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The following extracts from letters from Lord Lansdowne name
considerable interest —

Exeter 3<hi rend="underline">rd January 1789
"Dear Mr Bentham
As long as you honor me with your
"friendship, you may treat the House to which I belong, with
"every freedom you think proper - It is a fruitful subject,
& I don't think it is in the power of your ingenuity to hit amiss.
"I am very glad to hear that you intend taking up the cause
"of the People in France — nothing can contribute so much
"to general humanity & civilization as for the individuals
"of one country to be interested for the prosperity of another
"I have long thought that the People have but one cause
"throughout the World - it is Sovereigns who have different
"interests - besides we owe it particularly to the French,
"for I take it, that the Constitutions of both Countries were
"very much the same 'till Cardinal Richelieu took the
"lead in one, and the Stuarts, happily for me, in the other.

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Date_1	1789-01-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	107	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
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Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[partial britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public	copy of letter 635, vol. 4; also partly printed in bowring x, 195	ID Number	3408
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