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prepared the only food the travellers had for their journey
except when they reached a town. Part of the supply Bentham
found so delicious that instead of consuming it, he brought it
as presents to his friends in England. It was a compound of
honey & apples of the consistency of a rusk – the apples of which
it was made having been brought from Kiev. The apprehension
of being stopped was constantly haunting Bentham, & the journey
was performed with perpetual trepidation until they passed
the Polish frontier – & divers discoveries of the mendacious
propensities of his Swedish companion did not add to his
comforts. Bentham was both cheated & robbed in his journey progress.
Bentham stopped at Warsaw, intending to pay
his respects to King Stanislaus, whose correspondent he had
been through Lind the king’s agent in England. But bashfulness
& gloominess interfered. He staid a week at Warsaw & saw
nobody. He called on the British minister & not finding him
at home did not repeat his visit.
At Berlin he was in somewhat better spirits
and made the acquaintance of Dr Brown, the King’s physician.
Brown was an idolater of Scott, the present Lord Eldon, whom
Bentham hated as much as it was possible to his benevolent nature
to hate, – considering him the mightiest & most mischievous of all
the opponents of law reform. Chemistry was a favourite study of
Bentham’s – In 1783 he had translated “Bergman’s Essay on the
Usefulness of Chemistry† † Murray 1783”, and he mustered up courage enough
to call on Klaproth, who was then living there in very
handsome style. So little was Bentham’s name or writings known
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