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As to the objection you are pleased to make, of my Verses ending improperly, if you will forgive my presumption in entertaining sentiments of the matter differing from those you have expressed I will venture to offer two or three things to your consideration. 1st that, excepting the 6 lines whereof Velasco is the subject, all the rest are to the honour of the Britons: 2ly, I cannot think there is any impropriety in concluding the whole with the most remarkable circumstance in it, for such I think that action of Velasco's certainly was, especially since as imagine the close is the best of any part of the composition, which it allways should be if possible: 3'dly, I cannot help being of opinion that Velasco's courage
Identifier: | JB/537/176/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537. |
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1763-06-22 |
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537 |
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176 |
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002 |
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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