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be agreable, the sea voyage would be of service to my
health, and the object of the expedition might give me
a little practise in public business. I therefore
went immediately to a friend of mine who was is
intimate with Prof Johnstone, to whom he proposed
it without loss of time. Johnstone's answer
was so flattering to me, (though I have never heard
him spoken of as a man of compliments,) that
were it not for the termination of the business what follow'd it
would hardly be decent for me to mention it. He
said if he could but get me, he should think he
had got a treasure: thanked my friend for
mentioning it, but chid him for not mentioning
it before: regretted he had sent for Ferguson &
that it was too late to countermand him: but said
that he was to have two gentlemen with him,
the other a Barrister of our I our Inn who
had been recommended to him by his Brother
Pulteney (Pulteney you know was originally
a Johnstone, and took the his name for the Bath
estate) and that he would take me in either
of two events: If Ferguson did not come at the
time expected, or if Mr Pulteney could be
prevailed on to let him off with respect to the
other gentleman: observed that he had (Johnstone) was under great obligation
to his brother, that he was dependent on him, and
therefore

Identifier: | JB/169/106/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 248, vol. 2	ID Number	56926
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