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1822 June 5
J.B. to St Martin

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6 June 1822

Jeremy Bentham to the Protector of Peru, sent through the
Liberator of Colombia. Extract for of submitted to the
at Bogota.

As a token of the opinions entertained on that this subject
by the in that most enlightened of nations, and of the impression
produced by the pamphlet I am submitting to you
here follows a copy of a text written to me by
Richard Rush Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States to this Government, and a Letter by John Adams
Smith Secretary of the Legation from those same States. Smith
is Nephew to the Secretary of State John Quincy Adams
and Grandson to the first earliest President of those States, who near
Boston in Massachusets is still alive. The two missives
were sent to me — both of them — spontaneously; no Letter from
me to either of them those functionaries having accompanied the copies sent

No 1. Mr Richard Bush to Mr Bentham Minister
Plenipotentiary &c of the United States to Jeremy Bentham.

Mr Bush presents his friendly & kind compliments
to Mr Bentham with many thanks for his valuable
pamphlet on the Spanish restrictive system.
Mr R. has read with equal interest & approbation the
great principles which it developes upon this subject.

March 22, 1821
51 Baker Str

No 2. Mr John Adams Smith Secretary of Legation under the
Minister Plenipotentiary &c of the United States, to Jeremy Bentham.

My dear Sir, I have read with infinite satisfaction
your observations on the restrictive & prohibitory commercial system
& thank you kindly for having sent me the pamphlet
& I could wish that it were possible to open the eyes of
the blind, to heal the sick & relieve the oppressed under
your liberal & generous ideas. With much esteem very 165
respectfully, I am yr: ob: Sect. J. Adams Smith
Jan. 1821

Each with us in England, these principles of universal equality at bottom
nation and nation so far as regards commerce have come at
by the length to be recognized by the Ministry, as appears by their
speeches in the published accounts of the Parliamentary Debates. In some degree they have Debates. But there has not
supposing them exchanged of them in practice.
were best begun to be applied to practice: how far their application will be
carried is a question, to which time can not yet have afforded suffic material sufficient for grounding an answer.

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Date_1	1822-06-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field	jb to sn martin
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e8
Penner	jeremy bentham; richard doane	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 2891, vol. 11	ID Number	4133
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