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Tuesday night 47

Dear Bentham

You will think our criticisms pretty
numerous, severe & perhaps sometimes a little impertinent—
But the good parts require no observation &
civility is not always compatible with conciseness—
There is much excellent matter in these sheets and
often great happiness of expression — The separation of
the debate from the Vote, and the speaking without
order are so important that it seems impossible for a popular
assembly to get on at all without them, &
the omission of them is alone sufft to account for
the inutility of all former states in France — Every
thing relating to those subjects you have stated extremely
well — We had no idea before how much depended
on the mode of proceeding in public Assemblies.
It is a part of our Constitution equal in importance to
any, & hitherto unobserved — It is a great satisfaction
to find that it comes out so well on investigation.

The French seem to be much embarrassed not only
by their rage for instructions but also by the mode in
Which they are given, for the election is complicated with

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Date_1	1789-05-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	014	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	george wilson	Watermarks	j bigg
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 656, vol. 4; also printed, with a few errors, in bowring, x, 199-200; enclosures are now missing	ID Number	3315
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