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Bentham to Bowring
Jany 293 1831
Polish Commissioner — Unique Marquess
Well — as he pleads so hard, I believe I must see him — ill as just now I can
spare the time. We shall not want for of conversation. of sympathetic
contact.
Half a century ago, I took as warm as interest in the affairs of
as now I do in those of France. John Lind you have heard me speak of as a
man with whom I was about as intimate as I am with you. you have seen
I believe though not read, his letters on the First Partition of Poland. He came
over here, in quality of Privy Councillor to the virtuous & unhappy king Stanislas
governor to his nephew, Prince Stanislaus — of the same name (whose virtue
I have) & Director of an institution for the education of a corps of 400 Cadets,
with letters from the king to the Lord Chief Justice of those days (Lord Mansfield)
with whom his Majesty in the course of above a twelve months stay in
England
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