fé\rier 1831 ; Bowring, vul. \I, p

25. Hazlitl i^Spirit of Ihe Age, 1824, p. 1) peut encore écrire : Mr. Bentliam is one of tiiose persons who verify llie old adage, that « A pro|)het lias no honuur, c\cept out of his own country» ... His name is little known in England, bettcr in Europe, bcst of ail in tlie plains of Chili and the mines of Mexico. He lias ofPeréd constitutions for the New World, and iegislated foi' future times... Mr. Hobhouse is a greater man at the hustings, Lord lio'le at l'iymoulh Dock; iiut Mr. Bentiiani would carry it holiow, on the score of popularity, at Paris or Pegu.

26. Romilly à Dnmoiit, 31 mai 1803 : Anne lolil you, I l)elieve, that there is no miiition of you in llie tiiiid nundxr nf tih' Kdi nJiunih Review. 1 don't tliink jon bave auy reason to hc sorry, uidess you Ihink it would be of use to vour book to bave it abuscd. The Editors scem to value

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themselves principally upontheir severity. — FrancisHorner, Memulrsditd Correspondcnce, vol. I, pp. 236-2:57 : Letter to Thomas Thomson, esq., London, 15 tli August, 1803 : o; I hope 1 am not mistaken in inferring froiii your leltei-, that you hâve set your selT doiigedly to an analysis and criticism of Dumont's publication. Il will cost ypu sonie trouble; but it is a noble subject. Dumont himself bas been vory anxious, I understand, to see it noticed by us ; and iiideed it siiould bave niade ils appearance earlier. The work does not seem to bave been much read, or to bave excited much attention, even in that small class of pensons to wbom suob attempls are interesting. Benthani's nanie is répulsive.

27. Ed. Rev., avril 1804, art. I. — L'article conclut : Notwithstanding ail that Mr. Dumont bas done to render tbe work popular, Ave ;u-e afraid ihat it vvill bave fewer readers tiian it deserves. Tliose \vlio do read it, \vill also dissent, \\e should imagine, from many of tbe author's fundamental principles ; but they will infallibly be deliglited witb tbe sagacity and independence -which distinguishes ail bis spéculations, and will look i'orward Avilb impatience to tbe publication of bis cntire syslem.

2-^. Bowring, vol.X, p. 415. Dumont à Bentham : Ibanilh tells me, al'ter baving seen somebody who bas read tbe article in tbe Ediiiburgh Revieto, that tbe book — tlie book of books — bas been treated there with scandalous irrévérence; and fur tlie rest, after iiaving been well cba^tised, vvell p-illed up, well bumiliated for our laults and an errors, Ave shall bave tbe advantage of being tlioroughly inslructed in matlers of législation, since thèse gentlemen — dissatislied as they arc with us — vvill, doubllessly, teach us to do better. I am charmed that tbe lessons of thèse young pcople bave corne in timc to prevent nie from continuing my follics. I only just wait to read wbat they say, before I Ihrow ail your MSS. into Ibe lire. ^Vhat remains uf life will be tranquiil. Hallelujab ! I shall bave nothing to do !

29. Ed. Rev., janv. 1807 : Bentham cité avec éloge; on émet le vœu qu'il s'ocnipe de la question. — L'auteur de Tarticle est Jell'roy f Dumont à Bentham, 10 fév. 1807; Bowring, vol. X, p. 422).— Bowring : pp. 421-425, 432; correspondance avec Romilly. — .SV;o/c/i Refonn ; considered with référence to the Plan pi-oposed in tbe laie rarliamenl, for liie Régulation of tbe Courts and tbe Administration of Justice in Scolland : with Illustrations from English Xon-Ueform : in the course of which divers Imperfections, Abuses, and Corruptions, in the Administration uf Justice, witli thcir causes, are nou for the first time brought to light. In a séries of letters adressed to tbe Higiil Hunourable Lord Grenvilie, etc., etc., etc. With Tables, in which the prin(i|ial causes of Factitious Complication, Delay, Vexation, and Kxpense, are distinguisbed from sucli as are naliiral and unavoidable. — V. Ami. Rcg., 1807, p. 148 sqfj.