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1822 June 4
J.B. to Protector General St Martin Protector of Peru

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Think, Sir, of the once projected Order of Cincinnatus: if so it be that
you ever heard of it. In its origin — in its nature & it was
considerably a prodigious degree less bad than the is this same Order of the Sun, appears to be
By and comparison less bad the Order if any credit be to be given to the printed accounts just mentioned this[+]
[+] exemplification of
human weakness and
unthinking untaken, in
the not then as yet sufficiently
matured, and
purified minds of the in
purified
the American United
States
Yet, at this moment on the part of the projected founders of the
plausible but deceptive visitation, —
it such of them as are yet alive, it can not but be matter of sincere
self gratulation that except the makers of Letters
self gratulation, that it has been so compleatly sunk by the waters of
such as this, the
Letters — a lurking place from which, but for the purpose of
waters if Letters gave been
a warning such as this, it would not have been dragged.

Conferred by a single man — looked for at the hands
of a single man — whatever a toy of this sort what is it but a prominence
offered for every thing that is most base in the human character? for
cringing, for favours, for adulation[+]1
[+]1 for service
gratifying to the individual
but pernicious
to the community in
every imaginable
shape.
Be the design of it what it may, the effect at any rate, is
difficulty contestable design of it converting
of all ad the substituting to a selection of faithful
help-mates and sincere advisors, a promiscuous crowd, composed of blind instruments,
political prostitutes and shameless flatterers. How In the
nature of the case how it can be in any degree less mischievous?
A man's as towards the nation — the services rendered
by him to the nation — be they ever so eminent, ever so incontestable — what
chance for the obtaining of it ever can present itself to the
mind of any man, whose misfortune it is to regard himself
as being an object of the Sovereigns displeasure, or even
though it were but the being deficient in respect of the quantity degree of favour necessary?
necessary (I mean) to the purchase of a benefit in which so small a number of
men, and these so distinguished above all others are have been permitted
to share?

Sir — the greatest benefit which it is in the power of any ruler
to receive from any individual in the shape of this is
the benefit which I have been labouring and hoping to confer on
that which you and to you have . In acknowledgment
of this — in as a reward for this — would I the figure from
Peru the figure of the Sun to stick on my breast? As soon would I receive
a pair of breeches to wear upon my head.

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Identifier: | JB/012/076/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1822-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-7
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	076	Info in main headings field	jb to general sn martin protector of peru
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2891, vol. 11	ID Number	4137
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