[293] Bentham had himself written some of his papers in French.
[296] Lord E. Fitzmaurice's _Life of Shelburne_.
[298] This statement, I believe, refers to a complimentary reference to Bentham in the preface to the French Code.
[300] Bentham says that he reached these conclusions some time before 1809: _Works_, iii. 435. Cf. _Ibid._ v. 278.
[302] See description in Bain's _James Mill_, 129-36.
[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.
[317] Bain's _James Mill_, 136. _Church of Englandism_ and _Not Paul but Jesus_ were also written at Ford Abbey.
[319] _Ibid._ x. 457-58; Bain's _James Mill_, 79.
[322] See _Memoirs of J. Q. Adams_ (1874), iii. 511, 520, 532, 535-39, 540, 544, 560, 562-63. and Bentham's letter to Adams in _Works_, x. 554.
The unsettled conditions which followed the peace in various European countries found Bentham other employment. In 1809 Dumont did some codifying for the Emperor of Russia, and in 1817 was engaged to do the same service for Geneva. He was employed for some years, and is said to have introduced a Benthamite Penal Code and Panopticon, and an application of the Tactics.[325] In 1820 and 1821 Bentham was consulted by the Constitutional party in Spain and Portugal, and wrote elaborate tracts for their enlightenment. He made an impression upon at least one Spaniard. Borrow, when travelling in Spain some ten years after Bentham's death, was welcomed by an Alcalde on Cape Finisterre, who had upon his shelves all the works of the 'grand Baintham,' and compared him to Solon, Plato, and even Lope de Vega.[326] The last comparison appeared to Borrow to be overstrained. Bentham even endeavoured in 1822-23 to administer some sound advice to the government of Tripoli, but his suggestions for 'remedies against misrule' seem never to have been communicated.[327] In 1823 and 1824 he was a member of the Greek Committee; he corresponded with Mavrocordato and other leaders; and he begged Parr to turn some of his admonitions into 'Parrian' Greek for the benefit of the moderns.[328] Blaquière and Stanhope, two ardent members of the committee, were disciples; and Stanhope carried with him to Greece Bentham's _Table of the Springs of Action_, with which he tried to indoctrinate Byron. The poet, however, thought with some plausibility that he was a better judge of human passions than the philosopher. Parry, the engineer, who joined Byron at the same time, gives a queer account of the old philosopher trotting about London in the service of the Greeks.[329] The coarse and thoughtless might laugh, and perhaps some neither coarse nor thoughtless might smile. But Bowring tells us that these were days of boundless happiness for Bentham.[330] Tributes of admiration were pouring in from all sides, and the true Gospel was spreading across the Atlantic and along the shores of the Mediterranean.