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No. 11.
Mr Bentham to Sir C. Bunbury.
21st Aug 1802
My Dear Sir
I have this moment to thank you for your kind letter
inclosing that of Lord Pelham. And has this passed upon Sir Charles
Bunbury for "satisfaction"? My dear Sir, you have not been at the
fair lately. This is the old lay over and over for the hundredth time.
This is Sanconiathon and the Cosmogony, again and again, with
Ephraim Jenkins Pitt Rose Long King Portland Addington Robertson
Sathrop Murray at the bottom of it. —
To be serious — In your situation, stranger as you happily
are to the incidents, with which my memory is stocked, in such minute
detail and such unhappy abundance, his letter appears to have produced
(as it were but natural it should produce) the effect it was intended to
produce — viz: that of appearing to "imply approbation". But what approbation?
that very approbation which was somewhat more than implied
almost a twelvemonth ago, but without producing the smallest particle
of that satisfaction, the hope of which ( such is your god opinion of your
friend) continues notwithstanding to be produced by it. For my own part,
I wish it were possible for me to see any thing better in it than a
qualis ab incepto — a perseverance in the same system of complicity and
evasion, that he and his Colleagues adopted at their entrance into the
Ministry, with the materials for decision passing through their hands, and
staring them in the face. Till the meeting of Parliament, he has obtained
a respite from you (so he thinks at least) by his talk about "endeavours":
when Parliament meets, he shirks you (as before) as long as he can, and
when you have caught him at last, and forced him to speak out, then
it is that you will learn, that he is sorry for it but his "endeavours"
have been fruitless.
The
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