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the for Dutch Gazettes on a variety of occasions that do him honour,
would I should flatter myself be of the
number. The intelligent and public-spirited persons
certainly would, whoever they are, who
as I read and if one may depend upon the Leyden Gazette of 21 Jany: 1774
in the of name of the Government of
Moscow gave public invitations at that time to
Jurists to study a list of questions these exhibited
from Beccaria, relative to the subject of Criminal
Jurisprudence. To several of these questions
my book on Punishment will in some sort afford
an answer.

I have accordingly taken the liberty of sending you a
few sheets in Manuscript abo to serve as a
kind of Prospectus of that work. I have added
an Essay on Imprisonment for Debt, which may
serve as a small by way of specimen od the work of the work.⊞ ⊞ To this Essay as well as to the Prospectus I have
given
it all the conciseness in my power, designing
it them for that class of readers who have most penetration
and least leisure. You will take what steps
give them what degree of circulation you think
proper.

The little pamphlet above-mentioned is not
the first occasion of my appearing in print.
About this time two years, by way of paving the
way to my prospects for the reception of my plans of reformation, I published
under the title of a Fragment on Government
an attack upon Sr W. Blackstone whose Commentaries
valuable as they are in other respects for a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
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	56925
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