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Lincolns Inn May 12th 1785

Dear Sir

Here am I still: how much longer I shall be here, I do
not as yet precisely know: nor by what track nor by what conveyance I
shall migrate elsewhere. I am waiting for letters from Petersburgh: that is which
is like the country is waiting to say I am in the state & condition of your friend Horaces countryman who kept working for the river to run itself dry. Thanks to my
sins stars, I have to do with one of the most indolent men of the most indolent
nations upon the face of Gods Almighty's earth. I write him letter after letter about &
business purely his own. He, I am told, expresses much satisfaction: and
how do you think he testifies it? You would suppose, by answering them:
no such thing: he orders them to be translated out of my dog-French into
Russian: for what purpose, or for whose use, I can't pretend to guess: not
for his own most certainly: as he makes at least as much use of the French
as of the Russ. However he talks of writing soon, and then the matter rests

As for you, I will almost venture to prophecy you will not quit the
land of Pim island in a hurry: the gnomes of Cornwall have bound encompassed you with
silver charms. I see the would-be Gulliver struggling to get home: in vain
a swarm of little Plut, loose keep fast hold of him by the heart-strings.

As to Sir Edward Bayntern, I am much obliged to him for his
good intentions: they are like Prince Potemkins', of lasting stuff, not to
be distrusted put an end to by performance. I should rather have said, for his
declarations: which assuredly is full as much as I had any take to
expect.

To come back to Milk maids. You gave me as your decided opinion
that no such animals would be to be met with, born in two countries, at once.
After great consideration and some enquiry, I do believe am inclined to think you are in the
right. Indeed I know but a never cared hear of more than one sort of being that has been is to be found with in
more than one place at a time, in any period of its' existence. I think therefore
I have done something, in finding in the person a Niece of my all capable performance Scotchman

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Notes public	letter 530, vol. 3; draft; also printed, with incorrect date, in bowring, x, 139-40	ID Number	3311
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