ID 1109078
Lot 278 | Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Valeur estimée
£ 10 000 – 15 000
Seven autograph letters to [William Petty, the Marquess of Lansdowne], Dover Street and Queen’s Square Place, 20 December 1791- 11 September 1792
22 pages in total, 230 x 190mm, Shelburne pagination. Provenance: Marquesses of Lansdowne; their sale, Christie’s, Bowood House sale, 12 October 1994, lot 5.
A series of letters to the Marquess of Lansdowne on the French Revolution, prison reform and other matters. 1) 20 December 1791, 4 pages: asking to borrow the Moniteur Universel for news from France, for Bentham has heard of events in the National Assembly of 13 December, describing an unsatisfactory meeting with ?Robert Hobart [later 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire] to discuss the Panopticon, comprising false promises of its promulgation in Ireland and the manufacture of a model, as well as the extraordinary costs of transportation from Ireland to Botany Bay; 2) 4 April 1792, 2 pages: describing his financial arrangements with Lady Ashburton, who was going to lease his father’s house at Queen’s Square Place (‘an event of a nature so liable to produce disunion promises to insure an intimacy much closer than before between the two families’); 3) 9 August 1792, 4 pages: ‘Poor France turned into a Bedlam! Yet I am almost tempted to take a peep into one of the cells’, most notably on his plans for prison reform: ‘The next project I present to Administration either here or in Ireland, shall be a scheme for employing £120 a year a head in colonization instead of £60, or introducing into jails some vice that nobody as yet knows of, or destroying one half of the prisoners and letting the other half go loose’; 4) 12 August 1792, 5 pages: ‘It is all over with the poor Poles’, discussing King Stanislaw Poniatowski’s defence of Poland against the invasion of the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great, also his acquisition of a cottage at Christchurch; 5) 3 September 1792, 4 pages: ‘O the tyranny of Aristocracy! Give it a furlong, it will take a mile— a Veto kept me once from Brussels: and now comes a Lettre de Cachet ordering me to Paris’, presumably in response to a lost letter from Lansdowne suggesting that he might go to Paris as an envoy; 6) 5 September 1792, 2 pages: on events in Paris, referring to the condemnation in the National Assembly of the Commune and its Vigilance committee responsible for the September massacres; 7) 10 September 1792, one page: ‘Melancholy news! my dear Lord— by and by there will not be a single honest man left in that accursed country. Liancourt was to have dined here— instead of him comes a note from him that Rochefoucault is murdered. This is enough I doubt to spoil your dinner as it has ours’.
Published: Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 4.
| Artiste: | Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre |
| Artiste: | Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) |
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| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre |
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