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Mr Bentham's Plan for preventing Forgery of Paper Money. Foreign Forgeries. —

as is composed of the mere physical difficulty, would indeed remain
in force: but the danger of the attempt, if not taken away entirely,
(as in the case of an Enemy's Country) would at any rate be much
diminished. — The security of this immense mass of British property
would in so far be dependent upon the good will of a foreign state;
and upon the promptness, the vigilance, the efficiency, and the uprightness,
of the administration of penal justice in that state. —

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Superiority, even in this
case, of the obstructive
plan, over the plan of
secret marks. —

But howsoever the force of the impediment might be thus
diminished, it would not be altogether done away: and the power of the
physical impediment would remain untouched; and would be greater
and greater, the further the multiplication of requisite arts and the
degree of skill requisite to the exercise of each such art, were pushed. —
Divulgation too, though it might not be sufficient to draw down punishment
upon the head of the conspirators, might be sufficient to render
the conspiracy abortive. — Upon the whole therefore, though the security
afforded in this way could never perhaps be regarded as compleat, still,
in case of a well imagined plan of defence, the advantage derivable
from it might notwithstanding be amply sufficient to compensate for
the trouble: and it is in this case that the superiority of the obstructive
plan in comparison of the detective is particularly conspicuous. —

Identifier: | JB/003/356/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	2-4
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	356	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles	limits to compleat success - ii foreign forgeries
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1766
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