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ought to be the Law] the best Laws under every head
of Jurisprudence. I have now settled my leading
principles: I have advanced some way in the
execution of my design: and see I think with tolerable
clearness through the whole of it: the completion
of it will be the business of my life. I keep
in view all along the Jurisprudence of all nations:
applying the principles however more particularly
as you may imagine more particularly to that
of my own. For about a year and a half I
have been employ'd principally in writing a Theory
of Punishment which I hope to [be able to]
send to the press in the course of two or three
months. It will form a tolerably large middle sized Volume
in 4vo. I have likewise formed the plan and advanced
a little way in the execution of a Treatise
on Offences: in which by the help of the principles
laid down in my book on punishment
I shall comprize the text of a Code of Criminal
Law [in as far as it applies] in so far as it relates to such heads as apply to the circumstances of
all countries and governments alike.

Abot 6 weeks ago a draught of a Bill
fell into my hands, which was to have been bought
in by Mr Eden, Author of the Principles of Penal
Law, who is a Member of Parliament, Under Secretary
of State, a Lord of Trade, and is now

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / / / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 248, vol. 2	ID Number	56924
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