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

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Mortification upon Mortification. This letter just closed in comes the Morning Chronicle of this day with account of a new order of Knighthood instituted in Peru, under the name of the order of the lime. Good Sir! If indeed you have created any such Peru, less lines into sink lines in the sea, or into any in any smaller receptacle that will extinguish linen and if possible even the very memory of linen, or your own reputation is sunk for ever. An old, stale, and already continued symbol of despotism, set up at that time of day! set up within full view of the Emperor Republic of Columbia!

Sir the true character and effect of this instrument of despotism it is (I hope) altogether unknown to you. Real merit, demonstrated by real services — services rendered to the universal interest — not merely to a particular and sinister interest which is in a state of incurable hostility to it the universal interest — real public merit wants not in whatsoever shape the service was rendered, any thing but the -thing but notoriety notoriety of the service to receive its reward: its just a reward ever just and well apportioned reward fully always ever adequate, never more than adequate to the real value of the service, and to the demand for reward created by it.

Of factitious de, in this and every other shape, what is the distinctive character? What? but the being given, if for service rendered to any body in any shape, for service rendered not to an individual the whole state but to a single individual in the state An individual an this one one individual who is he? Who but the interest or in a state of opposition — perpetual and incurable opposition — to the interest of the state — to the universal interest I mean the individual, whoever it be, by whom this the instrument of delusion is manufactured and conferred, and who being under whatever title, Chief of the State, and who as , adds to that inclination what is prevalent in every man, the power of sacrificing to his own personal interest all others put together.

Think, Sir, what is the nature of this instrument? What is it but a draught drawn by the Patron — drawn by him upon the community at large for a certain portion of their respect. A draught of this sort what is it, if it is not honoured? what is it but in proportion as it is honoured? And

Identifier: | JB/012/075/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1822-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1 - or 4
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	075	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	c1 / e11
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	4136
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