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1827 March 19
Guatemala J.B. to Del Valle Letter II

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As far as I have the means of forming a judgment
are within my reach, if by any body your confed
central America can be saved from being swallowed up
in the gulph of despotism (as I much fear Columbia
is already) it must be by you. If I had the gift of
miracles I would divide you into three persons: for instruction one
should go to the Anglo-American United States, one come
here to England, the other remain in that country in which,
as matters stand the entire seems so indispensably necessary
to the salvation of the Commonwealth

By the earliest opportunity, should my life be
long enough protracted, I hope to be favouring with
a text of whatever articles you will have reviewed from me
by the first dispatch as well as by this. I find
to my no small regret that it has taken little less than
five months for the papers last received from you to the city of Guatemala
reach to reach to the city of London.

Instead I send a copy of a letter I received in the
year 1823 from Rivadavia now President of the Buenos
Ayres Government. Between that time and the present he has passed
a considerable time in this country.[+]
[+] My failing memory
will not allow me to
be sure that I did not
send you a copy by
the first dispatch
For intellectual
aptitude, considering the length opportunities he has had
here and in France and his natural abilities I can
not conceive how he should have his equal in late Spanish
America: but for moral aptitude in addition
to intellectual you are in a manner my only hope.

Jeremy Bentham

Mr Del Valle
Commissioner for the formation
of a Civil Code for
Central America.

P.S. I inclose in manuscript
a duplicate I happen to have
of each one of those sections of
Ch. XII of my Constitutional Code, being the first of those of
those which relate to the
Judiciary Establishment.

Identifier: | JB/012/385/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1827-03-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	385	Info in main headings field	guatemala jb to del valle letter ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1826
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	4446
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