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1826 Sept. 29
Review of HumphreyNot employed

I can not take my leave of Mr Humphrey and his
book without some mention of Mr Peel. At present his sincerity the goodness
of his intentions I do not say in disproval, but what I must say
is – is problematical. When 1. To Jury-packing under the notice
of abolition abolishing it he has given legality and confirmation. 2. In regard
to the form of the rule of action his plan of it stops
at the point at which it has declared itself to stop will
be to all non lawyers be compleatly useless: to the people not reading it
makes more accessible than it is at present. To the lawyers tribe
fraternity of lawyers and those alone useful, as providing jobs for some of them
and lightning labour for the accommodation of all: while
consolidation without homologous codification is what is professed,
and in so far the intention of codification disavowed.

Of the adoption of Mr Humphrey's plan scarcely altogether to an degree
be real property would be an effect – of procedure
adaptation of it to its professed end,
opposite would be another in that part of the field and then in others reduction of his rule of action
to an universally intelligible state would be a third.

For several months Mr Peel has had Mr H's work under
consideration: for some time to the of September August he
had begun to look at it. After the lapse of it of a sufficient portion
of time, in his conduct in relation to those three subjects
taken together the public will have a set of lists of intention
not to say of sincerity, as probative as any it could have
wished for.

In regard to packing his conduct in relation to this
subject a warning to which I have seen, for
saying the assurance that he will not be altogether unattentive, will be the
mere instruction, in as much as it will throw a brand the strongest
most instructive light on the value of a , the or get in and
appearance the greatest
that the people of this
country ever received
from the government of it.
I mean the liberty of the press.

Identifier: | JB/011/217/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826-09-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	217	Info in main headings field	review of humphreys
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"not employed" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	3914
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