Bowring, vol. X, pp. 450-451 : 31 janv

21. Bentham à Cobbett, 8 avril 1809 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 449); Bentham à .1. Multord, 24 avril 1810 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 455).

25. Bowring, vol. X, p. 460: Bentham à Sir Francis Burdelt, mai 181 1 :

(Pp. 199-201) NOTES. 341

lettre pour l'adjurer d'être présent au prochain débat parlementaire sur la question du Vice-Chancellorship. — Bowring, vol. X, p. 471 : Bentham à Mulford, 9 juillet 1812 : Sir Francis Burdett is still upon my hands, for a dinner lie has been wanting to give me, any time thèse six weeks,offering to hâve anybody 1 will name to meet me.

26. Bowring, vol. X, p. 404: Horne Tooke had a narrow mind. His library was narrow. A man may be judged of by his library. Ile was of great use to Burdett. He gave him some degrec of inteilectuality. — Memoirs of Henry Hunt, vol. I, pp. 509 sqq. : Mr. Tooke certainly made Sir F. Burdett a puppet to carry on his hostility against those ministère who had persecuted him, and aimed a dcadly blow at his life... Sir Francis Burdett gloried in being thought a disciple of Mr. Tooke. — Sur les opinions politiques de Horne Tooke, V. Stephens, life of Tooke, en particulier vol. I, pp. 501 sqq.; vol. II, pp. 463, 419.

27. Diversions of Purlcy, Part. II, cliap. I. Hights of Man, vol II, p. 1, sqq. — Cf. Bowring, vol. X, p. 404 : Bentham, parlant de l'influence exercée par Tooke sur Burdett, continue: «Burdett always travelled with some stuff of mine — but I could not get him to give up the common law. He thought it a beautiful person. What a sad thing it is that imagina ry law should be confounded with real law. What authority has the maker of the common law ? » Bentham songe-t-il à Tooke et Burdett, lorsqu'il réfute {Art of Packing, p. 164) la théorie du retour aux origines : « As to the existing spécial jury System, my real quarrel with it is — not that it is a différent one from the original jury System, but that, in corn pari son with it, it is a bad one »?