On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion, and other Legal and Political Writings for Spain and Portugal

• The essays represent Bentham's attempt to influence the direction of political and constitutional change taking place in Spain and Portugal in the early 1820s
• Contains previously unpublished drafts of two of the Letters to Toreno, and two letters intended for the Morning Chronicle, of which only one was sent and published
• Complements Colonies, Commerce, and Constitutional Law, in which Bentham commented on the disastrous effects on Spain of her attempts to retain her overseas possessions

Readership: Scholars of modern British history, particularly nineteenth-century social, political, and legal history; historians of philosophy, jurisprudence, political theory

Edited by Catherine Pease-Watkin, Research Associate, Bentham Project, University College London, and Philip Schofield, Director and General Editor of the Bentham Project and Professor of the History of Legal and Political Thought, UCL

Editorial Introduction
On the Liberty of the Press, and Public Discussion.
Three Tracts Relative to Spanish and Portugueze Affairs; With a Continual Eye to English Ones
Letters to Count Toreno on the Proposed Penal Code, Delivered in by the Legislation Committee of The Spanish Cortes, April [21st], 1821: Written at the Count's Request
Editorial Appendix to Letters to Count Toreno. Draft Letters VI And VII
Letters to the Morning Chronicle
Index of Subjects
Index of Names