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1824 June 11

2. A word or two I will must already venture to submitt with to you, for a view
to the In securing and expediting the publication of my work on
Evidence by M. Dumont.

M. Dumont (you may know or not know) is a member, and the leading member of the
Committee of Legislation, a sworn which, in his little ant-hill, (number of
ants 40,000,) has for these two or three years been hard at work
in the endeavour to frame a Code upon the principles of my
works, as editted by him:⊞ ⊞ concerning which undertaking some further particulars will be before you on the arrival of my next packet. If there be anything of originality in any
of those of my works with which my friends in Portugal are more of
less acquainted, there is at least as much, in one with which they
cannot as yet have formed any acquaintance. I mean a work
on Evidence taking the matter upon on Evidence (– – Probations –): a work upon on in which the matter is taken up on the ground of first principles
and perusing it pursued thro' the smallest details .. I need scarce remind
you, Sir, that, in every judicial enquiry, the evidences, on which the decision
on the question of fact is grounded, are the very vitals
of the cause. An unfinished fragment, which is among those
works of mine which you have, and which was designed to
serve as a sort of preliminary abridgement, will suffice at any
time, to convey a conception of the complexion & character of the
whole. The accompanying paper, marked (A1.) will serve to shew
the state in which this work is, in respect of forwardness, in M. Dumont's
hands: the state of forwardness and at the same time
the state of vacillation. Now, suppose that in the his quality of leading
member of the Committee of Legislation of the⊞ ⊞ small indeed, but a no small degree distinguished Republic of Geneva,
M. Dumont were to receive, from the Regency of Portugal, a letter
urging him on to give what dispatch may be in his power to this
work; can there be any doubt of the success that this would attend the
application of such a stimulus? For such an address no such magnanimity
condescension, & self-abasement as that manifestation
towards your humber Servant would be necessary. Your said humble Servant
a nobody & an unofficed individual, and as such will ever remain. Though in Miniature As to Mr. Dumont MS though in miniature,
M. Dumont & he and his his colleagues are not only constituted, but extraordinarily
constituted, authorities.

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Date_1	1821-06-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	193	Info in main headings field	to carvalho
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2775, vol. 10	ID Number	4642
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