février 1831 ; Bowring, vol. XI, p

25. Hazlitt {Spirit ofthe Age, 1824, p. 1) peut encore écrire : Mr. Bentham is one of those persons who verify the old adage, that « A prophet has no honour, except out of his own country » ... His name is little known in England, better in Europe, best of ail in the plains of Chili and the mines of Mexico. He has offered constitutions for the. New World, and legislated for future times... Mr. Hobhouse is a greater man at the hustings, Lord Rolle at Plymouth Dock; but Mr. Bentham would carry it hollow, on the score of popularity, at Paris or Pegu.

26. Romilly à Dumunt, 31 mai 1803 : Anne told you, I believe, that

notes. 393

there i? no mention of von in Ibe Ihird nnmber of Ibe Edintmrgh fleview 1 don't thiuk tou hav.' mit reason lo be surry, unités von iliiuk il would be of use lo your book to hâve il abused. The Ertiiors seem to vain* themselves principally n>*n Uieir wrerity. — FrancisHorner. Nentoiit mid CorresnoniotT, vol. I. pp. 236-KT7 : Le.Iter lo Thomas Thomson, esq., Loodon. 15 th Augnsl, 1803 : « I bope 1 «m not mistaken in inferrin? from your leiter. thaï yon bave se.1 your self doçcedly to an analv-sis and triiicism of Dnmont's publication. It will eost von some tronHe; but il is i noble subjecl. Dumonl himself has beun vi-ry ansious, I nnderstand, to see il noliced by ns : and indeed il sli.iuld hâve made ils appearance earlier. The work does not seem lo hâve bef n miich rvad, or lo bave eïcited mneh attention, even in tlial small classof petsons la vbotn sucb allempts are inleresling. KinthauTs name is répulsive.

27. Ed. fler., avril 180t. an. I. — Larti.Ie conclut : X,.iwïih-mndinit ail thaï Mr. Duniunl lias doue lo rendcr the work tiopular, ne an- aliaid Ibal il «il) hâve fc-wer readers. lhan il deserves. Tliuse wlio do read il, will also dissent, we should imapne. from manv of the anthor's fundamental principles: bot ihey will infaltihly be dclichled wilh ihesaptrity and independencc which dtsl iiiL-ui-hes ail lus s]«-rulal iuns. and will look fornard wilh impalienee lo ihe publication uf his entire sysiem.

3«. Bowrin;:, vol. X, p. 415. Dumonl à Rentham : Romitlv lells me. after having seen somebody «ho has read the article in Ibe Ediiilnirgh fterieir, lhal the boofc — the book of Iwoks — lias been trealod Ibère vvilb seaudatons irreverriif* : and fur Ihe resl. afler havitiç been well iha-tised. vvell piilled up, well liumilialed f.>r uur tau Ils and iin errors. w sliall bave Ibe advantage of being tln<n<ut;l>tv irtsl roded in milliers of législation, since tbe*e t'enllrmen — dissatislied as ihey are wilh us — will, iluiibllessly, teaeb us to do hclter. I am charmed lliai ibe lessons of the^e vouni; people bave <*>mi- in lime lo |ire\eitl me from conlinuing my folli.-s. 1

only just wail to read what Iher say, b-fi.re I Ihron ail jour J1SS. i

tlie' fire. Wliat remains of life will' Le Iranquill. Hall, injâh : I s h.ill Lave DOIhing 1.1 do '.

29. Ed. ««,«., janv. ISt^T : B.-Dihani eilé avec éloge; on émei le wn qu'il s'occupe de la question. — L'auteur de l'article es-l Jeffrej il'uio^nli BenihamJOfév. 180T; Bowring, vol. X, p. iîi.— Bonring:pp. iil-*i5. 43 ; correspondance avei'Romilly. — Srotrh fîe/orm ; eonsidciv.1 wilh ref>reneeto ihe l'Ian propusuliii llielalerailiameiil, for ibe Régulation uf the Courts and Ibe Ad uii ni si rat ion uf Justice in Scoiland : wilh llliistrulîons Iront EnglUh Non-Refunn : in the L'ourse of wliirli diver> liiip.-rle-'tioiis. Abuses, and Corrupliens, ni Ihe Adminislraliuii of Jn^liiv, willl llieir causes, are now for llie lirai lime bruuiilit to ligbt. In a «ries of lelters adressed lo the Hitilit Hunonrable Lonl Gn-nville. et... *., elc. Wilh Tables, in whjcii Uie principal causes uf lacliliuus Cuuiplicaliun, Dclay,

Vexation, and Expense, are distînguished from such as are nat ural and unavoidable. — V. Ann. Reg. y 1807, p. 148 sqq.