Graham Wallas. Life of Place, pp. 5 sqq

1)6. Bain, p. 115 : In the- Memoirs of Bentham there is a long letter from Brougbam to Mill, on Law Reform in America, meant for Bentham, and dulv forwarded (o him. This was the time when Mill was the médium of communication beetwen Brougham and Bentham (1811). — P. 129: The expulsion of lord Cochrane from the House of Commons led to a vacaney for Westminster, and Mill was strongly in faveur of proposing Brougham ; hewrote to Place to that effect. At the same time he guaranteed the soundness of Brougham's liberalism, by saying that he would make a déclaration in favour of the three principles put forward in Parliament, in 1809, by Burdett(1814,.— Cf. Bentham to Mulford, 9 juillet 1812 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 472)... But whal will interest you more, when you corne to know the litlle cireumstances that are eonneeted with it, is the mention made by the editor, in a paragraph marked as written by himself, of my name in conjunction with those of Brougham and Romilly... Brougham and Romilly are the Princess Charlotte 1 ? two great heroes, whom she is continuais trumpeting. If she were on the throne, Romilly would of course be Chancellor, Brougham either Minister, or in some high office. They are both of them more démocratie tlian the Whigs; and Erskine, having already been Chancellor, would probably hâve been preferred for that oflice, to Romilly, by the Whigs, had they corne into power when they were so near it. Komilly's is the only house I go to; and Brougham une of the very few, indeed, that l admit into mine. When the Earl of Oundonald dies, Lord Cochranr, whois lus eldest son, will sueceed to the i>eerage;and then it is understood to be certain that Brougham will sueceed him as member for Westminster... Brougham does not seein to have any other more immédiate prospect for coming into Parliament, which, of course, I am sorryfor.

37. V. ap. Th? Poctry of the Anti-Jacobin, les extraits des n oa XIII, 5 fév. 1798: XVII, 3 mars 1798; XXV, 30 avril 1798. — Nous avons vu l'expression « a radical cure » employée en 1776 par Cartwright; elle

l'avait été auparavant par Bolingbrokc, Discourse upon Parties, letter 18.

— Cartwright (Life and Corr. vol, II, p. 190) dans un procès politique, eu 1819, signale Pitt déclarant en 1780 « that lie so mueh admired the beauties of the English constitution, that he wished to remove its defects, as he clearly perceived they were defects whirh altered the radical principles of the constitution, and it would not be innovation, but a recovery of the constitution to remov3 them ». — Cf. Burke, Speech on Economical Reform (Works, vol. III, pp. 290-291) : « In ail dealings vtherc it is possible, the principles of radical economy prescribe three things ».

38. lettre au rév. Christophe Wivyll, 15 avril 1811. — Cf. lettre à T Northmore, juin 1815.

39. Ed. Kev., vol. XIV, p. 277, juill. 1809 : It cannot be doubted that there is at tins moment... a very gênerai désire for a more radical reform than would be effected by a mère change of ministry. — Vol. XX, p. 139, uill. 1812 : \\e are anxious not to be misunderstood, as recommending his alone : we do not scruple to maintain, that it would be insufficient, — and that a much more radical improvement, we should rather say, restoration of the Constitution, is required... those radical changes winch frighten so many well meaning persons. — À un dîner de juin 1814, Brougham mentionne « the two radical doctrines of yearly élections and (liât the élective franchise should beextended to ail who pay taxes».

— Dans le Black Dwarf, journal publié par Wooler, ami de Bentham, je trouve les expressions « reformera » (3 sept. 1817, 11 nov. 1818), — « friends of reform » (t9 janv. 1817), — « radical reformer » (1" juillet 1818, 18 nov. 1818). — Mss. Univ. Coll. n° 125 (Parliamentary Reform). Fragment du 17 juin 1811 : « What is called radical reform is the only reform. The only reform capable of operating in any considérable degree in the cha racler of a remedy. — et ibid. n° 127 : un fragment de juin 1810, où Bentham préfère les termes comptent et incompleat reform à radical et moderate reform. — Moderate s'oppose à immoderate. — Radical est emphatique, et peut être pris en mauvaise part. « Pull up a weed by the roots, there is an end of it. »