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even in my own judgment, so wrong were you so much as not notice
it.

Meantime, in your giving me any sort of answer,
I see more difficulties than possibly you yourself see. Whatsoever
may be your plans of beneficence, in this my retreat
it is altogether impossible for me to know or judge to what a
degree the success accomplishment of them might be endangered by your
being known to have, even in this interventional and distant
way, any communication with me. Many a man,
who has long been seconding my designs, would no more
dare to mention my name with any mark of approbation,
than at Paris to exhibit a bust of Bonaparte. M.r H. for
ought I know, may be of the number: for, which the spirit
of my works, howsoever compressed by prudence, breathes
in every page of his, all this while taking the Quarterly Review Bookseller
for his publisher, he makes no more mention of me
than if I had never been in existence. This sort of terror
is in the nature of the case; and every man who has laboured
as I have done ought to be fully prepared to be the continual
object of it. Under such circumstances, an answer
in any shape would unavoidably amount to a certain
degree of confidence. Taking my chance for being believed,
I will tell you how, under the abovementioned impression,
I have dealt by the sort of confidence already reposed in me: —
a half confidence I must call it — for such and no more it
was — though even that was as much as the occasion required,
and

Identifier: | JB/011/203/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	203	Info in main headings field	jb to sec peel
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	w weatherley 1825
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr2
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1825
Notes public		ID Number	3900
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