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of the trouble I am then giving you, the immediate cause is my
having perused (I should have said heard such is the state of my eyes)
in the Morning Chronicle of 26th Decr 1818 your speech to your Council
of State, announcing the or proposing the convocation of a Representative
Assembly. If the affections and emotions which it excited the measure
as well as proof may be considered as afforded by the length of
this address, under the joint lead pressure of the business and the informative
under which I believe above spoken of. But the strongest proof is yet to come. It is
the irksome task I have undertaken of hazarding the exposing myself
to your displeasure, rather than suppress some information
the receipt of which though it can scarcely feel to be more or less
may ultimately be of use to the great cause of which you are at
the head : sure I am that any rate, but for that hope, I never
should have been this troublesome by me at least it never would
have been upon you. In some letters which I have
seen, a gentleman an English Officer whose abilities are manifested upon those same
letters, and whose character, I am assured by those in whom I
have perfect confidence, represents speaks of himself of his having conversed
with you in Barcelona shortly before you were obliged
to evacuate that place. Spanish prisoners to the number of
At parting you went from him (he says) in the declared intention,
of putting to death with your own hand a large number
of Spaniards, then prisoners lying at your disposal in the
quality of prisoners. Before I close this I will endeavour
to procure the letter in question once more and copy the passage.
It is not yet in print: but it may be at any time, and the
writer being personally a stranger to me I can have an assurance
of being able to suppress it. We are all Although the By the newspaper Every body here is
heard in general terms of the shocking provocation you had received
For a man who never to whom it never happened to receive the
like nothing is more easy than to indulge himself in expressions
of condemnation, and to say no such retribution would have been
exercised by me. Think not therefore that I mean to obstruct upon
you any such impertinence. But
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Identifier: | JB/010/006/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1820-01-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	006	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7 f7
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	3442
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