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1822 May 22

J.B. to Boyer President of Haiti

With the most lively interest I apply myself to the receive
collecting every information I can lay my hands on relative
to the state of government and manners society in your
country. Mr Bowring who is my right hand man
for this and every pursuit thing that affords a promise of
utility to mankind, and who I find is first is so Mr Bowring who is so
justly sensible of the honour of being of the honour due to him by your correspondence
with knows that this is one of the of the numbers of those points, in
in relation to which I have his assistance is most highly proved it gratifying to me
[and most sensible to the of it] I The documents
I have before me are a Letter of yours to
him, a Letters of Yours to M. Jullien Directeur de
la Revue Encyclopedique and the Address from the Chamber
of Representatives of the Commons to the Citizens of the Commonwealth
as printed in the Paris paper the Constitutionel. The For the particulars of the Constitution
of your State I am to my no small regret
still a stranger. Perhaps you may be not altogether disinclined to gratify my wishes,
desire is there made known to you in these particulars when they are thus made known to you, together with the motives by which it they have been
produced, and
the grounds I
have for the hope,
that I should not
prove an altogether
unserviceable
correspondent, or
that my
in so far as
but in relation to
your service my
labours may be not
pr altogether impossible useless.

When from time to time I make observation of the
abominable horrible extent to which the trade in Slaves with
Africa is still carried on notwithstanding all the exertions,
which for so long a course of years, have been directed
to the suppression of it, it excites every man and then a my imagination is every now and then
wish that to have that in your State painting to me a means of retribution which, whether upon the whole beneficial to mankind, I could not I must confess
in the hope of its being so, see realized without sensible measure satisfaction: vessels fitted out from
your State, capturing those monsters those Ships in
which the blood of is there
the Slave-trading ships, the victims of
the traffic and aggregating them the victims of the traffic to the number of your
Citizens, and consigning in each instance to the like Slavery in your
Island, the Master and Crew: the Master with one of the Vessels, with such an
indelible mark upon their him as should have distinguished from the above from the rest a
that have so highly distinguished among those in barbarity, and in the profit
reaped from it. If his
nose or one of his lips were cut off, he might instead of it by this indelible mark in case of escape or ransom, still as impress useful terror, on the minds of all whom
he found engaged in the like traffic or under temptation to engage in it; and he might thus preach to their eyes more effectually than the most eloquent of Orators
could do to their ears.

With the respect I am, Sir
Yours Jeremy Bentham
to Jean Pierre Boyer
President of the Republic of Haiti

Identifier: | JB/060/091/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 60.
Date_1	1822-05-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	060	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field	jb to boyer president of haiti
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 2938, vol. 11	ID Number	19649
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