Bowring, vol. X, p. 487. — Cf. vol. X, pp

64. V. le curieux ouvrage ULlIitarianism umiKished, alelter to the Rev. .M. A. (ialiiercole (of Mossford Lodge, Great Ul'ord, Essex) on Ihe life, deatli, and philosophy of .leremy Bentham, forming a supplément to the cighth article in no 158 of Ihe Edinbunjh Bcview, by the Rev. John F. Colis, D. D., of Trinily Collège, Cambridge, minister of St. Peter's episcopal cliapel, Queen Square, St Jamës's Fark, autiior of « a vindicacation of infant baptism «, etc., etc., London, 1844. L'ancien secrétaire, devenu pasteur, et qui met sa brochure en vente au profit de la c Société nationale pour l'éducation des pauvres conformément aux principes de l'Église établie », raconte ce qu'il considère comme les scandales de la vie privée du vieux libre-penseur, et surtout ses facéties irréligieuses et blasphémaloiies. Il a gardé le début, à lui dicté, d'un discours centre l'Eglise établie : « In comparison of the corruption of wliicii liie Clérical Department is llie seat, the corruption of whicli Lay Deparlments are the seats, is purHij. If to ubtain money on false pretences, — if to do that for wiiich an unprotected man is regarded as being<Hndeservedly consigncd to Botany Bay or the Hulks, is immorality — the English and Irish Cler"y is composed of a set of men whose conduct is essentially and most llagrantly immoral ».

65. Graiiaiii Wallas, Lifeof b'ranch Place, ppi 73sqq. Cf. Romilly, 24 sej)!. 1817:Wefound him passing bis time, as be lias always been passing it since 1 bave known him, which is now more than thirty years, closely

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applving himself for six or eiglit hours a day in writing upon knvs and législation, and in composing his Civil and Criniinal Codes : and spmding tiie remaining hours of every day in reading, or taking exercise by way of fitting himsell for his labouis, or, to use liis own strangely invented phraseology, taking his ante-jentacular and post-prandial walks, lo prépare himself for his task of codification [Mein., vol. IH, pp. 315-6i.

66. BoAvring, vol. X, p. 439 : Bentham à lord HoUand, 31 oct. 1808 : — \o!. X, p. 507 : Bentham à Thomson, 29 sept. 1819 ; — Churcli-of-Englandism, préface on publication, p. VIII. — Cf. Hazlilt, Spirit of Ihe Age, pp. 5-6.

67. Bowring, \o\. X,p.505 : lettre du 1-="^ déc. 1818, pour refuser de présider un dîner de corps.