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

21. Bentham à Cobbett, 8 avril 1809 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 449); Bentham à .1. Mulford, 24 avril 1810 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 455). 25. Bowring, vol. X, p. 460: Bentham à Sir Francis Ijurdell, mai 1811 :

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lettre poui- radjurcr d'être présent au proidiain débat parlementaire sur la question du Yice-Chancellorship. — Bowring, vol. X, p. 471 : lîentham à Multord, 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 \veeks,offering to hâve anybody I will name to meet me.

26. Bo^vring, vol. X, p. 404: Horne Tooke had ;, narrow mind. Ilis library Avas narrow. A man may be judged of by liis library. He was ol' great use to Burdett. He gave liini some degree of inlellectuality. — Memoirs of Henry IIunt,\o\. I, pp. .509 sqq.: Mr. Tooke certainly made Sir F. Burdett a puppet to carry on his hostility against those ministers who bad persecuted him, and aimed a deadly blow at his life... Sir Francis Burdett gloried in being thought a disciple of Mr. Tooke. — Sur les opinions politiques de Ilorne Tooke, V. Stephens, life of Tooke, en particulier vol. I, pp. .501 sqq.; vol. II, pp. 463, 479.

27. Diversions of Purley, Part. II, ehap. I. Rights of Man, vol II, p. 1, sqq. — Cf. BoAvring, vol. X, p. 404 : Bentham, parlant de rinlluencc exercée par Tooke sur Burdett, continue: «Burdett always travellcd witli 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 tiiing it is that iniaginary law should be confounded withreal law. Mhat authority has tbc 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 lliat, in comparison witii it, it is a had one » ?