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1822 June 4
J.B. to General St Martin Protector of Peru

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You in the mention of the it if ever
hands So long as they become enlightened so will you an object
in proportion as the of safety prevent them also shake off their

Mortification upon Mortification. This letter just closed
in comes the Morning Chronicle of this day with an account
of a new order of Knighthood instituted in Peru, under the name
of the order of the Sun. Good Sir! If indeed you have created any
such Sun, less lines into sink lines in the sea, or into any in any smaller receptacle that will extinguish
him and if possible even the very memory of him,
or your own reputation is sunk for ever. An old, stale, and already
continued symbol of despotism, set up at this time of day! set
up within full view of the Emperor Republic of Columbia!

Sir the true character and effect of this instrument of despotism it
is (I hope) altogether unknown to you. Real merit, demonstrated
by real services — services rendered to the universal
interest — not merely to a particular and sinister interest which
is in a state of incurable hostility to it the universal interest — real public merit wants not
in whatsoever shape the service was rendered, any thing but the
-thing but notoriety notoriety of the service to receive its reward: its just a reward ever just and well apportioned
reward fully always ever adequate, never more than adequate
to the real value of the service, and to the demand for reward created by it.

Of factitious disputing, in this and every other shape, what is the
distinctive character? What? but the being given, if for service rendered to any
body in any shape, for service rendered not to an individual the whole state but to a single individual
in the state An individual and This one one individual who is he? Who
but the interest or in a state of opposition — perpetual and incurable
opposition — to the interest of the state — to the universal interest
I mean the individual, whoever it be, by whom this the instrument
of delusion is manufactured and conferred, and who being
under whatever title, Chief of the State, and who as such, adds to that
inclination which is prevalent in every man, the power of sacrificing to his own personal interest all others put together.

Think, Sir, what is the nature of this instrument? What is it but a
draught drawn by the Patron — drawn by him upon the community
at large for a certain portion of their respect. A draught
of this sort what is it, if it is not honoured? what is it but
in proportion as it is honoured? And by what man whose condition is free
and heart and mind uncorrupted by what came what such men to whom the true nature
of the draught is visible — will it ever be honoured? But To what man what man
who sees in it what it is, a false certificate — an instrument of
imposture! will it be regarded By present itself in any more favourable light, or
the <unclear>drawing</unclear> and indorsing but in a more particular manner the drawer not to speak of its pages
regarded as another description present themselves in any other character or better character, than that of accomplices
in the imposture?

Identifier: | JB/012/075/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1822-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1 - or 4
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	075	Info in main headings field	jb to general sn martin protector of peru
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2891, vol. 11	ID Number	4136
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