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<head>7</head><lb/>of the trouble I am then giving you, the immediate cause is my<lb/>having perused (I should have said <hi rend="underline">heard</hi> such is the state of my eyes)<lb/> <hi rend="superscript">in</hi> the Morning Chronicle of 26<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Dec<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 1818  your speech to your Council<lb/>of State, announcing <del>the</del> or proposing the convocation of a Representative<lb/>Assembly. If the affections and emotions which it excited the measure<lb/>as well as proof may be considered as afforded by the length of<lb/>this address, under the joint <del>had</del> <hi rend="superscript">pressure</hi> of the business and the <unclear>imformative</unclear><lb/><del>and which I believe</del> above spoken of. But the strongest proof is yet to come. It is<lb/>the irksome task I have undertaken of hazarding the exposing myself<lb/>to your displeasure, rather than suppress some information<lb/>the receipt of which <gap/> it can scarcely fuel to is <hi rend="superscript">more or less</hi> <gap/><lb/>may ultimately be of use to the great cause of which you are at<lb/>the head : sure I am that my rate but for that hope, <del><gap/></del> <hi rend="superscript">I never</hi><lb/>should have been this troublesome by me at least it never would<lb/>have been <gap/> upon you. In some letters which I have<lb/>seen, a gentleman <hi rend="superscript">an English Officer</hi> whose abilities are <gap/> <hi rend="superscript">manifested</hi> upon those same<lb/>letters, and whose character, I am assured by those is whom I<lb/>have perfect confidence, represents <hi rend="superscript">speaks of</hi> himself of his having conversed<lb/>with you in Barcelona shortly before you were obliged<lb/>to evacuate that place. <del>Spanish promises to the number</del> of<lb/>As parting you count from hear (he says) on the declared <gap/>,<lb/>of putting to death with you <del><gap/></del> our <gap/> a large number<lb/>of Spaniards, then <del><gap/></del> lying at your disposal in the<lb/>quality of prisoners. Before I close this I will endeavour<lb/>to procure the letter a quartet <gap/> <gap/> and copy the passage.<lb/>It is not yet in print : but it                              
<head>7</head><lb/>of the trouble I am then giving you, the immediate cause is my<lb/>having perused (I should have said <hi rend="underline">heard</hi> such is the state of my eyes)<lb/> <hi rend="superscript">in</hi> the Morning Chronicle of 26<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> Dec<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 1818  your speech to your Council<lb/>of State, announcing <del>the</del> or proposing the convocation of a Representative<lb/>Assembly. If the affections and emotions which it excited the measure<lb/>as well as proof may be considered as afforded by the length of<lb/>this address, under the joint <del>had</del> <hi rend="superscript">pressure</hi> of the business and the <unclear>imformative</unclear><lb/><del>and which I believe</del> above spoken of. But the strongest proof is yet to come. It is<lb/>the irksome task I have undertaken of hazarding the exposing myself<lb/>to your displeasure, rather than suppress some information<lb/>the receipt of which <gap/> it can scarcely fuel to is <hi rend="superscript">more or less</hi> <gap/><lb/>may ultimately be of use to the great cause of which you are at<lb/>the head : sure I am that my rate but for that hope, <del><gap/></del> <hi rend="superscript">I never</hi><lb/>should have been this troublesome by me at least it never would<lb/>have been <gap/> upon you. In some letters which I have<lb/>seen, a gentleman <hi rend="superscript">an English Officer</hi> whose abilities are <gap/> <hi rend="superscript">manifested</hi> upon those same<lb/>letters, and whose character, I am assured by those is whom I<lb/>have perfect confidence, represents <hi rend="superscript">speaks of</hi> himself of his having conversed<lb/>with you in Barcelona shortly before you were obliged<lb/>to evacuate that place. <del>Spanish promises to the number</del> of<lb/>As parting you count from hear (he says) on the declared <gap/>,<lb/>of putting to death with you <del><gap/></del> our <gap/> a large number<lb/>of Spaniards, then <del><gap/></del> lying at your disposal in the<lb/>quality of prisoners. Before I close this I will endeavour<lb/>to procure the letter a quartet <gap/> <gap/> and copy the passage.<lb/>It is not yet in print : but it may be at any time, and the<lb/><gap/> busy personally a stranger to me I can have an assurance<lb/>of being able to support it. <del>We are able</del> <del>Although the</del> <hi rend="superscript">By the newspaper</hi> every body here is <gap/><lb/>heard in general terms of the shocking provocation you had received<lb/><del><gap/></del> For a man <del>who never</del> to whom it never happened a never the<lb/>like nothing is more easy than to indulge himself in expression<lb/>of condemnation, and to say no such retribution would have been<lb/>exercised by me. Think not therefore that I mean to obstruct upon<pb/>                                       




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of the trouble I am then giving you, the immediate cause is my
having perused (I should have said heard such is the state of my eyes)
in the Morning Chronicle of 26th Decr 1818 your speech to your Council
of State, announcing the or proposing the convocation of a Representative
Assembly. If the affections and emotions which it excited the measure
as well as proof may be considered as afforded by the length of
this address, under the joint had pressure of the business and the imformative
and which I believe above spoken of. But the strongest proof is yet to come. It is
the irksome task I have undertaken of hazarding the exposing myself
to your displeasure, rather than suppress some information
the receipt of which it can scarcely fuel to is more or less
may ultimately be of use to the great cause of which you are at
the head : sure I am that my rate but for that hope, I never
should have been this troublesome by me at least it never would
have been upon you. In some letters which I have
seen, a gentleman an English Officer whose abilities are manifested upon those same
letters, and whose character, I am assured by those is whom I
have perfect confidence, represents speaks of himself of his having conversed
with you in Barcelona shortly before you were obliged
to evacuate that place. Spanish promises to the number of
As parting you count from hear (he says) on the declared ,
of putting to death with you our a large number
of Spaniards, then lying at your disposal in the
quality of prisoners. Before I close this I will endeavour
to procure the letter a quartet and copy the passage.
It is not yet in print : but it may be at any time, and the
busy personally a stranger to me I can have an assurance
of being able to support it. We are able Although the By the newspaper every body here is
heard in general terms of the shocking provocation you had received
For a man who never to whom it never happened a never the
like nothing is more easy than to indulge himself in expression
of condemnation, and to say no such retribution would have been
exercised by me. Think not therefore that I mean to obstruct upon
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Identifier: | JB/010/006/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.

Date_1

1820-01-24

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

010

Main Headings

Folio number

006

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c7 f7

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::i&m [fleur de lys] 1818]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

arthur wellesley, duke of wellington

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1818

Notes public

see note to letter 2719, vol. 10

ID Number

3442

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