JB/044/041/002

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1822 Oct. 26.

Sir

Your answer to my letter of information on the
subject of Mr Bowring's arrest at Calais was acknowledged
by me as due concern at the time in the manner that seemed to
me at once the most appropriate and the most honorable.
Of the effect produced by your declaredly intended, and
of course written and immediately dispatched
Letter of that same date to his Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, not
having as yet received any information, I take the
liberty of expressing my giving expression
to those anxious wishes in which I can not but entertain am but a sharer
<del>in common with all those in justice in the proceedings of governments eyes the security
of an English subject against foreign aggression is of any value. Should
there be any impropriety in your writing any
answer to this my returning an answer to the presentapplication at the present
conjuncture, there no not I trust be is not any impropriety
in its being made.

I am, with all respect
Sir
Your obedient Servant
Jeremy Bentham

I could not justify myself hold myself justified either to my
friend or to the public if I deferred any longer the making
the present application after the sanction so obligingly given to the former
use Punish first: try or do not try have included afterwards. If this be really the cause of justice according to the notions
of it by the French Government, it can not surely be too
authentically known, this being all that can be done by his
Majesty or any other friendly government towards changing it
to use punish first: for towards must be in a strange state of solitude is necessary to .

Identifier: | JB/044/041/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1824-10-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	041	Info in main headings field	constitutional code us
Image	002	Titles	rationale
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a28 / d13 / e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	13826
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