Bowring, vol. X, pp. 428 et

16. Bowring, vol. XI, p. 131 : Lettre à Dumont,du 29 août 1802: What , I want is to défend the Constitution. — There are some of them so profli-

gate that, for the sake of making the better attack upon the Ministry, they would be glad to set New South Wales in a flame, and some hundreds of throats eut on both sides, and would spread the intelligence prematurely with that view. This is a danger for such intriguers as you and me to guard against.

17. Bowring, vol. II, pp 469, 478, 524. — Sur le rôle de Place dans l'élection, v. Graham Walias, life of Francis Place, chap. h.

18. De cette évolution rapide, l'importance est, par Bentham, dans des témoignages postérieurs, tantôt diminuée (Parliamentary Reform Calechism, Introduction, section I, 1819) (Bowring, vol. III, p. 438) : As early as the year 1809, and I forget how much earlier. Cf. ibid, p. 435), tantôt exagérée (Bowring, vol. L> p. 248: écrit en 1822 : Till a dozen years ago or less, I knew not what was meant by influence. — Il l'avait donc oublié : v. Fragment on Government, p. 187; et Bowring, vol. II, p. 307, Judickil Establishment, chap. i, tit. I.

19. Voir son Commerce defended, de 1808. « He (Spence) has assumed the patronage of the poor, at a time when they are depressed below the place which they hâve fortunately held in this country for a century, and when the current of our policy runs to depress them still farther. At a time, too, when every tongue and every pen seem formed to adulation, when nothing is popular but praises of men in power, and whatever tendency to corruption may exist receives in this manner double encouragement, he has the courage boldly to arraign the abuses of government and the vices of the great ». — Suit une apologie de Napoléon et un éloge de la politique de paix.

20. The Eléments of the Art of Packing, as applied to Sjyecial Juries, parliculary in cases of Libel Law; Bowring, vol. V, pp. 61 sqq.