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1820 Sept. 10

One and more to help shew you the natural inexorableness, and the
service of the opposition with which not only the lawyer tribe but the rest
of the interest and it scarce preserve themselves from regarding a body of laws drawn for and consistently upon my principles.

I contemplation be
into Spanish

The work on Peines et des Recompenses which is the second of the
works published by Dumont. I ⊞1 ⊞1 Our friend
speaks of an eventual
intention instigation disposition on your part
to translate from my Dumonts
publication on
Peines and Recompenses,
the Chapter on Colonies.
Notwithstanding the
number of competitors
for the translation of
the preceding work in
three Volumes, I do
see no symptomof
its finding a translator for this
other work in two Volumes.
According to a published
speech Should it never be translated do so in
any language during my life time I should notat all wonder. The By the first Volume
which is that on Punishments – no little annoyance indeed would be afforded to
any body. But by that other Volume on Rewards, annoyance
would be afforded to almost almost every body that reads: to
every member of the corporation of the ruling and influential few. For, amongst
its objects is that of bringing to its minimum the quantum of
emolument, and at the same time to its maximum, the
quantity and value good quality of official service. When that work
came out, the Edinburgh Reviewers, Whigs as they were and are
found themselves under the necessity of taking some notice of it,
and that notic notice favourable. Romilly, who among
professional, parliamentary, and otherwise efficient men, was
at the head of the Whigs, – thus declined Chancellor if he had
lived and they came into office – and Romilly used to speak of himself
as my disciple, often as a sort of father, and he
and Dumont were as brothers.⊞2 ⊞2 Brougham, in constituting
Sir Frances Burdett in the H. of Commons on the
occasion of his bringing
forward my system scheme
of popular representation
spoke of me (so says the published Debate), as being
to Romilly the object of
"almost filial reverence". If
Thus it stands in the
Brougham was found to take
this published Reports I misrecollect not, Romilly
of the Debates. was present. N.B. Brougham
was found to take this speak against
by my volume to keep himself
in favour with the
Whigs. It was he Romilly who, without
my knowledge, wrote the Critique account given in the Edinburgh Review of
my Papers on Codification. As to the work on Peines et Recompenses Whereas it was, by that
the account of the Book and Work on Peines and Recompenses the Edinburgh Review of it was written by
was written he stopt at the first Volume. The second, however, is in itself beyond
all comparison more instructive, were it only for the⊞ ⊞ relation which it so compleatly brings to view – the relation an article in which it may so compleatly the relation upon the oc
relation which it all along between those two so intimately
connected, though so strongly contrasted, subjects. To the Why
then, in the Review stop at the subject of Punishment? Because in the first of rewards
the diametrical opposition that he place between that he place which
throughout the whole of the field of office, has place between
the interest of the subject many and that of the ruling few, is
there placed in so clear and strong a light: even by and this, even and this even after passing through the prudent
pen of Dumont, whose life was applied passed in the houses of the opulent
leaders of the Whigs, the of the set of men, whose appetite always enough for office with its sweets, has been sharpened by so long a fast.

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Date_1	1820-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	229	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / c1 / d16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	see note to letter 2690, vol. 10	ID Number	4678
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