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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



Identifier: | JB/010/045/001
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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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