The substance of this treatise, drawn up from the most unfinished of all Mr. Bentham's Manuscripts, has already been published in French by M. Dumont; and considering the very extensive diffusion of that tongue, the present work, but for one consideration, might seem almost superfluous.<br><br>The original papers contain many applications of the writers principles to British Institutions and British interests; which, with a view to continental circulation, have been judiciously omitted by M. Dumont.