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This book brings together the articles of J.R. Dinwiddy to show
both the coherence and importance of his contribution to British
history in this period. His work covers the spectrum of political
activity and thought from the Whigs to the Luddites and from Burke
via Bentham to Marx.
This is the seventh volume of Bentham's Correspondence, and nearly
three-quarters of the letters included in it have not been
published before. In 1802 Bentham started to acquire an
international reputation through the publication of his Traites de
legislation civile et penale. The correspondence contains
information about the numerous last-minute revisions which Bentham
suggested, about early reactions to the work, and about its
translation into Russian. When, in 1802 - 3, Bentham failed in his
attempt to get his Panopticon penitentiary project implemented by
the government, he turned his attention to adjective law, writing
extensively about evidence and procedure, and in 1808 he published
a substantial pamphlet on the reform of the Scottish judicature.
Exchanges of letters with Sir Samuel Romilly, Francis Horner and
others throw some light on the composition of these works and also
illuminate aspects of his personal life: his relationships with his
brother Samuel, with his Genevan editor Etienne Dumont, with Lord
Holland's sister Caroline Fox, to whom he proposed marriage in
1805, and with Aaron Burr, adventurer and former vice-president of
the United States, who formed a close friendship with him in 1808.
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