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1820 Novr 25.
Bowring to Torreno

aside in pursuance of the more important object – the improvement
of the Constitutional Code: that in the meantime he (Mr B.) got
up his own plan of Constitutional reform adapted to England the
preparatory shape to which were brought forward by Sr in the
House of Commons by Sir Francis Burdett, with that sort of
success which every himself any body and to
himself as decidedly as any body had anticipated: the work
being intended not as a as any thing but a legacy and not as a that all that
time his energies were considerably damped by some unpleasant private
incidents, and a little with reference to the Geneva
microcosm in particular by the pertinacity of the resistance
made by some of the scholars of the old school
to conservatism which in his view were of cardinal importance.
One portion in particular of the field of law which
he thought might in the meantime be adjusted stocked at Geneva by materials
already furnished by himself was that which regarded
the subject of Evidence Probationary: a topic which is the
very vital part of judicial procedure. I mention this here
rather because the abominable state of tyranny under which
Spain has been want to groan, has in at his view of it for
one of its main causes the abominable state of that part
of the system of procedure which regards the share and re
stage in which evidence is received and the rules respecting
the admission and exclusion of Evidence. It is to
to have good law any further you have good judicature:
and no judicature can be good so long but in proportion as the rules
respecting Evidence are good. It was there has therefore been
an anxiously contemplated object with him to anxious desire on his part to see a
suitable address application from your Constituted authorities to Mr Dumont
to obtain from him an accelerated maturity for the
fruit of his labours on that part of the field of legislation: and
of the state they are in his late recent letter to Mr B. gives some
account.

Identifier: | JB/013/082/001 "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	082	Info in main headings field	bowring to toreno
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8 / e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	[[notes_public::letter 2720, vol. 10; "this for dumont" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	4531
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