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Hendon Wedny Aug. 20th 1794
As soon as you are returned to London, exhibit the light of your
countenance at Hendon. Pour passer le tems I have been amusing
myself with forming plans and making calculations about Luggage,
Ports: and the profits are enormous: Panopticon is a trifling business
to it. What is best, the trial would not be out of the reach of our faculties:
even those immediately at command: and as we have been prating to Sinclair
about it, and Sinclair hears prating in order to prate, I am apprehensive
of rascals starting up, and getting before hand with us.
We must have a patent: the post plan itself would be sufficient to
warrant one: but by way of dust for peoples eyes we will put in your
divided axle-tree carts, with some etcateras: though certainly it would
do with ordinary carts. To speak in round numbers the money spend between from
London to Edinburgh is £30,000 a year: expences in the Cart plan I do
not make much above £10,000: Capital requisite from about £1000,
to £4000, according to circumstances. Here would be £20,000 a year
gained, say £15,000: add from Edinburgh to London £15,000, or
say only £10,000 more. This would make £25,000 a year
for that Road alone. This I can assure goes on very sober: but come
and see — I have been collecting pies from Smith, who was a
Carter
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Jeremy Bentham |
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