RENOMIKE CROISSANTE DR BENTHAM

1. Bowring, vol. X, p. 458 : Bcntham à Mulford, 1 er nov. 1810.

2. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 305, 396, et passiin ; \ol. IV, pp. 45G, 514.

3. Benlhain et le roi de Bavière; Bowring, vol. IV, pp. 456, 514,544 vol. X, pp. 578, 58t.

4. Bowring, X, p. 525 : Du mont à Bentham, 22 février 1821. En Suisse, l'influence de Bentham s'exerce par Du mont. — Cf. Romilly à Dumont (J/ew., vol. III, p. 317 note), 2 oct. 1817 : Bentham is extremely anxious to see you ; and persuades himself not only that lie should be of great use to you, in assisting you to frauit* Ihe Geneva Code, but that it is hardly possible that you can do without his assistance. On the subject of procédure, lie says, and 1 thiuk wilh truth, that it requires expérience which you cannot ha\e had, to form proper rules ; and lie thinks that tiie Kn^lisli law, though bad as a system, is excellent as containing a great collection of faits and an immense store-house of materials for législation. In short, he has quite set his heart upon seeing you

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lien: ; ami I ai a loo rnurli interesled t liât you >houhi conie, not warmly lo second lus request. — V. encore le témoignage «lu colonel Leicester Stanhopo, Grevw in 18&3 and 48±î, pp. 15,-16. Le Kecueil «1rs Lois de Genève is 1 1 1<> nearest approximation to tho system ot* Bentham that bas as yet Iieen aceomplished (Lettre du 18 octobre 1K23).