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

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Think, Sir, of the once projected Order of Cincinnatus: if so it be that you ever heard of it. In its origin — in its nature & it was considerably a prodigious degree less bad than the is this same Order of the Sun, appears to be By and comparison less if any order be to be given to the printed accounts just mentioned the Order this[+] [+] exemplification of human ness and unthinking untaken, in the not then as yet sufficiently matured, and purified minds of the in purified the American United States Yet, at this moment on the part of the projected founders of the plausible but deceptive visitation, — it such of them as are yet alive, it can not but be matter of sincere self gratulation that except the makers of Letters self gratulation, that it has been so compleatly sunk by the waters of such as this, the Letters — a lurking place from which, but for the purpose of waters if Letters gave been a warning wuch as this, it would not have been dragged.

Conferred by a single man — looked for at the hands of a single man — whatever a toy of this sort what is it but a prominence offered for every thing that is most base in the human character? for cringing, for favouring, for adulation[+]1 [+]1 for service gratifying to the individual but pernicious to the community in every imaginable shape. Re the design of it what it may, in effect at any rate, is difficulty contestable design of it converting of all ad the substituting a selection of faithful help-mates and sincere advisors, a promiscuous crowd, composed of blind instruments, political prostitutes shameless and flatterers. How In the nature of the case how it can be in any degree less mischievous? A man's as towards the nation — the services rendered by him to the nation — be they ever so eminent, ever so incontestable — whata chance for the obtaining of it ever can present itself to the mind of any man, whose misfortune it is to regard himself as being an object of the Sovereigns displeasure, or even though it were but the being deficient in respect of the quantity degree of favour necessary? necessary (I mean) to the purchase of a benefit in which so small a number of men, and these so distinguished above all others are have been permitted to share?

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Date_1	1822-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-7
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	076	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	c2 / e12
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	4137
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