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1820 Decr

The Cortes has more pressing businesses be Cortes has we have shewn
The more reasonable the demand of the invitation the less rewarding will be the
deputation.

Will it be said why not wait for the pleasure of the
Cortes? The answer is obvious. The Cortes does not meet
to do business till the 1st of March, and by that time the
penal branch of the Code might be in considerable forwardness:
and in the mean time a Committee of the Cortes
has itself made I can not say what advance in this very sort
of work.⊞1 ⊞1 From first to last
shewing its too short existence
this eccentric
business may be kept excluded
by necessary indispensable business. In the very existence of the Cores there is
something singularly and I fear not very beneficially
fleeting. It have but two years to live from the first and this at the end
of that time its identity is compleatly destroyed:⊞2 ⊞2 not an atom of
its anterior preserved
in its subsequent body and doing its
life it is awake but one fourth, as or with interest.

The Cortes at any rate At any rate the existing Cortes dies
but one third part of its time,
is beyond redemption a short time hence. But, as with us so with you, the King, so our lawyers are so fond of saying, never dies.

But the Minister? – the without if not Sufficient are
as you acknowledge in the case of the paper money, why is he
not so, in your eyes, in the case of the Codes? The reason
has been already given. The Minister who bespeaks a
Code of me today, may be dead or out of place tomorrow.
And this in either case what becomes of my Code? By it be whence can there be
any assurance of its being presented to the Cortes? by whom will it be regarded can
the there be any assurance of its being so much as thought of?

I am upon the verge of 73: the current
of ideas has not in my mind the velocity it had once. I have need of
I want want a stimulus: I want encouragement. What That which a glass
of spirits is would be is to a man who works with his body, an
encouragement of this sort would be to me who have to
work with my mind. Without such an encouragement, I
scarcely think I know not whether I should be able to undertake enter upon such a work: without
it, I am quite sure I should with not execute either so
well or so promptly by a great deal or so promptly, as with the help of it.

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Date_1	1820-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	130	Info in main headings field	to colomb
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6 / e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2726, vol. 10	ID Number	4579
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