Discours du 13 mai

42. Disc, du 10 février 1810. — Cf. Mss. Univ. Coll. n^ 132. Defence ôf the Peop/e, etc., letter XI : In regard to tlie Pénal Code, a common intimate friend of ours — I hear il froin himself — would every now and tlien be saying, ^Vhy go on in this slow and puddling way — wliy net take up Bentham's plan at once? and move for a gênerai revision of the Code? a plan of this sort would raise you at once to the pinnacle of public fa vour... But there was a reason which he did not give, and which he had no necd to give. It would hâve interfered with the business of bis profession : it would hâve indeed been incompatible with them. It is easy to say « sacrifice your Personal interest to that of the public » : it is not so easy to make the sacrifice. — En 1809, Basil ilontagu, « esq., of Lincoln's Inn », publie un volume de morceaux clioisis, sous le titre : The Opinions of différent mithors upon the piiinshinent of death (sur la publication de cet ouvrage, cf. Bowring, vol. X. p. 428), et les pages 216-232 sont consacrées aux Traités, qu'il croit avoir été publiés en 1799. Signalons dans cet ouvragt une singularité typographique : c'est seulement en cours d'impression (\. la note, p. 216) que l'auteur substitue, dans le titre courant, le nom de Bentham à celui de Dumont. — Montagu entreprend vers la même époque une traduction des « Traités « de Dumont (v. Add. Mss, 33, 544, f. 328 : Dumont à Bentham, 3 nov. 1807; f. 331-2 : Dumont à Bentiiam, 12 nov. 1807, f. 360 : Dumont à Bentham, 11 juillet 1808).

43. Bomilly, Memoirs, vol. III, p. 336, 5 avril 1818. Bentham promet de ne pas publier, puis manque de parole. — Bain, p. VA. — C'est à la fin de 1813 seulement que W\\\ fut présenté par Bentham à Romilly, sur la demande de celui-ci (Bain, p. 126j. — De même, lîomilly à ]>uMiont, 2 oct. 1817 ; à propos des Papers relative to Codificalion and Public In&lrtidion : « The style is obscure, and many thiiigs said against England and its govei-nment with grent bitterness and asperily, probably as a mcans of paying court to the Americans, but which, as tlie book is to be published in London, are, I tliink, very injudicious ».

44. Bowring, vol. X, p. 413 : lettre du 22 mars 1801 : Wcrel to die immcdiately, the loss would not be great to Evidence : if half a year ago, quitte amour propre, the case would hâve been différent.

4.Ô. Dumont à Bentham, 3 nov. 1807 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 428).

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46. Dumont à Bcntham, 31 juillet 1809 iBowring, vol. X, p. '(51); James Mill à Pcntliaui, 25 juillet ,Bain, pp. 99-100; cl 6 déc. 1809 (Bowriiij.', vol. X. p. 454), et lettre non datée llbuL).

47. Art. VI. Application de la théorie de la législation pénale, par Scipion Bexon. L'artiile flnit par un éloge de Benthani, p. 101 stjq. : Imperfect as iiis success lias necessarilj- been (membre de phrase sans doute ajouté par Jeffrey), we liavc no hésitation in saying, tiiat he lias done more to elucidate the true grounds of législative interférence, than ail the jurists avIio had gone before him. — Encore Jeffrey a-t-il sup|)rimé des citations de Benthani, adouci l'éloge : d'où indignation de Benthaui, de ses amis, de James Mill lui-même iBowring, vol. X, pp. 452 sqq.). Brougham écrivait cependant à Jlill, 10 déc. 1809 : The prais- of Bcntiiam seem.s to me excessive, and not verj- consistent with tlie tone of tiie former article, though perhaps less extravagant than a passage in jour Mrsl South American article. The adoption of his neology, I must enter my decided protest against. It is possible youmight notbe a\varethat/b/7/icomingness and non-forlhcomingness are unknown in ail writings on law, except his ovvn ; but such vvords as semi-public you must be convinced are of his mint. (Bain, p. 106.)

48. Bain, p. 120 : Sivear nol al ail : containing an Exposure of the Needlessness and Mischievoussness, as vvell as Anti-Christianity, of the Ceremony of an Oath : a View of the Parliaraenlary Récognition of ils Needlessness, implied in the practice of both Houses ; and an Jiidiculion of tiie Unexcepiionable Securities, by which wliatsoever practical good purposes tiie ceremony lias been employed to serve, would be more effectually provided for. Togcther with Proof of tlic open and persevering Contempt of Moral and Beligious Prin<iple, perpetuated by it, and rendered universal, in tlie two Cliurch-of-England Universities, more especially in the Univers! ty of Oxford. (Bowriug, vol. V. pp. 187-230.)

49. En 1814, Mill revise et préparc pour l'impression : A Table of Uw Springa of Arliou Showing the several Species of Pleasures and Pains of which Man's .Xature is susceptible ; togetiier with the several species of Interests, Desirex, and Moiives respectively corresponding to tliem ; and the several sels of Appellatives, Netilrul, Eulogislic, and Dy.slogistic, by which each species of Motive is wont to be designated : to wliicii are added, Explanatory Notes and Observations, etc., (Bowring, vol. 1, pp. 195-220). — L'ouvrage paraîtra en 1817.