Dumont à Roniilly, 10 juin 1803; Bowring, vol. X, p
6. Dumont à Bentham, ocl. 1802; Bowring, vol. X, p. 405, et Duuiont à Homilly, août 1803 ; Bowring, vol. X, p. 408.
7. 5/17 mai 1806; Bowring, vol. X, p. 419. — Cf. p. 413 : lettre du général Sablonkolî à Dumont, 5 févr. 1804. I can bardly wean lîiysflf away from Dumont's Principes, cveii lo write to you. Your brother's book satisfies alike the soûl, the heart, and the mind... Russia wants laws. It is not onlv Alexandcr Un* First wbo desires to give lier a Code. — Russia herself dcmamls one... Lel Jerciuy Bontham prépare it!
— I do not know bim — but I say to inyself, lf lu» die. without having dietated a Code, lie will be ungralclul to that Civator who gave liim bis intellectual powers.
8. Qui brûle en 1818; J.-B. Say à Bentham. 3 mai 1818: Bowring, vol. X, p. 499.
9. Pajters relative to Codification and Publir InstruclUm, et<\, Bowring, vol. IV, Corres|>ondanee avec l'Empereur de. Russie sur la Codification, p[>. 514-528.
1». Bowring, vol. X, p. 395. Cf. Life of lord Shelburne, lettre à lord Holland, 18 avril 1803 (vol. 111, p. 56!b ; F. Horner, Memoirs and Carrespondence, vol. 1, p. 437 : lettre à Thomas Thomson, 15 août 1803.
11. Dumont à Bentham, 29 août. 1808 .Bowring, \ol. X, p. 433)... Si née the Princiftea are known ami cinnlaled lliere — tbe plank is made — and tbe younger înay walk on it umlcr the protection of the elder.
12. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 525,539: \ol. XI, pp. 19-20- Holland House, où fréquentent Dumont et Homilly, e>t le centre du- mouvement ihérophile.
— V. Bowring, vol. X, p. 43 J : Tbe l'air prospects of Spain, ami tbe hopes of eontributing to the establishment of freedom nnd good go\ernmeul in that country, bad almost dt rided Bentham to départ without delay for the seat of the Spanish goxernment.
13. Bowring, vol. X, p. 516; et : Thrce Tracts relative to Sixtnish and Portugucse a/fairs ; with a continuai eye to Knglisb unes, Bowring, \ol. VIII, pp. 460-486 : Tract No f. Letter to the Spanish nation on a tlie.ii proposed House of Lords (1820). — II. Observations on Judge Ad vocale Herinosa's Panegyric on Judicial Delays, etc. — 111. Letter to the Portugucse Nation, on Autiqiiate.fl Constitutions ; on the Spanish Constitution eonsidered as a whole, and on certain det'ects ohsenahle in it.
— Letlers to Couut Torcuo, on the prtn*med Pénal CWc, deli\ered in by tbe Législation Coiumittee of tbe Spanish Coites, April 25, 1821, Bow-
ring, vol. VIII, pp. 487-554. — Le principal disciple espagnol de liciitliain est don (iaspar Jovcllanos, auteur d'un ouvrage utilitaire, sur qui voir Bowring, vol. X, pp. 44°, 44S, 447, 4'i8, 477 ; Mémoires de Broutjlitim, lettre de Brougham à lord Grey, 2 doc. 1S08, de John Whishaw à Brougham, 19 août 1809; (Juuiterly lieview oct. 1813; et Blaquiere, ///*/, Rcv. of the Spanish Révolution, 1822, pp. 499 sqq. — Sur Benthain tn Espagne, v. dans Borrow, The Bihl,' in Spiin, \ol. II, p. 277 ■rit;> par Louis Heyband, Eludes sur les rèï'ormttleurs, tome II, Etude sur « les utilitaires et Jérémie Benthain »), le curieux récit de la conversation de ce missionnaire protestant a\ec l'alcade de la petite, ville de Corcuvion : l'alcade le salue comme << compatriote du grand Buintham, celui qui a in\onté «les lois pour tout l'univers, le plus uni\ersel génie que le monde ait produit ; un Solon, un Platon, et un Lope de Vega... Moi, tel que vous me voyez, simple alcade «le Galice, je possède tous les écrits de Baintham sur ce ravon et les étudie jour et nuit. Mais quel livre Borrow porte-t-il sur lui ?. — Le Nouveau Testament — Ah! ah! voilà qui est très >ingulier. Oui, je me rappelle... on dit que les Anglais estiment beaucoup ce li\re. N'est-ce pas singulier que les compatriotes du grand Baintham lassent le moindre cas de ce vieux li\rc monacal ! » — II est curieux de voir qu'à la même éjMMjue Garlvvright devient ponjilahv en Espagne : Life and Corr., vol. I, p. 3V.) lettre à Materosa, 15 juin 1808», vol. II, p. 61» 'lettre à Arguelles, 23 juillet 1813); et lettre à Thomas Northmore, 6 janvier 1823 : « I hâve Iately had a good aeeount from Spam. I ain informed that a translation of mv Bill of Rights and Liberties is in hand there. 1 vvish they would correct their mode of ekrting members of the Cortes : their successive strainings, whereby theiv ean be nothing more likely than that in the end the représentative chosen by the \ery few who hâve the final straining, may In* one whom a great majority of the collective body would not bave elected.
14. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 432, 439, 444, 445. —Cf. Thelife uni times of Auron Burr, lieutenant-colonel in the army of the Révolution, United States Senator, vice-président of the United States, etc., by James l'arton, éd. de 1864. vol. I, p. 155. Burr étudie Gibbon, Godvvin, Bentham. « At a tiine when the mère name of the great apostle of utilitarianism was knowu ouly to half a dozen of tlie most intelligent minds on this side of the Atlantic, colonel Burr was a reader of bis works, and conceived for their author the highest opinion... Along wilh Burr, Albert Gallatin was a lover of Bentham ; and il is likely enough that Burr derived bis lirst knowledge of Benthain through Gallatin. — Sur Gallatin, v. Bovvring, vol. IV, pp. 453, 408 ; vol. X, pp. 433, 462-463. — Burr reviendra en Angleterre en 1811, où il sera l'hôte de Benthain et fera de la pro ■ pagand»* pour le système de Lancaster (pp. 225-227, 229-230). — V. F. Ilorner, Mv.m. and Corr. vol. I. p. 404 : lettre à J.-A. Murray, esq., 27 oct. 1808: ... I am going to dine with Je i vin y B^uthum and colone
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Btirr, and am very curions to sec what sort of mixture will resuit from putting together pure philosophy and Yankee treason.
15. Récit do la vie de Miranda, par James Mill, ap. Edinlntrgh Revicw, Janv. 1809, art. II (cet article: Lettre aux Espagnols-Américains par un de leurs compatriotes, et l'article de juillet 1809 : Molina's Account of, Chili, ont été écrits par James Mill a\ec des documents fournis par Miranda),
— V. Bain, p. 79. — Bowring, vol. X, pp. 457-458, 468, 487-488 ; vol. IX, p. 19 ; projet de canal interocéanique, repris par Hentham, vol. II, pp. 561 sqq. — Connaît Romilly depuis 1784 {Mémoire*, vol. I, p. 84). — « 9 iinished adventurer » (Brougham à lord Cm 1 }', 2 d«V. 1803).
16. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 500 et 513 : lettre de Bentham non datée, 1820.
17. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 558-559 : José del Vallc à Bentliam, 18 avril 1827 : The montli of March just passed was one of delightful satisfaction to me. In it I received your letter and your |jiK)ks. They well filled my heart with joy. I reeognise the affection which diclated the one, and the kindness which remitted the others. — In my library your vi'orks will hold the distinguished station to which the sage instruetor of the legislators of tho world is entitled. By their influence, I trust a happy révolution will be hrought about among ail the nations of the earth. You hâve reared the sc.'ence \\ynm a fruit fui principle — that of uni versai utility — giving lessons of addition and substraction
— of législative arilhmetic — teaching the calculalions of good and evil
— to group — to deduct — to obtain balances of pain and pleasure — and to form law with a >iew to the gréa test felicity.And having revolutionized the science of législation, you will revolulionize législative codes
— so that nations will hâve Iaws Dot the opprobrium, but the honour of reason — Iaws not tin; misforlunc, but the happiness of man.
— For inany a vear 1 hâve felt that one of the greatest wants of America, of Cuatemala, a beau li fui portion of America, was the suppression of the Codes of Spain, and the introduction of others, worthy of the instruction of the âge, provided by the sages who hâve perfected the jurisprudential science; et Bowring, XI, p. 17 : lettre du 19 mai 1829;
— pp. 48-49 : du 21 mai 1&30; — p. 71 : du 3 août 1831.
18: Bowring, vol. X, pp. 5 2 sqq. ; vol. XI, pp. 22, 28, 33. — Bowring, vol. XI, p. 33: D'après Bentham, la maison Bossange, qui édite les livres de Dumont, aurait vendu 40.000 \olumes de Bentham dans l'Amérique du Sud (1830).
19. Colonel Lciecsler Stanhope, Greece in 1828 and 1824 : Bentham's works are much admiivd on the Continent. The professor of law hère, Carminiani, is quite of liis mind. At the Collège of Bologna none but the Creeks and forcigmrs are allowed to read this author (lettre écrite de l'ise, le 5 nov. 1823). — Bowring, vol. X, p. 517.
