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1784.4.13

Dear Sir
Upon my returning to town today on account of
the election of E. India Directors, I have been,—shall
I say, agreably, or, disagreably?—surprised, at finding
at home your obliging letter of the 8th instant. It hath recalled
to my mind a friendly connection, which, as long as it
lasted, was at once the pride and the delight of my life.
But this connection not being supported equally on both sides,
it necessarily grew by slow degrees, weaker and weaker,
till it broke at last.

This event, although long-foreseen, and according
to the common course of Nature, which seldom, very seldom
indeed, admits the continuation of an intimacy between
unequals, hath however affected me so much, that I
do assure you, Time hath hardly afforded me any relief;
even Time itself, whose ever-working hand, hath almost
obliterated out the very deep impressions, made upon me
by the heavy strokes of repeated misfortunes: misfortunes
which the generality of people would agree, in looking
upon

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Date_1	1784-04-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	001	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	francis villion	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown and motif] [britannia emblem]]]
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 494, vol. 3	ID Number	3302
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