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Mr. white to Mr. Bentham in answer. —

Not knowing where to direct to you I applied
to Mr. Butler and having shewn him the notice he offered
to send it to you, first telling me he thought it was proper.
The notice is not to be delivered but it is to be inserted in
the Gazette and other Papers. If therefore you will alter it
and send it back to me I will immediately get it inserted.
There cannot be the least objection in altering it in the
manner you have suggested. —
No signature. —

No. 6 Lincolns Inn
12 Septr. 1790

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Mr. Bentham to Mr. White, in reply.

Hendon, Middlesex 13th Septr. 1790

Sir
I beg your acceptance of my best thanks for the favour
of your very speedy answer, and on a particular manner for the
obliging attintion manifested in the shewing the form in question
to my learned friend; and it affords me no small satisfaction to
find that the little alterations I took the liberty to suggest (and
which arose out of the matters of fact that happen to have fallen
particularly within my knowledge) have received the Sanction
of your approbation. In obedience to yours commands I send
a form to the effect approved of as above: and, having the Bill
before me, I thought it might be as well to make the description,
of the Parties to be treated with, tally, as nearly as night be,
with the description given in the Bill, for the reception of which
it is the object of the Notice to prepare the practice. —

Recollecting just now that the mode of publishing the
Notices is prescribed, by the order of the House of Commons be which
they are appointed to be given, I could wish, if you had no objection,
that the words inserted in the margin might stand as part of
the Notice. Not that they can be in the smallest degree be nicely
say to the validity of it; but morely for the purpose of accounting to

Identifier: | JB/117/105/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1790-09-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f8
Penner		Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	copy of letter 1369, vol. 6	ID Number	39054021
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