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1824. August 12 Greece J.B. Constitutional Code. to Dr Correy Paris
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As to any profit capable of derivable from the sale of the work in Greece I can not set it down as any thing: some small price should must, I think, be set upon each copy as a remuneration to the distributors: but any or else it will run a risk of of being used as waste paper: but every thing of this sort I must seek the likeness of leaving entirely to you: the impression will be entirely altogether at your disposal, except as to those parts of it which I shall desire to be sent for me to London.
On his return hither from Greece, namely about the beginning of July my excellent Philhellene friend the Honble. L Stanhope gave me some information respecting some conversation of his with a distinguished functionary to whom he had learnt that you with acknowledged had sent a letter of good advice. That functionary acknowledged the having received a letter from you, and I believe though not without reluctance showed it to him or read to him at first some extract and at length I believe the whole. Stanhope proposed his printing and publishing it: the proposition was not favorably listened to: with pleasure: as being , he consented to publish some I knew not what extracts but refused to publish the whole it entire. Stanhope said to me he expected (but I did not hear on what ground) that a copy would, from some other quarter, find its way to the press, and become known visible in Greece: that the production may have been accomplished, or at least may be accomplished, is of course my hearty wish. Through the influence of that functionary as supposed, the publication of some paper of mine was, for some time resisted evaded: evaded but in vain: Stanhope, arguing for the publication of it not being thought fit to be resisted. To some observation of in approbation whether of my wishes in general, or some work in particular, as applying or applicable to the case of Greece, "Good in theory, reply, but not for practice": was the reply reply: an observation as trite as it is self contradictory, and of which an exposure is given if I mistake not, in the Volume on "Sophismes" forming the 2d volume of the ... Tactiques des Assemblées Politiques.
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