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1820 Sept. 10
Emancipation Spanish J.B. to Mora

In the year 1808 I think it was that, through General Miranda after having for about
two years a year or two endeavoured to at it in vain for about two years through other channels, he obtained
my acquaintance. He was then, and till lately the continued to be,
one of the Edinburgh Reviewers. His desire to know me was produced by that
book which you had in contemplation to honour with a
translation. The principles of that every other writer, form the
soul of that history of Indostan. Since that time, will within these
two three years, he has passed he and his wife and children have
passed little less than half the years we have been or about half of every four five or six months in every year other in a house of mine in the country, in the character of guests.
His present house opens into the garden of my house, at at
the place from which this is dated: of my only house; far as
to the country, the my ever encreasing scantiness want of my time has opposed
a perpetual bar to any future visit to it. He is one
of the friends with whom my proposed pupils as above would
hold continual intercourse. I need scarce say how his affections
stand in regard to Spain.

If, before I am dead or superannuated, it be possible to
infuse into the East India rulers here the intell knowledge necessary
to their perception of the importance of a Code for British India
coupled with the energy necessary to the giving orders for it,
unless the influence of the King's Lawyers should produce his Veto to it,
the drawing of it will of course fall to my share.⊞1 ⊞1 Nothing can exceed the urgency of the demand. Nothing can
be more deplorable than the state of judicature society there:⊞ ⊞ particulars would <note> it can </del></note>
can be more deplorable than the state of society: to wit. The So thoroughly and convinced of this are the
Directors, that if they could accomplish the matter without personal
sacrifice, they would do what is attempt those things which are necessary for producing the taking the chance for reform,
and in particular amongst which are the encreasing encrease the number of judicial districts
and consequently in so far of Judges. But though except in the Judicatory of Appeal they give but one Judge
to a judicatory and in my opinion on my principles every additional one Judge is a
nuisance, yet so high are the salaries which for the benefit
of its patronage they to their Judges and all their other functionaries,
and so bare is the state of their finance finances, that they
can not bring themselves to do what is necessary to meliorate the
stock of their judicature, though it has been reported to them even by the
Judges themselves, that
the system of judicature
as it stands is worse
than so bad
that it produces more
oppression than it prevents.

Identifier: | JB/013/226/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	226	Info in main headings field	jb to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	jeremy bentham	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / d13
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 2689, vol. 10	ID Number	4675
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