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I hope I am not improperly intrusive in my humble
request, that official information may moreover be given me
of such their Lordships directions upon the issuing of the same
as likewise of any subsequent steps which may come to be
taken in consequence thereof: The parties to whom it will
be requisite that such Notices should be given may be found
by turning to the Case with which the Draught of the
Bill perused and approved by the Attorney and Sollicitor
General, was accompanied. A consideration that may contribute
to evince the propriety of the Communication hereby solicited is
that having on a former occasion had the honour of waiting
on the Lord Bishop of Rochester in his quality of Dean of
Westminster, and afterwards of attending a meeting of the
Dean and Chapter, who in their quality of LOrds of the
Liberty of Westminster are principally interested as owners of
the Soil, and having on both occasions been received with the
attention due to the authority in behalf of which it was
necessary I should appear, it may perhaps be deemed a
a suitable mark of respect on my part, should the notices
in question come to be given, that I should previously wait
on his Lordship on that occasion, for the purpose of bringing back the business to his recollection, after so long
an interval, and preparing him for the reception of the
official and legal notice.
I have the honour to be &c
Jeremy Bentham.
Charles Long Esqr.
&c. &c. &c. —
N. B. The concluding passage, here represented as cancelled, is
copied from the original Draught remaining in Mr. Benthams
handwriting: it was suppressed (a copy, in which it was omitted,
being sent in lieu of the abovementioned original Draught) at the
instance of a friend, whose observations were — that it would not
be proper for Mr. Bentham an individual — to express any such
wish of taking the business out of the hands of the proper authority
that it was not for him to presume, much less to represent himself
as presuming, that the Lords of the Treasury would take any other
than the best and most proper course — that if it were their pleasure he
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