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absolutely necessary to my existence, or conformable to the interpretation
you yourself should think proper to put upon your engagements to
me: as a proof of this disposition, I will beg leave to refer you to
my conduct on occasion of a former offer of the like nature. Any assistance,
I say, Sir, which you could give me without inconvenience
in the publication of my work, certainly could not but be highly acceptable:
but while I publish, and in order to publish, I must eat.
How am I to find wherewithal if the settling of that account be much
longer deferred, is what I would beg you to consider. Till this matter
be made clear to me, you will I hope forgive me, Sir, if you
should find my acknowledgments fall a little short of that gratitude
which otherwise so kind an offer could not but command from me.

Since my last I have had a little indisposition which, co-operating
with the cause I have been mentioning has left my spir ther
low. In flesh, I believe, I am much as usual.

In the General Advertiser Evening of Saturday last (4th Oct.r) I read
Advertisement by the Oeconomical Society of Bern in Switzerland offering
a premium of 50 Louis for a draught of a Code of Criminal Laws
to be produced before 1st July 1779: the premium to be adjudged at
the end of the year. It may be in English as well as in Latin French
German or Italian. It gave me some pleasure to see this, as it
is a proof of the attention bestow'd on these subjects in other countries
besides our own.

You say nothing definitively about the time of your return: that
will depend I suppose upon the benefit you experience from the waters.
We think of returning the last day of the month.

My respectful good wishes wait upon my Mother. Charles I
suppose has quitted you by this time. You say nothing of Far. I
suppose he is still with Mr M. Hills at Colne. I am
Hon:d Sir
Your dutiful and affectionate Son
Jere:y Bentham.

Battle
Wednesday Oct: 8th 1777.

Identifier: | JB/538/142/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1777-10-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	142	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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