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1820 Nov. 25
Bowring to Torreno

Morn. 17 Decr 1820 In a letter to Dumont, Geneva this
and the next page were copied, with the following Introduction.
"What follows was written by me J.B. by way of Introduction for a letter which
he wrote to a friend of his,
Count Torreno, a leading
Member of the Cortes."

That you may judge whether the sort of encouragement
he looks for is altogether unprecedented, and whether
he has not some there be any thing unreasonable in
his looking for it, I don't know whether I may not
get him to let me transcribe a letter of invitation be received
in the name of the Constituted authorities at Geneva
through Mr Dumont, as likewise had a letter from that Gentleman
received by him but a few days ago.

Upon my asking him whether he acknowledged the sort
of promise mentioned in it – and if so how it happens not
to have been yet fulfilled, he gave me this account of the
matter: that the territory of Geneva contains but 40,000 souls,
that of Great Britain and Ireland without reckoning dependencies,
more than four hundred times that number:⊞ ⊞ that London is nearer to him than Geneva is: that while he was
at work upon the a penal Code for Geneva the question of Parliamentary
Reform came upon the carpet, that he thought
to have despatched in a very short time all that he should
see reason to work upon that subject and that then at the end of which time he would
return to the service of Geneva – that he thought there were
several portions of the field of law as yet untouched that the Geneva Commission
ought to go upon and would intended accordingly
to go upon and that, at the rate at which they had down
to that time proceeded the preparation of the corresponding portion of law
would take up such a length of time as would leave
suffi to him a sufficient length of time for dispatching
his task while they were before they had dispatched theirs
and that as they advanced in their work he expected from
time to time at the hands of Mr Dumont notice of the progress
together with questions in relation to his own: that
he did not receive any such communication, that to hear
by accident that Mr Dumont had not well as himself set kept
aside

Identifier: | JB/013/081/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-11-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	letters to toreno
Folio number	081	Info in main headings field	bowring to toreno
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7 / e7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::letter 2720, vol. 10; "mon 17 decr 1820 in a letter to dumont, geneva this and the next page were copied…" [note in bentham's hand] [17 december 1820 was actually a sunday]]]	ID Number	4530
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