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There was I mentioned among Benthams acquaintances a mercantile man named Villion, a Genoese who
helped, said B to cheer my Lincoln Inn solitude. He was very fond of my
company & was generally welcome to me. But once he came
annoyed me by coming at dinner time – for I had but a
scanty fare & he grubbed up half of it. His dress was very
shabby & he wore a shirt as coarse as a hop sack. Any
thing about him was mean & as I attributed it to his poverty
I only pitied him – But I soon learned he had lost no less
than £4000 by the failure of his brother – this alone was
equal to £200 a year – so he sank in my estimation – I
could have excused his poverty but not his being so rich
& living so meanly. I was passionately fond of Chemistry
then & he studied chemistry for the love he bore me. In his
brother's absence he once gave me a dinner at his brother's expense.
I remember a garden like paradise on the top of the house. He
used to borrow books of me. He was received into many good
families among others that of Peter Noailles, who had extensive
silk works at Seven Oaks. Noailles had a beautiful wife & a
beautiful daughter & being introduced by Villion I dined there
once or twice. Through him I also knew There was a renowned Wine
Merchant of the name of Chaillet who afterwards migrated to
Bedford Square. He had two daughters one of whom married
a secretary of the first Lord Melville – When I was a suitor
on the subject of Panopticon the Secretary did me some friendly
service & I once met his father in law at his office & he said
to

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