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1820 Decr 3

I shall conclude with a consideration, which though
personal to myself the individual, may perhaps be found not wholly
beneath regard, nor devoid of interest to a
nation, to the service of which as has already since the revival of Spanish liberty devoted no small quantity of
by far the greatest part of his
time and is there
labouring for permission
to devote on the same
gratuitous terms what remains
to him of life. That
nations I have to deal with. My
own life may depend upon my the receipt or non-receipt
of the sort of the instrument, I thus stipulating for.
In this country By this government all three are openly devoted avowedly devoted to destruction who
presumes shall dare to advocate that system of popular representation
which you have established originated, and which after you
Naples and Portugal have adopted. Of this I should the victims
in the country amongst the forces of. For the exertions thus devoted he stands amongst the most prominent. In the little tract
which has already
been honoured with
the notice of the Cortes
Burdett, Cartwright,
and others are mentioned
as being at
that time for their
exertions in this cause
actually at that time
under prosecution.
They have since been
convicted; and the If any thing can
afford me advantage punishment is at this
moment hanging over
their heads.
in this cause be Burdett, Cartwright and others were
in that little little tract which is already known to be
mentioned as the already under prosecution. They together
with whom most of the current other leaders in that same cause have since already
been convicted. is , vengeance is insatiable.
Since the threat uttered by Lord
Castlereagh at one of the last sittings of the House of Commons
seventeen more I have just been informed been prosecutions, if the information I have
just received from competent authority does not deceive me, have just
been added to the list. Among those already convicted is a poor
man in the country, whose crime was the publishing in
a small work a small portion of what I myself had first published
in a large one. The very paragraph, there which in this very title I am now
hearing, is of itself a punishable crime. For by a recent
law every thi publication given to any thing which has so
much as a "tendency to bring the government into hatred and
"contempt" is a punishable crime: and by a recent decision
of those Judges, of whose decisions Common Law is made
the bare writing of any such thing is also a w punishable crime:
and if the publication or writing, of that which I have just been writing
has not a tendency
to bring into hatred
and contempt the
Government, if and concerning which
it is written, and so
truly written, what
else can have?

Identifier: | JB/013/141/001 "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	141	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d17 / e17
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2726, vol. 10	ID Number	4590
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