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My dear Bentham,

I can not tell you how much I am affected by the interest
which you take in our Genevan Penal Code, and how grateful I am for the
generous offer which you make me. It is beyond all that I should have ventured
to ask of you. It is very true that you must look upon this undertaking with a
paternal affection, since from its origin I have declared to our Commission
that all the work which I submitted to them was, not merely as to the place, but
in the details, extracted from your Manuscripts.

The conversation which I had with Mr. Koe and which he
has reported to you, has for its principal object to show him that what you
demanded of me was already virtually and implicitly done. I declared to
our penal Commission that I found myself stopped because there were in
your Manuscripts lacunae which I did not flatter myself that I should be
able to fill up — in particular; many articles omitted or incomplete under
the head of Offences against Condition — and nothing, absolutely nothing, under
the head of Offences against Justice — I said morever that there were many
questions on which I had consulted you, and that you in reply had invited me to

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	045	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [fleur-de-lys] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	3481
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