fé\rier 1831 ; Bowring, \ol. XI, p

25. llazlitt iSpirit ofthe Age, 1824, p. 1) peut encore écrire : Mr. Bentham is one of those persons who verify the old adage, that v A prophet lias no honour, except out of bis own country » ... His name is little known in Kngland, better in Europe, best of ail in the plains of Chili and the mines of Mexico. He bas oflered constitutions for the New World, and iegislaled for future limes... Mr. Hobhouse is a greater man at thc hustings, Lord Ro'Ie at Plymouth Dock; but Mr. Bentham would carry it hollow, on the score of popularity, at Paris or Pe-gu.

26. Romilly à Dumont, 31 mai 1803 : Anne told y ou, I believe, that there is no mention of \ou in the third iiuuiber of the Edinburyh Reviciv. I don't thiuk von bave anv reason to be sorrv, unless vou think it would be of use to \our book to bave it abused. The Editors seem to value

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themselves principally upontlieir severity. — Francis Horner, Mémoire and Citrrespœidencc, vol. I, pp. 236-237 : Letter to Thomas Thomson, esq., London, 15 th August, 1803 : a I hope I am not inistaken in inferring from jour letler, that you hâve set your self doggedly to an analysis and criticisin of Dumont's publication. It will cost you some trouble; but it is a noble subject. Dûment himself has been very anxious, 1 understand, to sce it noticed by us ; and indeed it should hâve made its appearanee earlier. The work does not seem to hâve been much read, or to bave excited much attention, even in that small class of persons to whom sueh attempts are interesting. Bentham's naine is répulsive.

27. Ed. Heu., a\ril 1804, art. I. — L'article conclut : Notwithstanding ail that Mr. Dumont has donc to reuder the work popular, we are afraid that it will ha\c fewer readers lhan it deserves. Thosc who do read it, will also dissent, vse should imagine, from many of the aulhor's fondamental principlcs; but they will infallibly be delightcd with the sagacity and independence which distinguishes ail bis spéculations, and will look forward with impatience to the publication of his entire System.

2:*. Bowring, vol. X, p. 415. Dumont à Kent ha m : Romillv tells me, aller having seeu somebody wlio has read the article in the Ediidmrgh Review, that the l>ook — the buok of books — has been treated there with scandalons irrévérence; and for the rest, after having been well rhn>tised, well p.illed up, well huiuiliated forour faulls and an errors, we shall ha\e the advantage of being thoroughly inslructed in matters of législation, since thèse gentlemen — dissatislied as they are with us — will, doubtlesslv, leach us to do better. I am charmed that the lessons of thèse young peuple hâve corne in lime to prevent me from continuing my follies. I onlv jiist wait to read what they say, before I Ihrow ail your MSS. into Ihe lire. What remains of life will be tranquill. Hallelujah ! I shall hâve nothing to do !

29. Ed. Hev., janv. 1807 : Benthain cité avec éloge; on émet le vœu qu'il s'occupe de la question. — L'auteur de l'article est Jeffrey (Dumont à Rentham, 10 fév. 1807; Bowring, vol. X, p. 422).— Bowring : pp. 421-425, 432; correspondance avec Romilly. — Sœtch Heform ; considérai with référence to the Plan proposed in the late Parliainent, for the Régulation of the Courts and the Administration of Justice in Scotland : with Illustrations from English Non-Reform : in the course of which divers Imperfections, Abuses, and Corruptions, in the Administration of Justice, wit'i their causes, are now for the lirsl time brought to Iight. In a séries of letlers adresscd to the [iight Honourable Lord Grenville, etc., etc., etc. With Tables, in which the principal causes of Faclitious Complication, Delay, Vexation, and Kxpense, are distinguished from such as are natural and unavoidable. — V. Ann. lleg., 1807, p. 148 sqq.