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1820 Nov. 27
Bowring to Torreno

Burdet only for expressing in strong terms his disapprobation of the
Manchester Massacre. But whatever in the eyes of the ruling
persons here, to whom your Constitution is an object of abhorrence,
may be the faults of Burdett, that of Bentham is
a hundred times as great. If Burdett has declaimed against
abuses in general terms, Bentham has developed them by
hundreds one by one. Is it possible that abuse in any shape
can be denounced without producing a "tendency to bring
"into hatred and contempt" the government that supports
them. But Then to do Doing has always been punished by
Judges without law in the name of Common Law, and is
now by express words of a late Statute law made punishable
by fine, imprisonment, banishment and no one
can say what besides. One A man has already been imprisoned
for publishing a passage out of Church of Englandism
examined &c (one of Mr Bentham's works) and in that single
work passages no less obnoxious might be found by hundreds.
Such is the state of insecurity in which he is closing
his days. But though nothing that could be done by any
person out of his own country could give him absolute security,
nothing could go so far towards it as the an
invitation of the sort in question coming to him in the name
of the King of Spain and when received made public of course in
all the Newspapers; the compliments in case of them
persecuting him the corruptionists would behold ready to pour down upon own their heads an additional stream of hatred and
contempt from the hands of all Europe.

After seeing what on that occasion is was said of Mr Bentham
by his Coadjutor Burdett, it might be a satisfaction to you to see what
on that same occasion is was said of him by their principal opponent Brougham.
This satisfaction I
may perhaps be enabled
to afford you by this or
another post.

Identifier: | JB/013/085/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-11-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	letters to toreno
Folio number	085	Info in main headings field	bowring to toreno
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11 / e11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2720, vol. 10	ID Number	4534
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