Editor’s Notepg 123Editor’s Note1045To Henry Dundas6 March 1795 (Aet 47)

Qn Sq. Place 6th March 1795

Mr Bentham requests the favour of Mr Dundas to submitt to Mr Pitt the following proposition. Let him fix a day, any day however distant, on or before which he will have done one or other of three things:—settled the business himself, turned it over to somebody else, or afforded Mr. B. a temporary supply of £2,000. The worst certainty is preferable to so ruinous an uncertainty as that under which Mr B has so long been labouring.