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1820 Sept. 10

Another near neighbour and probable companion
that my Now as to supposed Spanish pupils would have is a
young man of the name of Coulson – Walter Coulson. He came to me when he was aboutthe 15 <add>or 16 years old.</add> He lived with
me as amanuensis for about four or five years. He
was by this means qualified to become a Reporter for the Morning
Chronicle, which situation I procured for him. He is He is
now about four or five and twenty. He has his occasionally been of the number of the Edinburgh Reviewers.
He is now For three or four months he has been Editor of a daily Evening paper
called named The Traveller, and already the sale of it has tripled
under his management. The paper is favoured by the Whigs:
by but his principles are mine, and he introduces into his
paper as much of them as those such patrons will endure,
and as they can not act against their more fortunate rivals
without acting for the people, what he does in this way, is no
small matter. I need not say how he stands affected towards
the Spanish people. I am fitting up repairing for him an apartment
which not only opens out, my garden but belongs to it. His
paper is greatly and manifestly superior to the Morning Chronicle and
unless that paper into his hands (as it might do at the death or abdication of the present Propriety Perry) seems in a fair way to supersede it.

Another such intimate, is and in the same apartment
is an intimate friend of Coulson's – Henry Hunt. This
Hunt youth is Nephew to Leigh Hunt, principal manufacturer manager of
the weekly paper the Examiner, and Son to John Hunt who
is the other partner in it. Some Several of the articles in it had called
forth my admiration. I enquired who was the author: the
answer was Henry Hunt. The boy is but just eighteen: the
principal and most important part of his business is the making abstracts abridgements from
Reports of Parliamentary Debates, and other documents too long to be inserted
at length.

These were are not, were not ever, popular in in any direct way as the Spaniards would be, pupils of mine directly and professedly instructed in the art of legislation: for it
was necessary that all should live: and by skill in legislation, considered as having
for its object the greatest happiness of the greatest number – by skill in
legislation, though it were super human, if thus applied, no man here
could live. To myself, as from the first I was content it should – to myself as
far as concerned pecuniary
matters – it has been
no profit, all loss to myself,
as I was contented
it should, the art has
been all no profit, all loss.

Identifier: | JB/013/227/001 "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	227	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4 / d14 / e1 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 2689, vol. 10	ID Number	4676
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