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made considerable progress in the drawing up a Penal Code intermitus
declasidly on the ground of my abovementioned work, with the additions
of some manuscripts of mine translated by Dumont. When after two years
spent in discussions, have been provisionally agreed upon was laid
before me by Dumont, their principal penner, with a request that I would furnish them with
matter for filling up the gaps which for want of such matter they had
been obliged to leave. My answer was in substance that this kind
kind of patchwork etc seemed to me not well adapted to the end in
view. Some 30 or 40 years had elapsed since my writing of
those papers: that if life and health permitted I would gladly draw
up for their consideration an entire Code: and the which offer was accepted
with alacrity. I have already done something towards it.
But the misfortune is that I can not sit down to it regularly
till I have fulfilled an engagement which takes up much of my
time than I had anticipated. It is that of drawing up under the
name of a Bill for Parliamentary Reform the essential parts of
a Constitutional Code for this country. I engaged in it with
solicitation by letter from Sir Francis Burdet who in
the House of Commons at the opening of the new Parliament is
to make endeavour at the introduction of it by a motion
the rejection of which with scarce any body to support it is
matter of certainty. The plain truth being that the Government
of this country is has by the system of corruption been rendered a
mere system of despotism, and that with nothing but more
form for a disguise to it, and for a lack to it nothing but mere
form for a disguise to it, and for a check to it nothing but Jury trial, and the
liberty of speech and writing both liberties exercised in the teeth of this Code,
of law and the existence of them at all times precarious. In
substance and even in forms the text is already pretty well
settled or the titles of the sections: a lot I elect at consists
only in the expention extension? to be given of the leading principles and the particular
reason for the several provisions: articles which under the
aggregate name of the Rationali I'll stand on every occasion, engaged
to add to the text. For the charm of its being found of use in the
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the occasion of y the Code which your Assembly will have to frame, I will use any endeavour to transmitt the whole to you as soon as printed, and possibly in the meantime that or that part.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 f5 / c6 f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [fleur de lys] 1818]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public	see note to letter 2719, vol. 10	ID Number	3441
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