
differ from any other circulating Paper,
dependant partly on Confidence, & partly on a
lodged security - If they are not to be payable
on demand, it is evident that they
cannot obtain a circulation, & the project
of course will be abortive.

"I have reason to believe that there exists
no doubt in the Quarter to which your appear to

Identifier: | JB/009/021/005"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 9.
Date_1	1800-01-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings	annuity notes
Folio number	021	Info in main headings field	(copy)
Image	005	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	h & t
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 1491, vol. 6; also printed in stark, ii, 43	ID Number	3436301
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