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Pencil note 1820 Feb.
To Gorssenhoof
Sir

I am much less suprized than shocked and dejected by
the state of things brought to my ear by the letter with which you
have honoured me. Natural as it was on some account that you should have been
to upon me for such a purpose the subject <hi rend="superscript">object of your address</hi>, yet on other accounts I
am the last perhaps the individual in the whole Kingdom
from by whose interference the cause could be most exposed to injury in danger of being most
injured. Against me the unfortunate relation which it was once my ill fortune to bear I once bore to the subject
considered, against me anything I could say one of those fallacies might which in the present
state of the public human mind operate with such deplorable efficiency
might may be played off with peculiar advantage: you yourself have
been a special sufferer, and to a degree not to be forgiven by the
abuse you set your face against, therefore it is no abuse. Such
is the logic which the nature of the case furnishes, and such logic
is unpacts in possession of being but too impassive.

Another In addition trend is the impossibility of being known at any time
to those who are punished for not knowing it, there is another
property in the Common Law that is the furniture of the Courts which
a is of chief sufficient to disqualify me from any such
presumption as that of regarding myself competent to give any
such opinion on that which you have been are pleased to express
a desire to receive from me. It is that of being every day
upon the charge. That which The information which you ask for you yourself
as far as I can trust on such a subject my own judgement as in a
most eminent degree competent to give: As far as I am in a condition to see, all the information All that bears upon
the subject you seem are already in possession of: cond are you are
already not only in possession of it, and shew that you have but have actually
employed it to the best every advantage it is capable of. In the application of
these made to me your you have therefore reserved courage in for saying so
the parts that belong respectively to us. Were any an Ass to apply to me
for information my opinion on the subject I should say ... & would be - I can give
you an opinion of my own: it would not be worth a straw: but I
can however tell you where you may have an excellent one - go to Mr Gorssonhoof.
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Date_1	1820-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	010	Info in main headings field	[[info_in_main_headings_field::to griffinhoof[sic]]]
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2589, vol. 9	ID Number	3446
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