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dation. Once affectedestablished the communication might endure for ages.
Once covered up, the precise course of it might remain unknown
for ages. In aid of the all<add>these</add>physical safeguards, political ones Poliitical safeguards would naturally be applied.
in aid of the physical. A proposed attack on any of these
instruments of public security would be might and ought to be made punishable
as an attack upon Government and Justice.

As to secresy, my op nootios of the importance of it will Offer of Secresy in case of Orders from Government
be implicitly governed by your's. If I receive no commands
from you to the contrary within a week, I shall conceive myself
left at liberty to speak of it as of any thing else. But Mean time
with these ideas floating in my mind you will easily conceive
that I could not avoid giving you this trouble. Putting yourself
for a moment in my place, and conceiving the possible utility
of the contrivance, and the possible importance of secresy to the
full success of it, you will easily conceive that in the eventthe regret that would
have been in store for me in the event of its presenting itself hereafterof its being thought by the proper Judges to have promised fair
the proper Judges, as an instrument of <add>Ppublic</add>security that might have had it at the hour that it was seen to be appeared to be no longer practicable, it

Identifier: | JB/106/006/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1793-11-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings
Folio number	006	Info in main headings field	jeremy bentham esqr to evan nepean esqr under secretary of state
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	sir samuel bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	sir samuel bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34594
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