JB/013/075/001

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1820 Nov. 22-25

Letter Matter for a Letter proposed to be written
by Mr Bowring on behalf of Mr Bentham to Count
Toreno, Member of the Spanish Cortes, and employed
by him in a Letter (in Spanish) sent from Q.S.P. addressed
o Mr Bowring's Agent at Vitoria in Spain, Don Adam Weidman, 28 Novr. 1820

Intertwining in relation to Mr Benth B. those sentiments
which you have so feelingly expressed, it can not be a matter
of indifference to you whether Spain, and through Spains
the world at large shall or shall not have the full benefit
of the such services as his talents and dispositions qualify this
him for rendering. Since I first mentioned him to you I
have become more and more intimate with him, and have
had a good deal of conversation with him on the subject.
He has no very favourable expectation Knowing nothing of the individuals,
judging merely from the nature of their situation
he entertains no & perceives, no very favourable expectation of the any Code
whether of penal or civil law that in the nature of the case came from the
hands of the Committee. Except from the hands of a single
and known individual neither public political probity
nor consistency he says can reasonably be expected.
The Committee is a Board: and a Board (he says) is
at once a service, and a machine for by which
single men are converted into double ones.⊞ ⊞ Unless on the Board
or Committee there
be some one will
strong enough to swallow
up all the rest
almost ay work
produced by it –
more particularly
any a work so a work
of such unexampled
magnitude in extent
as well as importance
as to any the
of all individual
responsibility, leaves
public opinion without
a determinate object
to fix upon, and that
affords to each and every one of them an effectual security against shame – and so in regard to prejudices. A The work
produced is a work of by it is always a compromise of compromises. Each brings with
him to the work to it his own particular interests and prejudices: those particular interests that are common to all
come therefore, of course to be adopted and sanctioned by
all: and, let those interests be ever so adverse to the
universal interest, the multitude joined to the situation
of those who the co-operaters and confederates acting from such a situation carries
the measure proposed measure by the weight of its influence,
which the want absence of individual responsibility, which is as much
as

Identifier: | JB/013/075/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-11-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	letters to toreno
Folio number	075	Info in main headings field	for jb bowring to torreno
Image	001	Titles	matter for the letter proposed to be written by mr bowring on behalf of mr bentham to count toreno, member of the spanish cortes
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2720, vol. 10	ID Number	4524
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