T h e C o l l e C T e d W o r k s o f J e r e m y B e n T h a m t h e Corresp ondenCe of Jeremy Ben T ham J a n u a r y 1 7 9 4 T o d e C e m B e r 1 7 9 7 v o l u m e 5 E d i t E d b y A l E x A n d E r t A y l o r M i l n E i the collected works of jeremy bentham General Editor J. R. Dinwiddy Correspondence Volume 5 ii iii The CORRESPONDENCE of JEREMY BENTHAM Volume 5 January 1794 to December 1797 edited by A L E X A N D E R T A Y L O R M I L N E i v This edition published in 2017 by UCL Press University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT First published in 1981 by The Athlone Press, University of London Available to download free: www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press Text © The Bentham Committee, UCL A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Alexander Taylor Milne (ed.), The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham , Vol.5: January 1794 to December 1797. The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham . Edited by J.R. Dinwiddy. London, UCL Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781911576211 Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ ISBN: 978–1–911576–23–5 (Hbk.) ISBN: 978–1–911576–22–8 (Pbk.) ISBN: 978–1–911576–21–1 (PDF) ISBN: 978–1–911576–24–2 (epub) ISBN: 978–1–911576–25–9 (mobi) ISBN: 978–1–911576–26–6 (html) DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781911576211 v PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION OF VOLUME 5 The fifth volume of Jeremy Bentham’s Correspondence was originally published, together with the fourth volume, in 1981, under the editor- ship of the late Alexander Taylor Milne and the General Editorship of the late J.R. Dinwiddy. The Correspondence volumes represent the ‘backbone’, so to speak, of the authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham , giving scholars the orientation that enables them to begin to make sense of Bentham’s published works and the vast collection of his unpublished papers, consisting of around 60,000 folios in UCL Library and 12,500 folios in the British Library. The present volume has been attractively re-keyed in a typeface that is sympathetic to the original design, and crucially the exact pagination of the original volume has been retained, so that referencing remains stable. The opportunity has been taken to incorporate corrections identified by the Bentham Project. All these corrections are relatively minor, except for the removal of Letter 1279. This letter was included in the present volume in the mistaken belief that it was dated 2 May 1797, whereas it is in fact dated 2 May 1798, and appears in its cor- rect place as Letter 1324 in the sixth volume of the Correspondence Professor Guillaume Tusseau (Sciences Po, Paris) has kindly checked the accuracy of the reproduction of the French material according to the conventions currently adopted in the edition as a whole. Thanks are also due to my Bentham Project colleague Dr Louise Seaward for assistance with a variety of queries throughout all five volumes. The letters in this volume, written against the background of an increasingly difficult and unsuccessful war against Revolutionary France, are dominated by Bentham’s attempts to further his panop- ticon prison scheme. After a certain amount of wrangling, an Act of Parliament was passed in the summer of 1794, giving the Treasury powers to enter into a contract for a profit-making prison. Crucially the Act did not stipulate the acquisition of the site at Battersea Rise that Bentham wanted. Bentham made strenuous efforts but ultimately failed to persuade the Treasury to buy the land at Battersea Rise, since they would not proceed against the wishes of the owner Earl Spencer, who did not want to give up his land for the sake of a prison. Searching for another site, Bentham was rebuffed by local landowners at Hanging Wood, Woolwich, before turning his attention to Tothill Fields, not far vi v i P R E F A C E T O T H E N E W E D I T I O N from his home at Queen’s Square Place. The whole sorry saga dragged on until he eventually acquired a site at Millbank in 1798, but the prison was destined never to be built. In the meantime Bentham’s brother Samuel, who was intimately involved in the practical aspects of the panopticon, was appointed Inspector-General of Naval Works, a post created for him, and which resulted in his introducing new machinery and a host of reforms into the working practices of the Royal dockyards. Samuel was responsi- ble to the First Lord of the Admiralty, who, ironically, was the same Earl Spencer who was thwarting the acquisition of Battersea Rise for the panopticon. An important family event took place on 26 October 1796 when Samuel married Mary Sophia Fordyce, with the newly-weds sharing Bentham’s house at Queen’s Square Place. The first of their five children, Mary Louisa, was born the following year. Samuel also fathered at least three illegitimate children. The Benthams’ step-brother Charles Abbot, the future Speaker of the House of Commons and first Baron Colchester, was enhancing his reputation as a Parliamentarian, and doing what he could to further the panopticon scheme. Other sup- port came from the social reformer William Wilberforce, with who Bentham came into close contact. At various points from 1796 to 1798 Bentham devoted a great deal of time to writing on the poor laws. Poor harvests in 1794 and 1795, together with the disruption caused by the war with France, had pro- duced a crisis in the administration of the poor laws, and led to the leader of the ministry William Pitt’s proposing what Bentham consid- ered to be an ill-conceived scheme of reform. Bentham produced an elaborate counter-proposal, which would have seen the construction of a countrywide network of 250 panopticon industry houses, each hold- ing up to 2,000 paupers, and administered by a joint-stock company. Bentham’s essays on the subject have appeared in the Collected Works as Writings on the Poor Laws: Volume I and Volume II , both edited by Michael Quinn, and published in 2001 and 2010 respectively. While never implemented in the form that Bentham envisaged, his ideas even- tually formed the basis of the New Poor Law introduced in 1834. While Bentham’s career appeared to be mired down in the panop- ticon, he maintained his friendship with such figures as the Marquis of Lansdowne, James Trail, George Wilson, and Samuel Romilly, and made contact with Sir John Sinclair and Arthur Young at the Board of Agriculture. Of most significance perhaps, Bentham’s literary relation- ship with the Genevan Etienne Dumont began to bear fruit as the latter inserted a series of translations of Bentham’s work in the Bibliothèque vii v i i britannique which heralded the publication in 1802 of Traités de lég- islation civile et pénale , the work that established Bentham’s reputa- tion as a philosopher and reformer. A more detailed account of Bentham’s activities during the years covered by this volume appears at the beginning of the fourth volume of Correspondence Philip Schofield General Editor of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham UCL, March 2017 P R E F A C E T O T H E N E W E D I T I O N v i i i i ix CONTENTS List of Letters in Volume 5 x A List of Missing Letters xix Key to Symbols and Abbreviations xxi THE CORRESPONDENCE January 1794–December 1797 1 Index 391 The editor’s Preface and Introduction to Volumes 4 and 5 of The Correspondence appear in Volume 4 x x lIst of letters In VolUme 5 Letter Page 937 To Samuel Bentham 5 January 1794 1 938 To Samuel Bentham 7 January 1794 2 939 To Samuel Bentham 9 January 1794 2 940 To Samuel Bentham 14 January 1794 3 941 To Archbishop Markham and to Earl Spencer 14 January 1794 4 942 From David Gray 15 January 1794 5 943 To Samuel Bentham 30 January 1794 11 944 From James Trail 1 February 1794 12 945 To Samuel Bentham 7 February 1794 13 946 To Samuel Bentham 9 February 1794 15 947 To Samuel Bentham 14 February 1794 15 948 To Mr Pease 19 February 1794 16 949 To Samuel Bentham 21 February 1794 16 950 To Samuel Bentham 22 February 1794 17 951 From Samuel Romilly 9 March 1794 17 952 From William Wickham 9 March 1794 18 953 To Evan Nepean 21 March 1794 19 954 To Evan Nepean 30 March 1794 22 955 To Sir Charles Bunbury 7 April 1794 25 956 To Evan Nepean 13 April 1794 26 957 To Charles Abbot 15 April 1794 27 958 To Charles Long 21 April 1794 29 959 To Evan Nepean 22 April 1794 30 960 To William Bentham and William Cruse 22 April 1794 31 961 From Sir Charles Bunbury 24 April 1794 32 962 From Charles Long 6 May 1794 32 963 From Etienne Dumont 8 May 1794 33 964 To Henry Dundas 7 June 1794 33 965 To Archbishop Markham 9 June 1794 34 966 To Bishop Warren 10 June 1794 36 967 To the Duke of Dorset 10 June 1794 36 968 From Bishop Warren 10 June 1794 37 969 To Evan Nepean 11 June 1794 37 970 To Samuel Bentham 12 June 1794 38 971 From the Duke of Dorset 13 June 1794 40 972 From the Earl of Warwick 14 June 1794 40 973 From the Duke of Dorset 15 June 1794 41 974 From Sir Charles Bunbury 15 June 1794 41 xi x i L I S T O F L E T T E R S I N V O L U M E 5 Letter Page 975 To Samuel Bentham c. 15 June 1794 42 976 To Samuel Bentham 17 June 1794 43 977 From Sir Charles Bunbury 17 June 1794 45 978 To Evan Nepean 18 June 1794 46 979 From Archbishop Markham 22 June 1794 47 980 To Samuel Bentham 22 June 1794 48 981 To the Marquis of Lansdowne 26 June 1794 49 982 From Samuel Romilly 27 June 1794 49 983 From Etienne Dumont July 1794 50 984 To Samuel Bentham 1 August 1794 51 985 To Samuel Bentham 2 August 1794 52 986 From Sir John Sinclair 10 August 1794 53 987 To William Pulteney 15 August 1794 53 988 To Henry Dundas 16 August 1794 54 989 To the Lords of the Treasury 16 August 1794 67 990 To Samuel Bentham 20 August 1794 69 991 To Samuel Bentham 21 August 1794 70 992 To Evan Nepean 26 August 1794 71 993 To Samuel Bentham 4 September 1794 72 994 To Samuel Bentham 9 September 1794 72 995 From Sir John Sinclair 10 September 1794 73 996 From Philip Metcalfe 12 September 1794 74 997 To Philip Metcalfe 14 September 1794 74 998 From Henry Dundas 21 September 1794 77 999 From Charles Long 25 September 1794 78 1000 From Samuel Bentham 25 September 1794 80 1001 To Henry Dundas 25 September 1794 81 1002 To Henry Dundas 26 September 1794 82 1003 To Charles Long 26 September 1794 83 1004 To Samuel Bentham 26 September 1794 84 1005 To Arthur Young c. 26 September 1794 85 1006 From Samuel Romilly 28 September 1794 87 1007 To Arthur Young 30 September 1794 88 1008 To Charles Long 1 October 1794 88 1009 From William Garthshore 4 October 1794 89 1010 From Arthur Young 5 October 1794 89 1011 To Samuel Bentham 7 October 1794 90 1012 To Henry Dundas 7 October 1794 91 1013 From Arthur Young 10 October 1794 92 1014 To Charles Long 13 October 1794 92 1015 To Samuel Bentham 14 October 1794 94 1016 To Samuel Bentham 16 October 1794 95 1017 From James Trail 23 October 1794 95 1018 To Samuel Bentham 25 October 1794 97 1019 From Samuel Bentham 27 October 1794 97 xii x i i L I S T O F L E T T E R S I N V O L U M E 5 Letter Page 1020 To Henry Dundas 31 October 1794 99 1021 To Samuel Bentham 2 November 1794 100 1022 To Samuel Bentham 11 November 1794 101 1023 a To Samuel Bentham 15 November 1794 102 1023 b To Samuel Bentham 15 November 1794 104 1024 From Etienne Dumont November 1794 105 1025 To Henry Dundas 1 December 1794 106 1026 From François D’lvernois c. 3 December 1794 107 1027 To Baron St Helens 5 December 1794 107 1028 To the Marquis of Lansdowne 11 December 1794 109 1029 From the Marquis of Lansdowne 12 December 1794 110 1030 To Samuel Bentham 8[?] January 1795 110 1031 To Henry Dundas 12 January 1795 111 1032 From François D’lvernois 26 January 1795 112 1033 From William Wilberforce 27 January 1795 112 1034 To Viscount Sydney 3 or 4 February 1795 113 1035 To Charles Long 5 February 1795 114 1036 From Thomas Osbert Mordaunt 6 February 1795 115 1037 To Evan Nepean 6 February 1795 115 1038 To Charles Long 9 February 1795 116 1039 To Charles Long 9 February 1795 116 1040 To Samuel Bentham 10 February 1795 117 1041 To Henry Dundas 10 February 1795 118 1042 To Henry Dundas 12 February 1795 119 1043 From Thomas Osbert Mordaunt 26 February 1795 120 1044 To the Marquis of Lansdowne 6 March 1795 120 1045 To Henry Dundas 6 March 1795 123 1046 From Mr Scott 23 March 1795 123 1047 To the Marquis of Lansdowne 26 March 1795 124 1048 From the Marquis of Lansdowne 27 March 1795 125 1049 To Henry Dundas 27 March 1795 126 1050 From Samuel Bentham 31 March 1795 126 1051 To Samuel Bentham 3 April 1795 127 1052 From Etienne Dumont 3 April 1795 127 1053 To John Jay 8 April 1795 128 1054 From Sir John Parnell 10 April 1795 130 1055 From Etienne Dumont 15 April 1795 131 1056 From Sir John Parnell 16 April 1795 131 1057 From William Wilberforce 17 April 1795 132 1058 To Evan Nepean 24 April 1795 133 1059 To Charles Long 24 April 1795 133 1060 From William Wilberforce 24[?] April 1795 134 1061 From William Wilberforce 5 May 1795 134 1062 From George Wilson 5 May 1795 135 1063 To Samuel Bentham 9 May 1795 136 xiii x i i i L I S T O F L E T T E R S I N V O L U M E 5 Letter Page 1064 To Samuel Bentham 12 May 1795 136 1065 To Samuel Bentham 14 May 1795 137 1066 To Samuel Bentham 15 May 1795 138 1067 To Henry Dundas 1 June 1795 139 1068 From Richard Ford 16 June 1795 140 1069 To Richard Ford 17 June 1795 141 1070 To Richard Ford 23 June 1795 141 1071 From Sir Charles Bunbury 10 July 1795 142 1072 From Richard Ford 10 July 1795 143 1073 From Sir Charles Bunbury 12 July 1795 143 1074 To Evan Nepean 13 July 1795 144 1075 From the Due de La Rochefoucauld- Liancourt [?] July 1795 145 1076 To Charles Long 8 August 1795 145 1077 To Charles Long 8 August 1795 146 1078 To Charles Long 8 August 1795 147 1079 To Joseph White 3 September 1795 151 1080 To Samuel Bentham 17 September 1795 152 1081 To Samuel Bentham 23 September 1795 153 1082 From Samuel Bentham September 1795 153 1083 From Lord Wycombe 2, 5 October 1795 154 1084 To Sir John Freeman Mitford 8 October 1795 157 1085 To the Due de La Rochefoucauld- Liancourt 11 October 1795 159 1086 From Sir John Freeman Mitford 14 October 1795 162 1087 From Sir John Freeman Mitford 25 October 1795 162 1088 To Samuel Bentham 2 November 1795 163 1089 From John Heide Koe to Samuel Bentham 9 November 1795 164 1090 From Baron St Helens 27 November 1795 165 1091 From Count Rumford 10 December 1795 166 1092 From Baron St Helens 24 December 1795 166 1093 From Baron St Helens 27 December 1795 167 1094 From Sir John Freeman Mitford 31 December 1795 168 1095 To Sir John Freeman Mitford 31 December 1795 168 1096 To Charles Long 1 January 1796 169 1097 To Samuel Bentham 5 January 1796 171 1098 To Samuel Bentham 6 January 1796 172 1099 To Samuel Bentham 8, 9 January 1796 173 1100 To Sir John Scott 11 January 1796 174 1101 To Samuel Bentham c. 12 January 1796 176 1102 To Samuel Bentham 14 January 1796 178 1103 To Samuel Bentham 21 January 1796 178 1104 To Sir John Scott 22 January 1796 180 1105 From Sir John Scott 22 January 1796 180 xiv x i v L I S T O F L E T T E R S I N V O L U M E 5 Letter Page 1106 To Charles Long 23 January 1796 181 1107 To the Marquis of Lansdowne 9 February 1796 182 1108 To Samuel Bentham 10 February 1796 185 1109 To Samuel Bentham 20 February 1796 186 1110 To Samuel Bentham 24 February 1796 187 1111 To William Pitt 28 February 1796 188 1112 To William Morton Pitt 1 March 1796 189 1113 From William Wilberforce 2 March 1796 190 1114 To Sir John Freeman Mitford 3 March 1796 190 1115 To Sir John Scott 3 March 1796 191 1116 From Sir John Freeman Mitford 4 March 1796 191 1117 Memorandum by Jeremy Bentham 6 March 1796 191 1118 To William Wilberforce 8 March 1796 193 1119 To William Wilberforce 24 March 1796 194 1120 From the Marquis of Lansdowne 4 April 1796 194 1121 To Earl Spencer 18 April 1796 195 1122 To Evan Nepean c. 19 April 1796 197 1123 From Sir Charles Bunbury 20 April 1796 198 1124 To Sir Francis Buller 21 April 1796 198 1125 From Etienne Dumont 23 April 1796 200 1126 From William Morton Pitt 29 April 1796 201 1127 To Earl Spencer 3 May 1796 202 1128 From George Rose 3 May 1796 202 1129 To Charles Abbot 4 May 1796 202 1130 From Thomas Powys 21 May 1796 203 1131 To Samuel Bentham 24 May 1796 204 1132 To Earl Spencer 24 May 1796 205 1133 To Samuel Bentham 25 May 1796 205 1134 Memorandum by Jeremy Bentham 26 May 1796 207 1135 To Samuel Bentham 27 May 1796 207 1136 To William Wilberforce c. 28 May 1796 210 1137 To Samuel Bentham 30 May 1796 212 1138 From Baron St Helens 1 June 1796 213 1139 To Earl Spencer 4 June 1796 214 1140 From John Harrison 5 June 1796 214 1141 To Thomas Harrison 15 June 1796 215 1142 From Thomas Harrison 17 June 1796 217 1143 To Samuel Bentham 21 June 1796 218 1144 To Earl Spencer 23 June 1796 219 1145 From Earl Spencer 30 June 1796 221 1146 To Samuel Bentham 2 July 1796 221 1147 To the Marquis of Lansdowne c. 3 July 1796 223 1148 To Caroline Fox 3 July 1796 224 1149 To J.P. 9 July 1796 225 xv x v L I S T O F L E T T E R S I N V O L U M E 5 Letter Page 1150 From Count Rumford 10 July 1796 227 1151 To Earl Spencer 14 July 1796 228 1152 To Charles Long 16 July 1796 230 1153 To Earl Spencer 19 July 1796 232 1154 From the Marquis of Lansdowne 25 July 1796 233 1155 To Evan Nepean 29 July 1796 234 1156 To Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson 30 July 1796 235 1157 To Charles Long 4 August 1796 237 1158 From the Countess of Elgin 6 August 1796 239 1159 To Joseph White 10 August 1796 240 1160 From Baron Arden 10 August 1796 241 1161 To Baron Arden 11 August 1796 242 1162 To Samuel Bentham 13 August 1796 243 1163 To Charles Long 14 August 1796 243 1164 To Samuel Bentham 15 August 1796 244 1165 To Charles Long 19 August 1796 245 1166 To Henry Dundas 21 August 1796 245 1167 To Earl Spencer 26 August 1796 246 1168 From Earl Spencer 29 August 1796 247 1169 To John Stride 29 August 1796 248 1170 From John Stride 30 August 1796 251 1171 To William Wilberforce 1 September 1796 252 1172 To John Stride 2 September 1796 258 1173 From William Wilberforce 3 September 1796 259 1174 To Charles Long 5 September 1796 259 1175 To William Wilberforce 6 September 1796 261 1176 To Samuel Bentham 7 September 1796 262 1177 From Baron St Helens 10 September 1796 265 1178 To Samuel Bentham 10 September 1796 267 1179 From Samuel Bentham 11 September 1796 268 1180 To Samuel Bentham 12 September 1796 268 1181 To Baron St Helens c. 12–13 September 1796 271 1182 From Samuel Bentham 13 September 1796 272 1183 To Samuel Bentham 13–15 September 1796 273 1184 To Samuel Bentham 30 September 1796 275 1185 To Samuel Bentham 1 October 1796 276 1186 To Samuel Bentham 3 October 1796 277 1187 To Samuel Bentham 5 October 1796 278 1188 To Samuel Bentham 7 October 1796 280 1189 To William Wilberforce 18 October 1796 281 1190 From William Wilberforce 18 October 1796 281 1191 To William Wilberforce 19 October 1796 282 1192 To William Wilberforce 20 October 1796 282 1193 To Edmund Estcourt 21 October 1796 282 1194 To Samuel Bentham 27 October 1796 284 xvi x v i L I S T O F L E T T E R S I N V O L U M E 5 Letter Page 1195 From William Wilberforce 28 October 1796 285 1196 To Samuel Bentham 29 October 1796 285 1197 To Jonathan White 29 October 1796 288 1198 From Jonathan White 29 October 1796 288 1199 To Bishop Samuel Horsley 31 October 1796 289 1200 From Edmund Estcourt 1 November 1796 294 1201 To Mrs Mary Sophia Bentham 2 November 1796 294 1202 From Charles Abbot 3 November 1796 296 1203 From William Wilberforce 5 November 1796 296 1204 From Charles Abbot 8 November 1796 297 1205 From William Wilberforce 8 November 1796 297 1206 From Charles Abbot 14 November 1796 297 1207 To William Wilberforce 14 November 1796 298 1208 From Mr Atwood 15 November 1796 299 1209 From Charles Abbot 15 November 1796 300 1210 To Samuel Bentham 15 November 1796 300 1211 To George Rose 16 November 1796 301 1212 From Charles Abbot 18 November 1796 305 1213 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 18 November 1796 305 1214 To William Wilberforce 19 November 1796 307 1215 To Samuel Bentham 19 November 1796 308 1216 From William Wilberforce 21 November 1796 309 1217 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 22 November 1796 310 1218 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 23 November 1796 312 1219 To Samuel Bentham 25 November 1796 314 1220 To Samuel Bentham 26 November 1796 315 1221 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 28 November 1796 316 1222 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 28 November 1796 317 1223 To Bishop Horsley 29 November 1796 318 1224 To Bishop Horsley 30 November 1796 318 1225 From George Rose 30 November 1796 320 1226 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 30 November 1796 320 1227 To Samuel Bentham 1 December 1796 321 1228 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 2 December 1796 322 1229 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 3 December 1796 324 1230 From Patrick Colquhoun 4 December 1796 325 1231 From William Lowndes 4 December 1796 326 xvii x v i i L I S T O F L E T T E R S I N V O L U M E 5 Letter Page 1232 To Patrick Colquhoun 6 December 1796 326 1233 To Samuel Bentham 6 December 1796 327 1234 To Samuel Bentham 9 December 1796 328 1235 To Samuel Bentham 10 December 1796 330 1236 From Patrick Colquhoun 10 December 1796 332 1237 To Edmund Estcourt 12 December 1796 333 1238 To Samuel Bentham 13 December 1796 334 1239 From Charles Abbot 15 December 1796 337 1240 To Samuel Bentham 16 December 1796 338 1241 From Patrick Colquhoun 16 December 1796 339 1242 From William Wilberforce 17[?] December 1796 341 1243 To William Wilberforce 17 December 1796 341 1244 To Samuel Bentham 19 December 1796 342 1245 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 20 December 1796 343 1246 To Samuel and Mary Sophia Bentham 22 December 1796 344 1247 From J. A. Alexander 22 December 1796 345 1248 From Charles Abbot 23 December 1796 345 1249 From Charles Abbot 24 December 1796 346 1250 From James Paine 26 December 1796 346 1251 From William Lowndes 27 December 1796 347 1252 To George Rose 29 December 1796 347 1253 From Patrick Colquhoun 31 December 1796 349 1254 To Sir John Scott 3 January 1797 350 1255 To Sir John Scott 6 January 1797 351 1256 To Sir John Freeman Mitford 6 January 1797 351 1257 To William Baldwin 13 January 1797 352 1258 From William Baldwin 14 January 1797 352 1259 From Patrick Colquhoun 20 January 1797 353 1260 From William Baldwin 23 January 1797 355 1261 From Alexander Peter Buchan 1 February 1797 355 1262 From Baron St Helens 6 February 1797 356 1263 From William Robertson 10 February 1797 356 1264 From Alexander Peter Buchan 11 February 1797 357 1265 From George Rose 11 February 1797 358 1266 To Sir Frederick Morton Eden 13 February 1797 358 1267 To William Wilberforce 28 February 1797 359 1268 To William Wilberforce 6 March 1797 360 1269 From Arthur Young 21 March 1797 360 1270 To Sir John Freeman Mitford 25 March 1797 361 1271 To William Mitford 25 March 1797 361 1272 From Sir John Freeman Mitford 27 March 1797 362 1273 To Sir John Scott 30 March 1797 363 1274 To Sir John Freeman Mitford 30 March 1797 364 xviii x v i i i L I S T O F L E T T E R S I N V O L U M E 5 Letter Page 1275 From Arthur Young 2 April 1797 365 1276 From Samuel Romilly 26 April 1797 365 1277 From Samuel Romilly 1 May 1797 366 1278 From Charles Butler 1 May 1797 366 1280 From Samuel Romilly 19 May 1797 367 1281 To George Rose 22 June 1797 368 1282 From Sir John Sinclair 5 July 1797 369 1283 To Sir John Sinclair 13 July 1797 370 1284 From Arthur Young July 1797 371 1285 From Samuel Romilly 4 September 1797 372 1286 To Caroline Fox 5 September 1797 373 1287 To George Rose 7 September 1797 373 1288 To Samuel Parr c. 7 September 1797 374 1289 To Arthur Young 8 September 1797 375 1290 To Arthur Young [?] September 1797 378 1291 To a Society September 1797 380 1292 From Martha Young 17 October 1797 381 1293 From Edmund Malone 26 October 1797 382 1294 To Richard Clark 27 October 1797 383 1295 From Arthur Young 31 October 1797 383 1296 From Richard Clark 31 October 1797 384 1297 From Arthur Young 1 November 1797 385 1298 From Arthur Young 2 November 1797 385 1299 From William Morton Pitt 18 November 1797 386 1300 To George Rose 24 November 1797 386 1301 From Arthur Young 4 December 1797 388 1302 From Sir Frederick Morton Eden 13 December 1797 388 1303 From Samuel Romilly 14 December 1797 389 1304 To Sir Frederick Morton Eden c. 17 December 1797 389 1305 From Sir Frederick Morton Eden 18 December 1797 390 x i xix mIssInG letters of jeremy bentham referred to In the corresPondence January 1794 to December 1797 1794 Letter To – Pollard 14 January 941 To Lady Baring c. 20 February 949 To Samuel Romilly [?] early March 951 To Charles Abbot 14 April 957 To Sir Charles Bunbury c. 16 June 977 To William Pitt and Henry Dundas c. 20 June 980 To Sir John Hort c. 2 August 985 To Sir John Sinclair early September 995 To Samuel Romilly late September 1006 To Charles Long early October 1008 To Arthur Young early October 1013 To John Peake c. 7 October 1011 To James Trail mid- October 1017 To Samuel Bentham 25 October 1018 and n. 2 To James Trail 25 October [?] 1795 1018 and n. 4 To Lady Ashburton c. 24 March 1047 To Samuel Bentham c. 30 March 1050 and n. 1 To Samuel Bentham September 1082 and n. 1 To Sir John Freeman Mitford 18 October 1086 and n. 1 To Baron St Helens November 1090 To Count Rumford early December 1091 To Baron St Helens c. 22 December 1092 To Baron St Helens 26 December 1093 1796 To Samuel Bentham 23 February 1110 To the Marquis of Lansdowne c. 3 April 1120 and n. 2 To Sir Charles Bunbury c. 18 April 1123 and n. 2 To Thomas Powys early May 1130 and n. 1 To Baron St Helens [?] late May 1138 and n. 2 To the Marquis of Lansdowne early July 1147 To Caroline Fox early July 1148 and n. 4 To Count Rumford early July 1150 To Baron St Helens early September 1177 and n. 2 To Samuel Bentham 9 September 1178 and n. 3 To ‘The Cat’ October 1196 and n. 8