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1820. Sept. 7 19.
J.B. to Mora
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containing, in a compressed form, the substance of it, I had printed perhaps
a third, perhaps about a half in (think think it was in 1813.)
The progress of it was stopped was stopped by the mislaying of some papers which, however,
have lately been found. Of this inedited fragment you will,
I hope, find a copy as Mr Arguelles has, as above, two others.
I hope to be able to send you a copy of the intended titles for all the
divisions in this compressed, and not adequately extended, work.† † But, by the present opportunity, I see already, there will not be time.
What Mr. Dumont may have done with the work at large, whether
he has commenced the preparing of it for the press, and, if he
has, what progress he has made in it, I can not say: his attention
has been much called off by the labour he has bestowed, in his
character of the leading member of the Legislation Committee
in Geneva, for the establishment of a Criminal Code on my
principles, partly by something he has affected in the way of popularizing
the Constitutional Code: I believe by giving introducing into that aristocratical government something
of a virtual, though inadequate, initiative as placed in the hands of the body of the
people.

At present, I should expect to find it the work on Evidence standing as a Candidate
for preference priority, in competition with other branches of the
same painful enterprize: for painful enough it has been rendered
to him by the profusion of words, on each occasion, poured forth
by collaborators, many some of them inexpugnably intrenched in adverse
prejudices. By adequate inducement adapted to his character independent & eminent situation
and to his views, I should expect to find it him capable of being engaged
to give the preference to this same work: if, for example, in the
Cortes, the Chairman of the Cortes Commission Committee of Legislation, as such, or
the Minister of Justice, as such, in his own name, still better if in the name of the King, should think it worth their while
to request to him so to do. And, in that case, it might, perhaps,
be thought advisable, in the event of its being printed and published
in French, to engage a certain number of copies for distribution,
or, if it is not at present in a state fit for publication, to offer
to pay the expence of a copy to be taken of his M.S.S. by an Amanuensis:
the Copy to be transmitted to Madrid, for the purpose
of being there translated into Spanish. At one time or other, all
my MSS on the subject found their way into his hands; and,
antecedently to his departure from this Country Ao. 1817 or 1818,
he informed me that he had made a compleat translation
of them in the state in which he found them: reserving to another
time the putting the materials into such order as he might
approve

Identifier: | JB/013/234/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-09-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	234	Info in main headings field	jb to mora letter i
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4 / d5 / e5
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 2689, vol. 10	ID Number	4683
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