SoPTHERATIONALE OF PUNISHMENT.BYBENTHAM,JEREMYLONDON:-HEWARD,BY ROBERTPUBLISHEDSTRAND. f^O sWELLINGTON STREET,MDCCCXXX.<>-/LONDON :PRINTED BY C. W.AND REYNELL,Broad GoldenStreet, Square.ADVERTISEMENT.THE account is M. Dumontfollowing given byof his with to thelabours, two volumesrespecthim atpublished Paris in under the titleby 1811,of Theorie des Peines et des Of thisRecompenses.threework, editions have been in France,printedand one in England."When I in Paris in 1802 Les Traitespublishedde Civile et in threeLegislation Penale, Ivolumes,announced other works of the same which Ikind,in the samehad, extracted from themanner, manuof Mr butscripts which were notBentham, thenfor theready press."Success has labours : threeencouraged mythousand were distributed morecopies rapidlythan I had dared to would be the case withhopethe first work of a but little knownforeign author,the continent. Iupon have reason also to thinkADVERTISEMENT.not beenit hasworkas this is,that all recentbeensince it has frequentlywithout its influence,toin official relatingcompositionsmanyquotedcodes.civil or criminal" these newwhichButcircumstances preventedofsame coursethefromvolumes entering uponcooledsometimeshavetheascirculation precedingthehaveI should resignedand willinglyzeal,myif the authortask I had myself,uponimposedhimself.ithave undertaken Unhappily,wouldand if thesedo asso to ever,as littlehe is disposedIdress ...
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