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1826 Novr 9
J.B. to Arei Guatemala
+ 3 1o & 2o 3
At the shape of in the co-operation for particular purposes most opposition and contest on personal ground
For upwards little less than a century century and a half, there has under the name of Tories and Whigs, the power of this country has been divided between the favour partizens of Monarchy and those of Aristocracy. Within a few years last past the subject many have found champions to support their cause. Among them, at no small hazard to life liberty and property I have been among one of the first if very first to first of if not the very first, to go so far as to make known, in print, and without disguising that I took upon no form of government governance but the democratic as one that the people ought to liberate to: and that one, important composed composed, as this is, of Monarchy and Aristocracy, with but a faint tinge of democracy is in its which compasses compasses [+] [1] a sacrifice of the inward happiness of the subject many to the external outward prosperity of the one and the few.
This two portions between whom the purse of the country country, so far as depends on respect of far as concerns Legislation is shared, h each of there is periodical publication through which their tenets are adv recommended and their measures advocated, at the of public opinion; the Tories, the Quarterly Review; the Whigs, the Edinburgh Review. About three years ago that the cause of the people might not be altogether dis of a similar a support, I set up at the [+] The opinions notions and wishes worse and worse. This does is not I am thus seen to entertain have not hindered holding written intercourse in terms of mutual civility with two principal members, the [+]2 [+]2 expence of from them some thousand pounds out of my very moderate means, and and have kept up without any but a very faint hope of reimbursement a third periodical, published [+]3 [.] as the two others are, four times a year; and the title of mine the not thjat I myself have ever written a syllable government Cunney Secretary for foreign affairs, Peel Secretary for Home affairs; one of whom, Peel, as I have on good authority I have I have from various and unquestionable authority, makes no been confirmed from various questions makes no scent in any scent, wither among his most confidential friends or in mixt companies. company, confidential or mixt that his opinion of his regarding me the only by whom any correct or comparative c is of the business of legislation: and the while I am discussing another member member of the government the Chancellor Lord Elder whose p to have been, as being occupied every day of his life in the of for which (Offences against Justice) inferior punishment — (at the option of the Judge whipping, pillory or or imprisonment transportation with forced forced labor, would be the result requited, if the law were supposed to take its course. Nor even have I been or shall I even to sparing in one , how my opposition to condemnation of measures which to all appearance have of my correspondent originated with this my correspondent, by who but t'other day, in one of his letters to me the words Private and confidential were inscribed.
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jeremy bentham |
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