Dumont à Romilly, 10 juin 1803 ; Bowring, vol. X, p
6. Dumont à Bentham, ocl. 180Ï ; Bowring, vol. X, p. 405, et Dumont à Romilly, août 1803 ; Bowring, vol. X, p. 408.
7. 5/17 mai 1806 ; Bowring, vol. X, p. 419. — Cf. p. 413 : lettre du général Sablonkoff à Dumont, 5 févr. 1804. I can hardly wean myself away from Dumont's Principes, even to write to you. ïoor brolher's book salisfies alike the sont, the hearl, and the mind... Russia wants laws. It is nol only Alexaniler the First who desires to give her a Code. — Russia berseH demanda one. .. Let Jeremy Bentham prépare it!
— 1 do not know him — but I say to myself, If he die without having dictated a Code, he will be ungrateful to that Creator who gave him his intellect ual powers.
3. Qui brûle en 1818; J.-B. Say a Bentham. 3 mai 1818; Bowring, vol. X, p. *99.
9. Paper» relative to Codification and PvblU: Instruction, etc., Bowring, vol. IV, Correspondance avec l'Empereur de Russie sur la Codification, pp. 514-528.
10. Bowring, vol. X, p. 395. Cf. Life of lord Shtlbume, lettre a lord Holland, 18 avril 1803 (vol. III, p. 569) ; F. Uorner, Manoirs "and Correspondance, vol. I, p. 437 : lettre i Thomas Thomson, 15 août 1803.
11. Dumont à Bentham, 29 août 1808 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 433)... Since 11»' Principes arc known and circulated there — the plank is made — und llie younger may walk on il under Ihe protection of the elder.
12. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 525,539; vol. XI, pp. 19-20— Holland House, où fréquentent Dumont et Romilly, est le rentre du mouvement ibérop h ile.
— V. Bowring, vol. X, p. 433 : The fair prospects of Spaiti, and tbe hopes of contributing to the establishment of freedom and good government in that country, had almost decidéd Bentham to départ without delay for tbe seal of Ibr Spanish government.
13. Bowring, vol. X, p. 516; et ; Three Tracts relative to Spanish an d Ptirttig'iese affairs ,- with a continuai eje lo English ones, Bowring, vol. VIII, pp. 460-486 : Traol No I. Letler lo the Spanish nation on a llien proposed House of l.onis <1KW\. — II. Observations on Judge Advocate Hcrmosa's Panegjric on Judicial Delaji, etc. — 111. Lclter to Ihe
Portuguese Nation, on Antiquated Constitutions ; on the Spanish Constitution considérai as a whole, and on certain defects observable in it. — Letters to Count Toreno, on the proposée Pénal Code, delivered in by the Législation Committee of the Spanish Cortes, Âpril 25, 1821, Bowring, vol. VIII, pp. 487-554.— Le principal disciple espagnol de Bentham est don Gaspar Jovellanos, auteur d'un ouvrage utilitaire, sur qui voir Bowring, vol. X, pp. 440, 445, 447, 448, 477 ; Mémoires de Brougham, lettre de Brougham à lord Grey, 2 déc. 1808, de John Whishaw à Brougham, 19 août 1809; Quarterly Review oct. 1813; et Blaquiere, Hist. Rev. of the Spanish Révolution, 1822, pp. 499 sqq. — Sur Bentham en Espagne, v. dans Borrow, The Bible in Spain, vol. II, p. 277 (cité par Louis Reyband, Études sur les réformateurs, tome II, Étude sur « les utilitaires et Jcrémie Bentham »), le curieux récit de la conversation de ce missionnaire protestant avec l'alcade de la petite ville de Corcuvion : l'alcade le salue comme a compatriote du grand Baintham, celui qui a inventé des lois pour tout l'univers, le plus universel génie que le monde ait produit ; un Solon, un Platon, et un Lope de Vega... Moi, tel que vous me voyez, simple alcade de Galice, je possède tous les écrits de Baintham sur ce rayon et les étudie jour et nuit. Mais quel livre Borrow porte-t-il sur lui ?. — Le Nouveau Testament — Ah ! ah! voilà qui est très singulier. Oui, je me rappelle... on dit que les Anglais estiment beaucoup ce livre. N'est-ce pas singulier que les compatriotes du grand Baintham fassent le moindre cas de ce vieux livre monacal ! » — Il est curieux de voir qu'à la même époque Cartwright devient populaire en Espagne : Life and Corr., vol. I, p. 359 (lettre à Materosa, 15 juin 1808), vol. II, p. 66 (lettre à Arguelles, 23 juillet 1813) ; et lettre à Thomas Northmore, 6 janvier 1823 : « I hâve lately had a good account from Spain. I am informed that a translation of my Bill of Rights and Liberties is in hand there. I wish they would correct their mode of electing members of the Cortes : their successive strainings, whereby there can be nothing more likely tban that in the end the représentative chosen by the very few who hâve the final straining, may be one whom a great majority of the collective body would not hâve elected.
14. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 432, 439, 444, 445. — Cf. The life and Urnes of Aaron Burr, lieutenant-colonel in the army of the Révolution, United States Senator, vice-président of the United States, etc., by James Parton, éd. de 1864, vol. I, p. 155. Burr étudie Gibbon, Godwin, Bentham. « At a time when the mère naine of the great apostle of utilitarianism was known only to half a dozen of the most intelligent minds on tins side of the Atlantic, colonel Burr was a reader of his works, and conceived for their author the highest opinion... Along with Burr, Albert Gai latin was a lover of Bentham ; and it is likely enough that Burr derived his firsd knowledge of Bentham through Gallatin. — Sur Gallatin, v. Bowring, vol. IV, pp. 453, 468 ; vol. X, pp. 433, 462-463. — Burr reviendra en Angleterre en 1811, où il sera l'hôte de Bentham et fera de la pro-
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pagahde pour lé système de Lancaster (pp. 226-227, 229-230). — V.
F. Horner, Mem. and Corr. vol. I. p. 464 : lettre à J.-A. Murray, esq.,
27oct. 1808: ... I am going to dine with Jeremy Bentham, and colonel
Burr, and ara very curious to see what sort of mixture will resuit from
putting together pure philosophy and Yankee treason.
15. Récit de la vie de Miranda, par James Mill, ap. Edinburgh Beview,
janv. 1809, art. II (cet article ; Lettre aux Espagnols-Américains par un de leurs compatriotes, et l'article de juillet 1809 : Molina's Account of, Chili, ont été écrits par James Mill avec des documents fournis par Miranda),
— V. Bain, p. 79. — Bowring, vol. X, pp. 457-458, 468, 487-488 ; vol. IX, p. 19 ; projet de canal interocéanique, repris par Bentham, vol. II, pp. 561 sqq. — Connaît Romilly depuis 1784 {Mémoires, vol. I, p. 84). — « a finished adventurer » (Brougham à lord Grey, 2 déc. 1808).
16. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 500 et 513 : lettre de Bentham non datée, 1820.
17. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 558-559: José del Valle à Bentham, 18 avril 1827 : The month of March just passed was one of delightful satisfaction to me. In it I received your letter and your books. They well filled my heart with joy. I recognise the affection which dictated the one, and the kindness which remitted the others. — In my library your works will hold the distinguished station to which the sage instructor of the legislators of the world is entitled. By their influence, I trust a happy révolution will be brought about among ail the nations of the earth. You hâve reared the science upon a fruitful principle — that of universal utility — giving lessons of addition and substraction
— of législative arithmetic — teaching the calculations of good and evil
— to group — to deduct — to obtain balances of pain and pleasure — and to form law with a view to the»greatest felicity.And having revolutionized the science of législation, you will revolutionize législative codes
— so that nations will hâve laws not the opprobrium, but the honour of reason — laws not the misfortune, but the happiness of man.
— For many a year 1 hâve felt that one of the greatest wants of America, of Guatemala, a beautiful portion of America, was the suppression of the Codes of Spain, and the introduction of others, worthy of the instruction of the âge, provided by the sages who hâve perfected the jurisprudential science ; et Bowring, XI, p. 17 : lettre du 19 mai 1829 ;
— pp. 48-49 : du 21 mai 1830; — p. 71 : du 3 août 1831.
18. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 5>2 sqq. ;\ol. XI, pp. 22, 28, 33. —Bowring, vol. XI, p. 33: D'après Bentham, la maison Bossange, qui édite les livres de Dumont, aurait vendu 40.000 volumes de Bentham dans l'Amérique du Sud (1830).
19. Colonel Ld ces ter Stanhope, Greece in 4823 and I8ïk : Benthaui's works are much admired on the Continent. The professor of law hère, Carminiani, is quite of his inind. At the Collège of Bologna npnc but
the Greeks and foreîgners are allowed to read this author (lettre écrite de Pise, le 5 nov. 1823). — Bowring, vol. X, p. 517.
