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1820 Oct. 29 Emancipation Spanish
1820 Oct. 29

Emancipation Spanish

'. 11. Particular interests adverse

J.B. [...?] in France

 Omitted one of Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria

Reference to Jeremy Bentham on the case of France as declared in a pamphlet

intituled Emancipate Your Colonies even as yet (A o 1820)

My friends even in those days I was not latogether unknown in France. As a Candidate

for the function of legislative draughtsman in the matter of Judicial Establishment,

the Judiciary they call it in the United States
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    '. 6. J.B.'s Opinion 1792

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