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Lincoln's Inn Sunday
5 July

Dear Bentham

You desired the Courier not to be
Stopped till the new French paper should be ordered
We have heard nothing on that subject from Dumont
& only know that the Journal de Paris is very bad —
therefore the Courier still goes on — I have not
stopped the Leyden Gazette because you had a view
of establishing another partnership, so that too goes
on; but I wish for your final instructions as to
both before the Circuit Which begins tomorrow fortnight

I received a few days ago an unpublished book of
my friend Gregory's on the old Continuing of liberty &
Necessity in which he lat undertakes to demonstrate that
the doctrine of necessity leads to conclusions Which are
some of them false & rather absurd — The following paragraph
is transcribed from his letter —

— "And one for your own perusal & your friends
Bentham the Usurer, and Nail & Nail's brother — I
have great confidence in the Soundness of your 4 heads &
the fitness of them for Mathematical Strict reasoning. I take
it for granted you will all dislike, & distrust at first,
My mode of writing & reasoning — possibly some of you may
have

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