Papers of Sir James Mackintosh: Letter from Sir James Mackintosh to an unknown recipient Letter from Sir James Mackintosh, Mardocks, near Ware, to an unknown recipient in which he states that his speeches on criminal law will be published the following week and the report will appear as a pamphlet a month afterwards; the successive publication will make a greater impression on the public than if they were published at the same time; it is desirable that they should be in the hands of all known friends to the cause of intelligent and unprejudiced persons over the country; he wishes there was some means of ensuring their circulation in the proper quarters; the recipient's judgement will allow him to decide who might be the persons who might lend aid in purchasing numbers enough for distribution; following these publications, he intends to revive the subject towards Christmas with an article in the Edinburgh Review and afterwards bring in our bills in the first fortnight of the session [of parliament]; he enquires as to the nature of the distress prevalent among the labouring classes in London and requests some instruction in the subject, 20 July 1819. 20 July 1819