ing South American
ideas is unknown to me. In the United States he had many disciples of a
more creditable kind than Burr. He appealed in 1811 to Madison, then
President, for permission to construct a 'Pannomion' or complete body of
law, for the use of the United States; and urged his claims both upon
Madison and the Governor of Pennsylvania in 1817, when peace had been
restored. He had many conversations upon this project with John Quincy
Adams, who was then American minister in England.[322] This, of course,
came to nothing, but an eminent American disciple, Edward Livingston
(1764-1836), between 1820 and 1830 prepared codes for the State of
Louisiana, and warmly acknowledged his obligations to Bentham.[323] In
1830 Bentham also acknowledges a notice of his labours, probably
resulting from this, which had been made in one of General Jackson's
presidential messages.[324] In his later years the United States became
his ideal, and he never tired of comparing its cheap and honest
enactment with the corruption and extravagance at home.

NOTES:

[291] _Works_, x. 403.

[292] _Ibid._ x. 62.

[293] Bentham had himself written some of his papers in French.

[294] _Works_, x. 407, 410, 413, 419.

[295] _Ibid._ x. 415.

[296] Lord E. Fitzmaurice's _Life of Shelburne_.

[297] _Works_, x. 413.

[298] This statement, I believe, refers to a complimentary reference to
Bentham in the preface to the French Code.

[299] _Works_, x. 458.

[300] Bentham says that he reached these conclusions some time before
1809: _Works_, iii. 435. Cf. _Ibid._ v. 278.

[301] _Works_, x. 425.

[302] See description in Bain's _James Mill_, 129-36.

[303] _Works_, x. 479, 573.

[304] _Works_, x. 452-54.; Bain's _James Mill_, 104.

[305] The case of the 'King _v._ Cobbett,' (1804), which led to the
proceedings against Mr. Justice Johnson in 1805.--Cobbett's _State
Trials_, xxix.

[306] _Works_, x. 448-49.

[307] _Ibid._ x. 458.

[308] _Works_, x. 471, 570.

[309] _Ibid._ x. 471.

[310] _Ibid._ x. 461.

[311] _Ibid._ x. 471.

[312] _Ibid._ x. 490.

[313] Printed in _Works_, x. 495-97.

[314] _Ibid._ x. 570.

[315] _Ibid._ x. 476.

[316] _Works_, x. 485.

[317] Bain's _James Mill_, 136. _Church of Englandism_ and _Not Paul but
Jesus_ were also written at Ford Abbey.

[318] _Works_, x. 433, 448.

[319] _Ibid._ x. 457-58; Bain's _James Mill_, 79.

[320] _Works_, 553-54, 565.

[321] _Ibid._ xi. 53.

[322] See _Memo