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1820 Decr 3

Should then this idea obtain the requisite approbation
the wording which I would beg leave to submitt as suitable
to the occasion is what would be to this something
to the following effect ..... I have it on command from
his Majesty to express his desire that for the use of Spain, and for
the consideration of the Cortes, you will should proceed
to draw up, in so far as life and health may permitt, an all-comprehensive body of law commencing
at the penal code, and proceeding from there to the Civil
Code: his Majesty trusting that on the occasion of the
Civil Code you will take for your primary object the
preservation of the property upon in general upon whatever
footing, your such your work should at its appearance
find it established: keeping all regard for equality
as due and profit subordinate to the care of security, in conformity
to those principles which in that perspective should stand
so explicitly declared in our works .. and in
conclusion I should hope to find a declaration of his Majesty's
intention that whatsoever portions of such proposed law
shall have been received from me shall in proportion as they are
received be by his
Majesty's order
communicated to
the Cortes; who of
course will do
it by it in relation to what to them
shall appear most
advisable.

The Whatsoever be the determination in regard to these
clauses, should the invitation or commission in question
be sent, it may perhaps be decreed his Majesty's
further pleasure that communication of the document in question should be made of
it if such his Majesty's pleasure should be made to the Ministers of Portugal and Naples at his
Court: to the end that in the drawing up of the proposed
work the circumstances of all three countries may at
the same time be taken into account, that the solicitude of
his Majesty, for the felicity of those nations now so closely naturally and closely allied nations, may be manifested, and
an expectation the hope of an otherwise unlooked for
benefit may be diffused for the comfort and satisfaction of the people:
Ensure a benefit: for those⊞ ⊞ characters may I hope be ascribed to an all-comprehensive body of law prepared for them by an individual to whose a long exercised mind, with the
situation of which all sinister
interest is
incompatible, and of
which the individual
interest is as strongly
thoroughly identified with
the universal interest
common to all those
nations, as it is possible for any individual interest to be identified with any more extensive interest.

Identifier: | JB/013/139/001 "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	139	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d15 / e15
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	4588
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