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1820 Dec. 3

Offering myself for the employment in question is offering
myself in a the quality of a servant to your King. With
us, when a servant man offers himself in the quality
of a servant, he is asked for testimonia which is
called his character, and never fails if he has it in
his power, never fails to come provided with one. The employment
I am looking for being a little out of the ordinary channel track,
it seemed to me that a character could any
such thing be found, could in the present instance, afford a
more particular promise of being of use. Something in this
way may be seen in various places in "Papers on
"Codification" one of the works, which, it was has been my ambition
to present be allowed to present to the Cortes, and of
the account of which at Madrid I have (just had the
satisfaction of receiving advice being informed.⊞ ⊞ The favourable
opinion conception which that equal Assembly
Code has so lately
been pleased to manifest
in relation to me
stands recorded in
your those Journals. But in almost every one of those instances
it is by a foreign hand that the "whatever" the testimonial, sent in it whatever
as it may be, has been given. I from From a man's own country, the supposing
a any such testimonial to be had, there are some circumstances
which on an occasion such as the present, render it in
a particular degree extraordinary and at the same time the
more valuable. A prophet, it is said we read it has been observed has no honour
in his own country: the same observation may be seen to apply
and even with no less force, to the occupation to which
I belong. On the one hand part, jealousies of all sorts, on the
other hand familiarity renders his chances less in his own
country than in any other. On this head I may therefore reckon
myself peculiarly fortunate. A man might be any number
of times better qualified than I can pretend to be, and
not be able to produce so good a character as the one which
an unlooked for combination of circumstances brought into existence
and which the present
occasion has just now
brought to my remembrances.
The

Identifier: | JB/013/127/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-12-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	127	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
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 2726, vol. 10	ID Number	4576
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