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1827 March 31
J.B. to Peel.

Of all the persons with whom on this occasion you have
any intercourse, I am perhaps the only one whose interest it is pride is
such, that as makes it his interest it is his interest that the designs you have declared should have their declaredly
intended effect: which regard is in your estimation due
to advice thus circumstanced the event will show.

Now as to the value of the advice in according to the estimation
of persons men in your situation – always supposing your
intention wishes and endeavours to be in reality what they are in profession.

To the first Marquis of Lansdowne who before
he was Prime Minister had occupied under Pitt the first
the situation you occupy at present I many
years before you were born my works had rendered me
an a declared object not merely of admiration but of veneration.

I have a letter somewhere in which he compares
advice received f by him from me to advice
received by the James the first; Duke of Buckingham from
Lord Bacon

In the year 179 Years before you were born it
was in 1790 or 1791, he took from me in an above stairs room on his shoulders
a packet containing a hundred copies of that work of
mine of which you have a copy to the French Ambassador
Bathelemy, who transmitted them to the Duc de la Rochefoucault
who moved the translation of them for the use of the
Legislature but was out voted by the Abbé Juges.⊞ ⊞ It was Years before you were
born when Prince
Tallyrand came to the
the Ambassador from
the French Republic
came to this House of
mine with an invitation
from the Municipality of
Paris to visit that Metropolis
for the purpose of setting up
a Penitentiary
establishment upon my Panopticon
plan: and an invitation from the Duc de la Rochefoucault to make his home my home for the 6 months which according to his calculation would
be sufficient.

If in existence you were in your infancy (I do
not at this moment recollect the exact time) when Pitt the second
with the declared intention design of putting all the prisoners of
the country into my hands gave his acceptance to my Panopticon
proposal as above: and two years got denied an Act of Parliament,
which after at the end of a period longer than that of the
siege of Troy, George the third in a secret veto crushed. The
wrath of the Monarch had been kindled against me by that same work of
mine on the Judicial Establishment and by a controversy I had with him
yes with him in a Newspaper on the occasion of a the endeavours⊞
⊞ he had been using to engage this country as he had already engaged Sweden in the unprovoked war upon Russia, which danger was unknown
even to my friend Lord till I developed it was above, and from Diplomatic Documents demonstrated it.

Identifier: | JB/011/270/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1827-03-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	270	Info in main headings field	jb to peel
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	3967
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