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1820 Nov. 16
J.B. to Mora
. N.B. or along
When you have seen run over the list of his services, think of this.
It was with the utmost difficulty he could obtain that person of retreat
which to a man who has filed he often he had filed in the Navy
Board is given of course to a creature of corruption, who except
eating his salary and signing his name has now rendered
a particle of service in any shape: Will, and even for this to what
was he indebted? To that circumstance: that the mother of Charles
Abbot who was then Speaker had had for her second husband
my Father, by whom from the 6 year old he had been
bred up – he and his deceased elder brother – may your desired in the
house which from which I write. ,
to turn him out, forced him to go to Russia salary was
it was on a pecuniary allowance, of which they would have cheated
him, had it not happened that his friend Count Woronzow then
here, was privy to it: and Abbot, by office continually prefixt with
his Lordship to upload him with it: but even then they put
off the payment for a number of years, and cheated thus cheating him of and cheated him of
of the interest during that time.
I spoke of . In the Russian military service his first stop
was the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the command of an independent
Batallion of 1,000 men: and for that he superintended
an Estate of Prince Potemkin at in Russia (one in Poland) for whom he had got some
English artisans and manufacturers. When the Empress Catherine
made her progress of parade to the Black Sea down the River Drieper my Brother
went thither in a⊞ ⊞ Vessel of his invention which he called a Vernicular. Vessel that boat called a Vernacular of his invention consisting
of a number of boats, linked together like the ridge linked together like the rings of which a
worm is worms are composed. The velocity was such, that it played
round and round the clumsy vessels of parade constructed for
the reception of the Empress and her , Before he had he was
to Crichoft, came the unexpected invasion of Russia by the Turks under Hussain
Pacha. The construction was extreme. General was
there
Identifier: | JB/013/087/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
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rid yourselves of ultramaria |
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jeremy bentham |
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draft of letter 2714, vol. 10 |
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