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of the Soil, and having on both occasions been received with
the attention due to the authority in behalf of which it was
necessary I should appear, it may perhaps be deemed a
suitable mark of respect on my part, should the notices in
question come to be given, that I should previously wait on
his Lordship on that occasion, for the purpose of bringing back
the business to his recollection, after so long an interval, and
preparing him for the reception of the official and legal notice.

I have the honour to be &c
Jeremy Bentham.

Charles Long Esqr.
&c &c &c.

N.B. The concluding passage, here represented
as cancelled, is copied from the original Draught
remaining in Mr Bentham's handwriting: it was
suppressed (a copy, in which it was omitted, being
sent in lieu of the abovementioned original draught)
at the instance of a friend, whose observations were –
that it would not be proper for Mr Bentham –
an individual – to express any such wish of taking
the business out of the hands of the proper authority –
that it was not for him to presume, much less to
represent himself as presuming, that the Lords of the
Treasury would take any other than the best and
most proper course – that if it were their pleasure
he should be charged with any such commission,
they would cause directions to be given to him
accordingly – and that, though the shewing a due
respect to the Dean and Chapter was in point of
intention the object and sole object with Mr Bentham
in making the application convey'd by that concluding
passage, the effect of such application, if complied
with, might be rather the reverse: since by the individuals
taking upon himself the office of making the communication
a communication which might otherwise be made from
some higher and official quarter might be prevented.

Identifier: | JB/117/101/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-07-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	101	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	copy of letter 1356, vol. 6, heavily annotated by bentham	ID Number	38718
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