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1822 August — Duplicate intended to be sent by a vessel expected
to sail in the course of this month for Carthagena by favor of M. Lopez Mendez.
Jeremy Bentham Queen's Square Place Westminster to
Col Hall Colombia 17 May 1822.
Dear Sir,
The accompanying paper beginning "Codification Proposal"
will speak for itself.
Ever since you left this country I have felt an anxious desire, to follow
the thread of a history so interesting to me as your's. But that desire
has received very little satisfaction notwithstanding my enquiries
amongst our common friends in addition to the too rare & scanty
tho' happily always favorable scraps of information furnished now &
then by the public prints.
x: in addition to the abovementioned short paper of mine which I
send in English & Spanish, I have a confession to make, & along with
it to send an atonement, or what at least I beg & hope to hear has
been accepted as such. The confession is — my having made use, but I
hope not misuse of a paper you were kind enough to deposit with
me & if I did not misconceive you give me: I mean the manuscript
having for its title "the Politics of Upper Canada", & light such as that
seemed to me much too valuable & useful to be hid under a bushel.
After gratifying this & that individual with a sight of it, it seemed to
me that for giving the most extensive diffusion in my power to its
utility, I could do nothing better than by offering it to the Monthly Mag. It
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