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1822 March 7.
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What follows it has been found necessary to insert,
in the room of the Introduction A. already translated by Mr A. He is therefore humbly petitioned to make a translation of this.
Opinion of the English House of Commons in relation
to Mr. Bentham: extracted from the Debates
of 2 June 1818.

The occasion, on which this opinion
was declared, was that of a motion made by Sir
Francis Burdett, Member for Westminster, for the purpose
of introducing a series of Resolutions framed
and known to have been framed at his desire, by Mr Bentham,
to serve as a basis for a reformed representation of
the people, on the ground of univesality, secresy, equality,
and annuality of suffrage.

The publication, from which the matter is
extracted, is intituled "Hansard's Parliamentary Debates".
Mr. Hansard is Printer to the House of Commons.

The ground, on which it is stated thus
generally as the opinion of the House of Commons
is this. In the House, as in the Nation, there were, then
as now, three parties: the Tories, the Whigs, and the Radicals:
these last so called as being the partisans of a
Radical Reform in the Common's House. Of the Tories
the leanings are on the side of Monarchy; of the Whigs,
on the side of Aristocracy; of the Radicals on the side
of Democracy. On this occasion, Sir Francis Burdett
spoke on the side of the Radicals; Mr. Canning, on the
Tories side: Mr. Brougham took the lead on the Whig
side. On the Radical side there was but one speech, Sir
Francis Burdett's: on the Tory side but that ons speech,
Mr. Canning's: on the Whig side, there were four Speeeches
– Mr. Brougham's, Mr. Lamb's, Mr. Parnell's, and Mr. William
Smith's. In no speech other than Sir Francis Burdett's
and Mr. Brougham's is any mention made of Mr. Bentham:
whatever was said in approbation of him by those two
gentlemen stands therefore uncontroverted. Generosity
and Discretion are competitors for the honor of this silence.
Sir Samuel Romilly, known as the old and intimate
friend and disciple of Mr Bentham, was then on his seat
in the House: by his silence, the particular appeal made
to him by Mr. Brougham stands confirmed. He was
heart and head, a Radical: but could not, consistently
with

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Date_1	1822-08-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
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