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1820 Decr 11
J.B. to Blaquiere

A thing for a man in your situation – particularly
if any of my letters take effect – is this. What you
A man, if he suspects your writing for the press
may tell you something which is not true for the purpose of
getting it believed by your means: or, taking care not to mention
it to any body else, or not to mention it to any but those on
whose secrecy he thinks he may depend, he may tell it you
whether it be true or not true, for the purpose of seeing whether
it gets into print: if it does, then he knows, or thinks he
knows, by what means.

One reason for not writing earlier was that in anser to mine of 17th Nov. I waited
to receive a letter from you informing me whether Admiral
Tchetchagoff was or was not at Paris: because if he was
not, I might the writing a letter to him – and so long
a letter – might be saved.

This is intended to go by through the hands of Mr
Moore the by the opportunity he pointed out to me. Pray
fail not to answer by return of post, unless the delay of
a day, or at the most two days will enable you to
profit by a counter-opportunity if there is one: which
I forgot to ask him about when he called here.

One sad thing is – that Mora having written to
you about the want of money as well as correspondence
for carrying on his paper to advantage and you having sent me that part of his letter he did not so
much as state what the sum is he is in want of:
I wrote thereupon immediately two letters: one to him, to
desire him to particularize: another to you desiring you
to tell you me what more, if any thing, he had told you.
This must have been. I have not been long before the
17 Novr: for my sore eyes are already bedeviled by poring over
our correspondence, and I can not work them any more.

Identifier: | JB/010/061/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1820-12-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	061	Info in main headings field	jb to blaquiere
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2728, vol. 10	ID Number	3497
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