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1822 June 5
J.B. to General St Martin Protector of Peru

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Take the case of a man who is in any of those
situations to which without any the smallest particle of merit,
real or so much as supposed decoration of this as of every
other this as well as with in all other instruments of
factitious dignity are so universally in possession of being attached.
Let his service be ever so great and incontestable, to a reflecting
mind to whom all appropriate individual means of judging are wanting
these and general tables will be much
more likely to be regarded as the official causes of the decoration
than the particular cause which by the supposition was
the real one: and thus it is that in the case of a person
in these favoured situations this factitious and ever questionable
testimony of merit is much less adapted to the purpose of
valuable than the natural and appropriate
evidence, such as that alluded to above alluded to would be

Identifier: | JB/012/080/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1822-06-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	080	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	e16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2891, vol. 11	ID Number	4141
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