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To the Letter Partizan's Letter Bentham thus replied

Letter III.
The Public Advertiser June 15th 1789.

Observations on a Ministerial Defence
of the Prussian Treaty, signed "A Partizan", and
inserted in the Public Advertiser of June 4th.

Text. Par: 1st.

"In several of the public papers, but particularly
in those called opposition papers, great pains, I observe,
have lately been taken to blame his Majesty's
Ministers, for having concluded the late treaty of
Defensive Alliance with the King of Prussia."

Observations on Par. 1.

I am heartily glad to find there is one party
amongst us whose eyes begin to open to the folly of
the plan of Continental politics we have been so
long pursuing; – better half open than perfectly closed.
I hope ere I have done, to open them a little wider. V – "Defensive Treaty": so pretends the title. The
whole tenor of our foreign politics for two years past,
and the very terms of Mr. Elliott's Declaration, so
lately delivered to Denmark, shews it to be offensive.

Text. Par 2d.

"The manner in which most of the authors of
those remarks have treated the subject, proves, that
the ardour of serving their party has led them far
beyond the sphere of their knowledge, and that
they are very little acquainted with the different
interests of the several powers of Europe, of
whose respective political situations, an exact
statement appeared in one of your Papers, some
time in the beginning of May."

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Date_1	1789-06-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	073	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	letter iii
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Notes public	bowring, x, 207ff	ID Number	3374
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