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Dear Bentham.
If my criticism has no other
merit it will have that of frankness. I don't like
your preface & should be rather inclined if I were to
decide betn. that & more should vote for omitting it
altoger.. There is too much levity in it especially as both in the style &
of it forms a very striking contrast with the proposed
title. A man who is about to read of the Constitn.
not violated only but conquered of Enormities committed
& of all our most sacred Laws broken would not expect
to be so much amused at the outset as he will find himself
when he has read only a few parags. of the preface. The
In truth it expresses to me that the title is too vague & the
preface much too comic. I don't like your passing
from the attempted conquest of conscience to the attempted
conquest of the constitn. in 1767. which by the by bye

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Date_1	1803-02-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	samuel romilly	Watermarks	g stafford 1801
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1801
Notes public	letter 1790, vol. 7; also printed in bowring, xi, 144	ID Number	3327
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+If my criticism has no other<lb/>
+merit it will have that of frankness. I don't like<lb/>
+your preface &amp; <del> should be rather inclined
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+decide bet<hi rend="superscript">n.</hi> that &amp; more should vote for omitting it<lb/>
+altoge<hi rend="superscript">r.</hi>. There is too much levity in it especially as <del>both in the style &amp;</del><lb/>
+<del>of  <gap/></del> it forms a very striking contrast with the proposed<lb/>
+title. A man who is about to read of the Constit<hi rend="superscript">n.</hi><lb/>
+not violated only but conquered of Enormities committed<lb/>
+&amp; of all our most sacred Laws broken would not expect<lb/>
+to be so much amused at the outset as he will find himself<lb/>
+when he has read <add>only</add> a few parag<hi rend="superscript">s.</hi> of the preface. <del>The</del><lb/>
+In truth it expresses to me that the title is too vague &amp; the<lb/>
+preface much too comic. I don't like your passing<lb/>
+from the attempted conquest of conscience to the attempted<lb/>
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