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1824 April 5 J.B. to Revadavia

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These letters suffice to whew him to be utterly unacquainted with chemistry at any rate, not to speak of new branches of art and science the possession of which would be necessary to the due execution of divers works he speaks of himself as being either executing or projecting. Should he have failed in any of them, what I am now saying will help you in accounting for it. On the other hand, though ignorant in comparison of the general run of men of his profession here, it does not follow that in the absence of better hands he may have done you considerable service: in that case you are too just wise and just, to treat him in any respect the worse, for any thing you are here: indeed it is no very uncommon thing for men's conduct to receive considerable improvement from removal to a distant scene.

As to the unintelligibility of that work of mine, if it was the Propuesta del Codigo &c — the Spanish translation of my Codification Proposal, what so ever may be the case with the original, if in several parts it was actually unintelligible the words would not be great. From several questions I have heard it spoken of as full of misconceptions: the translator himself — (a Spanish priest who goes here by the feigned name of Alicate — W. B. Lawrence was sell acquainted with him) spontaneously acknowledged its being so, maintaining as the cause the degree of dispatch which had been required of him.

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Date_1	1824-04-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	272	Info in main headings field	jb to rivadavia
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 3087, vol. 11	ID Number	4333
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