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+ 1822 May 31

To General Sr Martin

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But, in both the these points, this is exactly that which, supposing
the Supreme Director constantly one only among several in a
alone, and or it in a c in a minority, is impossible. This On this supposition,
(said I to myself) antecedently to this ultimate and
lasting remedy there must be a preparatory and temporary
one: and this preliminary can be no other than
a Dictatorship: for so can by this manner to save circumlocution, by this name may be denominated government, absolute in all
parti other particulars, limited in no other point but that
of duration.
.

"As to the General, as soon as ever matters in Peru
"have been settled, his determination (continued my informants) to be is — he visit this country,
not or in certain events, not improbably he might for an indefinite time
be the case, render it his residence. In his desire to see you and you
avail himself of any information you may feel benefit of your advice
disposed to give him, is indubitable, doubly . Such, Sir, is the assurance
that has been repeatedly conveyed to me: and for this same visit
of yours this or that particular time month has even been mentioned to me.

No evil can be so great, but that, on the supposition of
its excluding an evil still greater, supposing probability
on both sides being supposed taken into the account , I would scruple to be instrumental
in the production of it. On no occasion would I scruple
to give existence to a single- headed and temporary dispatch,
if necessary on the supposition of its being necessary and effectually conducive to the extinction of a many-headed and —
enduring and incorrigible system of misrules

As I say incorrigible. For, as to Chile, which I now even while the pen is
moving, information comes that affairs there have some time
or other, of themselves, put themselves into a state of mration:[+]
[+] Oppression peculation,
depredation, breach
of faith, denial of justice
are growing less flagrant
and less frequent:
prohibitions and restrictions
refusing to the
inhabitants comforts
and profits that otherwise would be within their reach, are becoming less extensive and less vexatious. Minds, to which liberal and enlightened forms of government were
unknown [+]
[+] unknown, are become somewhat less averse to the receiving
instruction of information from minds to which such forms are familiar.
foreigner is no longer regarded as wanting little of being synonymous to enemy.
inasmuch that in so far as a judgment can
be grounded in general assurances from persons in whom
till now hope was altogether faint, no such violent remedy
would at present be desirable in that country supposing it capable
of being applied. I mean an intermediate despotism: for as to a
ultimate as well as and immediately operating remedy, a representative democracy, the supreme operation power in the hands of the delegates of the people, the supreme
constitution power, consisting in the placing and displacing of the hands by which the supreme operation power
is assigned, then in this specific remedy, the only one in which political evil in any shape
can find a compleat and perpetual cure.

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Date_1	1822-05-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	066	Info in main headings field	to general sn martin
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2891, vol. 11	ID Number	4127
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