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Reference Number BENTHAM/13/1-142
TitleCorrespondence-Spain
Date1818-1820
DescriptionMiscellaneous (items 1-5)
Samuel Bentham to Jeremy Bentham. Montauban Mendoza's translation of Traitea. Notes in Jeremy Bentham's hand. 4 December 1818
Decree of the General Cortes for the extinction of the Carthusian, Bernardins, Benedictins, the monks of St Basil and all other religious orders. Spanish and English copy, with note to Jeremy Bentham from translator. 17 April/October 1820

Blaquiere (items 6-9)
Blaquiere, Madrid, to Bentham. 10 July 1820. Spanish news.
Bentham to Edw. Bell, Esq. Bordeaux, to be communicated to Edward Blaquiere, Esq. Correspondence interferred with. 5 August/September 1820
Blaquiere to Bentham on suppression of Jesuits in Spain. 3 September 1820
Blaquiere to Bentham on Spanish colonies. 22 August 1820
Blaquiere was in touch with liberal affairs and the press in Spain.


Mora (items 10-35)
In answer to Mora.
Jury trial.
Liberty of press prescribed as if for Code.
Mora's question to Bentham through Blaquiere, viz. 1, on jury trial, 2, on the necessity of codification on principles entirely new without regard for former ones.
Publicity in judicature. 15-30 September 1820

Mora (items 36-74)
J Bentham to Mora, private. Disheartened by Spanish news. 1, 6 November 1820
J Bentham to Mora. Bill passed in house. 7 November 1820
J Bentham to Mora. Private. Practical Facienda, Guard of Cortes, etc. 20 November 1820
J Bentham to Jose Joaquin de Mora, Madrid on codification of laws. 13 November 1820
J Bentham to Mora. Progress of Radical reform in England. Edinburgh.
Rev and Quarterly affected by JB. 15 November 1820

Toreno (items 75-85)
Matter for a letter proposed to be written by Mr Bowring on behalf of Mr Bentham to Count Toreno, member of the Spanish Cortes, and employed by him in a letter (in Spanish) sent from QSP addressed to Mr Bowring's Agent at Vitoria in Spain, Don Adam Weidman, 28 November 1820
Objecting to a committee for codifying laws as awkward and unwieldy.

Mora (items 86-122)
Jeremy Bentham to Mora about Samuel Bentham.Value SB might have for Spain. 16, 18 November 1820.
JB to Mora. Money support to liberal press discussed. 18, 20, 23, 24 November 1820
JB to Mora and JB through Weidman to Mora. News of politics in England and South America. 27 November, 1 December 1820.
JB to Mora. Letter the last. Letters have been intercepted by the espionage system. 8 June 1821

Blaquiere (items 123-142)
Extent142 items
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsSee index in 'Catalogue of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham in the Library of University College London' compiled by A Taylor Milne (The Athlone Press, University of London, 2nd edition, 1962).
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