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Je penserai mon cher Sam a ton projet pour Chatham.
Mais je ne puis pas vous conseiller a compter beaucoup
le-dessus. D'ailleurs je ne voudrai pas encore tres abandonner
toute esperance de celui de Battle. Cependant trouvons si
nous pouvons quelques sujets de consolation

Lind t'other day received a letter from the Prince.
The Prince amongst other things tells gives him some account of
Malejewski I think the man's name is to whom the
Diet has given a commission to draw up a Code of Laws.
He says he is a man one whose exterior appearance is not in his favour: but whom he (the Prince) has always conceived
to be one who had many large & liberal views. He
has provided himself with the French translation of Blackstone's
Commentaries. The Prince proposed to him before the work should
be presented to the Diet, to send it over and get it perused by
somebody in England. He agreed to this. The Prince then proposed
Lind; and he assented. Long before that my Punishments
may be out: there may be a French Translation made
of them. And if they should take, it is possible it might lead to
somthing from that quarter. If they would make it worth my
while I might go over to Poland for a time and give them my assistance.

Lind has a project for himself which seems feasible enough
pr not thought of originally by himself but proposed to him
by a person whose concurrence is necessary to the execution of it.
Chairman of the Committee of Ways & Means in the H. of
Commons; which carries with it a seat in the House & £800
a year hard-money. Sr Ch. Whitworth the present Chairman
has offer'd to resign in his favour, upon if Ld N. will promise
him the first vacant seat in the Customs or Excise,
which is no more than the usual retreat for a superannuated
Chairman. But Sr Ch. to be indemnified in the mean time either
by L. or the Ministry till a seat falls vacant. This might be done
out of the £2000 Ld N. has already offerd consented to give L.

Identifier: | JB/538/088/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1777-01-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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