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but on that of the public.

2 — To engage with an Irish Architect on those
terms or —

3 — To engage with an Irish Architect upon the
common terms of contract advertising & taking
the best bidder.

4 — To take an Irish Architect & pay him according
to the present mode of a per-centage: or

5 — To advertise for English Contractors, & engage
with the best bidder.

My notion subject to your instructions, is to hear
M..r Blackburne with respect to the contrivances, but
as an Architect to execute, I expect more from M.r
Revely. All my knowledge of him consists in my
having met him at Constantinople in 1785-1786
where I saw him 5 or 6 times in the course of about three
weeks, since which I have had no sort of communication
with him. He was then at the close of an
engagem..t with M..r Rich..d Worsley whom he had been
with, taking views & drawings of Antiquities in
Egypt, Greece, & other parts of the Levant. As a
remarkably ingenious man I have heard him highly
celebrated by infinitely better judges than myself of
ingenuity in that line. His character, which has
something of singularity in it, strikes me upon
recollection, as being as unfavorable to peculation
as can well be imagined. Open, chattering, querulous,
telling one man what another says of him, & much more
apt to make quarrels with people than to collude
with them. As at that period he was sur le pair (for
he is but a young man) it seems not improbable but

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	051	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::edmeads & pine [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward cooke
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Notes public	letter 714, vol. 4	ID Number	38668
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