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28 Jany 1808

By means of a claim of Executorships it happens to
me to be possessed of a Manuscript in the hand of the Dean unpublished I believe, and containing
what Lord Ellenborough would I have no doubt Lord Ellenborough would call
a libel, having for its subject a learned Sergeant of those days
bearing in those days the now so highly respectable name of
Beresford. Having at the same time in my possession
an old a trunk that had once been in the possession of the ingenious
Mr Ireland, I threw into it amongst other library
, that manuscript of Dean Swifts. Judge, my
Lord, of my surprize, and at the same time of my
delight surprize, when on opening the trunk for on I know not what
occasion, I found it almost filled with manuscripts
evidently written in the same hand, and one of the sheets
bearing for its title in large characters, Directions for
Judges.

In Latin, as Your Lordship knows, there is no difference
between a prophet and a poet. In Greek, at least
in Hebrew Greek those the difference was as little between a prophet and
a politician statesman: an identity the less to be wondered at, when
it is considered that in the days of Hebrew Greek it was as
common, and considerably more easy as at all times it is as to the full least as easy to prophecy after the
fact as before: witness the text, "prophecy who smote thee".

On turning over those Directions I was the less surprized
at observing when I observed how readily easily and with what ease success
the Dean passed all along from the one character to the other:
so easily that it was not always easy to distinguish say at first sight
in which of them he wrote.

Identifier: | JB/091/247/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-01-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	247	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	29243
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