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considerable store terrific variety view the moral habit
of Fortune.

T’other day upon the apprehension of a war
and additional Surveyor was appointed. This made
readi vacancies in some of the inferior places in the
Dock Yard. I thought this a good opportunity of
trying whether some thing could be done for him.
My Father had no means of coming at any body.
But I gave him I know nobody none of the 6 Lords of Admiralty
board of myself: but I got friends to speak to three of
the six in his favour. The answer of all three
was that of the places in question are not in the
Department of the Admiralty board, but of
the Navy board. He has been several times to Ld Mulgrave⊞ ⊞ (who is a Captain in the Navy and was in daily expectation of being called out to service) had not time to look at any
of his papers beyond the tiller: but was kind enough to speak
in his favour to Ld. Sandwich. Ld. Sandwich’s
answer was to the same effect: that the
places did not lie in the Department of the Admiralty
board. Whatev every body is agreed about
is that the places would have been within
the Department of the Admiralty board if Sam
had been a freeholder of Huntingdon. Ld.
Mulgrave

Identifier: | JB/169/107/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	107	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
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	56927
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