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1825 Jany 28
Greece J.B. to the Senate Letter II. or perhaps Letter 4
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Letter II
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Sent soon after it is believed.
Jeremy Bentham to the Senate of Greece
Legislators
On the 25th of October last 1824
I had the pleasure to receive the two Letters with
which you were pleased to honour me: both, dated
from Napoli de Romana; the one, of the 11th August
1824 signed with under the signature of the Vice President of Chief Secretary
of the Senate, the other of the next day, with under the signature of The
Provisional Secretary General J. G. Rochos — according
to the translation with which I was favoured
by your three Deputies here.
The favourable mention which you are pleased to
make of such of my papers as you had then received,
fills me with shame and regret, at the thought of
the imperfect state in which I was obliged to send
send those fragments. My hope was that they might be prove
somewhat better than nothing: and it was in that
hope that I ventured to stake upon them by sending thus to put to hazard
to hazard by sending them thus stake any little reputation which
I may have may belong to me.
Since that time, to wit with by a letter dated
24 Sept. 1824 or thereabouts, I took the liberty of ventured to address to you together with an explanatory paper or two an Ordinance
in Spanish relates to the Tactics of the Assembly of Legislators
of the Republic of Buenos Ayres, in latin Spanish
America. one other For my part [+]
[+] for this liberty I
trusted to the accompanying
assurance given me by the illustrious Draughtsman that it had been framed
in uniformity to the principles developed in a work
of mine publish which in these 14 years has been before the public in French. in that
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