BENTHAM, Jeremy.

Observations on Mr Secretary Peel's House of Commons speech, 21st March, 1825, introducing his Police Magistrates' Salary Raising Bill. Date of order for printing, 24th March, 1825. Also on the announced Judges' Salary Raising Bill, and the pending County Courts Bill ...

London, John & H. L. Hunt, 1825. Tall 8vo, pp. 62; complete with the final blank; small stain on lower margin of the title, a little dust-soiling to fore-edges; uncut in blue morocco-backed buckram boards, gilt lettering on spine. Augmented edition, longer than the Pamphleteer edition of the same year. The work was reprinted in Official Aptitude Maximized in 1830.‘Robert Peel was neither a Benthamite, nor a Radical, nor even a Whig. A member of a Tory Cabinet but a reformer of the party to which he belonged, it was he who made Parliament adopt four statutes which suppressed the death penalty in more than a hundred cases specified by the law. [However,] Robert Peel’s laws were laws of “consolidation”; and the procedure of “consolidation” which was expressly condemned by Bentham, bore only a very distant relation to his programme of “codification”. Yet at about this time Robert Peel was on several occasions in correspondence with Bentham; when in 1823 he undertook the reform of English criminal law it was from Mackintosh, Bentham’s disciple on this subject, that he stole the glory of having executed this great reform; and when in 1833 a Commission was nominated to complete the revision of the criminal laws, the first name on the list of members was that of John Austin, the Utilitarian jurist of University College’ (Halévy, p. 509).Chuo O1-2; Everett, p. 543; Goldsmiths’ 2455.

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