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to the Parties (should any of the Newspapers in question happen
to fall into their Hands) for the Notice, being given in a manner
thus general, and which, unless some more particular steps should be
taken, might be apt in the present instance to fail of its intended
purpose. In the Country, every body takes in a weekly Country
Newspaper, or hears of the contents from those that do. Here in Town
nobody hardly, without some professional reason, takes in the London
Gazette. —

() No such communication
has however been made
besides that to the Dean
and Chapter: information
having been received
that the Rector of St. Johns
has, as such, no claim: —
and that the former
communication having
made to the Vestry
through the Dean and
Chapter, that channel
was even in the Vestry
itself regarded as the proper one. —

If I had four of any Newspaper or Newspaper in which the
notice appeared, I would take care and convey them, one to the Dean,
another to the Rector of Saint John's, a third to the Vestry Clerk of the
United Parishes, and a fourth to some person of influence who would
be qualified and disposed to prepare the Vestry for the reception of it.
Unfortunately it would be out of my power to obtain the papers in
question time enough: for a newspaper is never to be had after the
day of its publication, nor always at the latter end even of that
day: and I could not know beforehand with any certainty,
what day the Notices would appear. If therefore you approve of
my taking this course, in the view of shewing a proper and prudent
attention to the parties (some of whom are not altogether inattentive
to punctilio (.)) I must be reduced to trouble you, Sir, for the newspapers
in question; and at any rate it would be of great use to me
to be favoured with early information of the time of their
appearance. —

(.) Dr. Smith may perhaps,
recollect Mr. Bentham <lb/. having mentioned to
him (with such observations
as would naturally
present themselves)
that some of the Inhabitants
expressed themselves
at his having made application
to the Dean and
Chapter before he applied
to them. —

I am sorry I cannot fill up the Blank left for the
Date of the Order: the Year (I believe) is 1774: but the Month
and the Day I have no ready means of ascertaining. I have the honour to be very respectfully
Sir
Your most obedient
and humble servant
Jeremy Bentham

Joseph White Esqr
Sollicitor for the affairs
of his Majesty's Treasury.

Identifier: | JB/117/105/003 "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	003	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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