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Mr Bentham to Edward Bell Esq., Pavée du Chartron Bordeaux
to be communicated to Edward Blaquiere Esq:

Queen's Square Place Westminster Tuesday Aug. 5 1820.

Sir

In pursuance of directions from Mr Blaquiere, I have, at different times within these three or
four months, in answer to letters of his to me, addressed to you several letters inserting in the corner
For Mr. Blaquiere or For E. Blaquiere Esq the mode of designating him as well as the hand
by which the direction was penned being occasionally varied by causes which there would be
no use in explaining. Having but too much reason to apprehend that one letter has failed
of reaching his hands. I take the liberty of addressing this letter to yourself, regarding this as
the surest and promptest mode of learning how the matter stands, and taking whatever chance
there may be of making the letter reach his hands, if it has not already, or at any rate of conveying
to him intimation of the failure.

The letter in question was put into the General Post offices here on the eleventh of
August by the careful hand of an eminent Merchant, a particular friend of mine. On
the eleventh or twelfth day after the day of the date at Bayonne, letters of his from that
place had reached me. Before me lies a letter of his dated August 22. No mention made of
that letter of mine which had he received he could not possibly have failed to mention. This
might be easily accounted for by the irregularities to which such conveyance is liable. But since
then I have received several letters from him, and no mention of that letter of mine in any one
of theirs: on the contrary, disappointment expressed from the not hearing from me: the date of the
last is as late as . I have not at this moment the letter by me. I think it is the 26. In neither
of two letters received from him by Mr Bowring since the 22 Aug is any allusion to it.

The letter in question (I mean mine to him of the 11<hi rend="underline">th</hi> of August) was on a
whole sheet of Bank Post paper; that I am now writing on is, I believe, a half sheet of that
same sort of paper. it was so folded as to contain 16 pages: the 16th was reserved for the direction: either
one or two others, I forget which, were I believe left in blank: the rest were written on in at
least two hands, of which what you see before you is was one. In another, and beyond comparison
fairer, written very small and close, were extracts from divers of your periodicals: namely Cobbett's
weekly paper, Wooler's Black Dwarf, and Carlile's Republican. Those from Cobbett and Wooler contained
every thing that had appeared in there on the subject of Spain or Naples from the arrival
of the first news of the change in Spain down to that time: so likewise those from the Republican,
with the exception of a sort of regular comment of the Editor's on the Spanish Constitution,
continued through six or seven numbers, and much too long for transcription. Antecedently to this,
there has been no instance of miscarriage: and such had been the fatigue and consumption of a time
which could so ill be spared, as well as my anxiety to convey to him with the utmost practicable
promptitude the information it had afforded, the letter was sent off without either copy having been
taken of it, or a memorandum made of its contents; indeed without so much as its having been
revised. A very brief intimation of a few of the particulars I will take the liberty of troubling
you with, this being my best chance for their being conveyed to him— Regret at the being in darkness
respecting his future Marcheroute. Regret at the not knowing to whom at Madrid any
letter of mine might henceforward be addressed— With— not altogether unaccompanied with hopes
that now that such a scene had opened at Naples and Sicily, he might find inducement to pay a
visit to a country so well known to him by former visits. For about these two years a monthly
periodical in Spanish entituled El Español Constitutional has been published here. "El Editor
"principal D. Pedro Pascasio Fernandez" "Agosto
— p. 157. In it is a report from Madrid in the words
following, in which I am mentioned. Se dice que las Cortes, despues de haber arreglado el sistema de Hacienda,
se emplearan inmediatamente en la formacion del Codigo Civil y Criminal, nombrando para
este objeto una comision de 12 Diputados los mas inteligentes y profundos en Legislacion— y que los proyectos
de nuestros codigos serán consultados con los primeros juristas de Inglaterra y Francia: — y aun se
añade que las Cortes convidaran al célebre Jurisconsulto Inglés, Mr Jeremias Bentham, por si le se digna
ir á España, para contribuir con sus vastos conocimientos á la grande obra de nuestra Legislacion.
No dudamos que esta sea la mas perfecta de la Europa, y que sirva de modelo aun á las Naciones
mas civilizadas.

complianed

Edward Bell Esq. Pavée du Chartron Bordeaux



Identifier: | JB/013/007/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.

Date_1

1820-09-05

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

013

Main Headings

rid yourselves of ultramaria

Folio number

007

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

john flowerdew colls

Watermarks

c wilmott 1819

Marginals

Paper Producer

andreas louriottis

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1819

Notes public

[[notes_public::letter 2684, vol. 10; "copy. mr bentham to edward bell esqr pavee du chartron bordeaux - to be communicated to edward blaquiere esqr" [note in bentham's hand]]]

ID Number

4456

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