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Dear Bentham
I received your short letter last night. I am
much obliged to you for thinking of my wants. I should feel them more
if you had not already indulged me with the use of your edition
of the Statutes. I do not wish to relinquish my claim to keep it till
you want it yourself but notwithstanding that, if you really
have no way of disposing the copy you mention, I cannot refuse
to receive of what you so readily offer.

I have no news to send you. How
can you expect any before the Session of Parliament is fairly
. On Monday we expect a motion from Fox or some of
his friends relative to the conduct of the High bailiff of Westminster.
Most people agree that his conduct is irregular in not making
a return of the two candidates who were highest on the
poll- but the great difficulty is what the House of Commons
ought to do to remedy this irregularity- whether they can call
the High bailiff to the bar & order him to make a return- or if they ought
to refer it a committee under Grenville's act to determine what he
ought to have done & what he ought now to do. Some think
that as his power expired on the day the writ was returnable
& no return being then made the House can only declare
the election void & order a new writ to be issued. Whatever
turn it may take it is expected to be a popular
opposition & I suppose we shall hear of it as often as they
possibly can introduce it.

It is reported that Pitt means to wheal Mr Burke's act, or at least
some part of it in order to restore the board of Trade.

Sr. James Lowther has been exceedingly offended that Lord Abergavenny
was made an Earl before him, because the daughter of

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Date_1	1784-05-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
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Penner	james trail	Watermarks	w<…>
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 499, vol. 3; also printed, with short omissions at the beginning and end in bowring, x, 135, but there misdated 22 january	ID Number	3306
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