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Dear Bentham.
If my criticism has no other
mind it will have that of frankness. I don't like
your preface & should be rather inclined if I were to
decide betn. that & should vote for it
. There is too much levity in it especially as both in the style &
of it forms a very striking contrast with the proposed
title. A man who is about to read of the Constitn
not violated only but conquered of Enormities committed
& of all our most sacred Laws broken would not expect
to be so much amused at the outset as he will find himself
when he has read only a few parag. of the preface. The
In truth it expresses to me that the title is too vague & the
prefact much too comic. I don't like your phrasing
from the attempted conquest of conscience to the attempted
conquest of the constitn. in 1767. which by the by bye

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Date_1	1803-02-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	samuel romilly	Watermarks	g stafford 1801
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1801
Notes public	letter 1790, vol. 7; also printed in bowring, xi, 144	ID Number	3327
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