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1824 April 5
J.B. to Revadavia

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These letters suffice to shew him to be utterly unacquainted
with chemistry at any rate, not to speak of
new branches of art and science the possession of which would
be necessary to the due execution of divers works he speaks
of himself as being either executing or projecting. Should
he have failed in any of them, what I am now saying
will help you in accounting for it. On the other hand,
though ignorant in comparison of the general run of men
of his profession here, it does not follow but that he may
in the absence of better hands he may have
done you considerable service: in that case you are
too just wise and just, to treat him in any respect
the worse, for any thing you see here: indeed it is
no very uncommon thing for men's conduct to receive
considerable improvement from removal to a distant
scene.

As to the unintelligibility of that work of
mine, if it was the Propuesta del Codigo &c — the Spanish
translation of my Codification Proposals, what
so ever may be the case with the original, if in several
parts it was actually unintelligible the wonder would
not be great. From several quarters I have heard it
spoken of as full of misconceptions: the translator
himself — (a Spanish priest who goes here by the feigned
name of Alicate — W. B. Lawrence was sell acquainted
with him) spontaneously acknowledged its being so, maintaining
as the cause the degree of dispatch which
had been required of him.

Identifier: | JB/012/272/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1824-04-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	272	Info in main headings field	jb to rivadavia
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 3087, vol. 11	ID Number	4333
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