JB/538/141/002

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As part of your letter related to Sam, I took an opportunity
that offer'd a short time ago of conveying it to Chatham (I should
now say to Brompton) by Mr Wise who is since returned. In a
letter I received from Sam on Wednesday he mentions the having
received one from you the day before he wrote.

In our last night's paper I saw, not without concern, that our
friend the Alderman it is to be Sheriff. How unfortunate! that the black
lot should fall so soon upon poor Jonas! Decline it, I suppose
he can not in his station.

I am glad to find that in my conjecture of your kind
intentions relative to my God-daughter, I was not mistaken. The expenditure
is indeed a mere trifle — short of a Guinea and a half.
But trifles to one in my circumstances you know Sir, are serious
things. Mr and Mrs Wise are flatter'd by the obliging notice taken of
them in your letter, and beg their respectful Compliments in return.

Your offer, Sir, about the printing of my book, lays me, I must
confess under some difficulty. I hope you will not be offended if I observe
to you, that at present it seems a little premature. It is now I
think exactly a twelvemonth since you were kind enough to assure me
that an account which I had just then requested leave to send you
should be "settled in a manner that you hoped would be to my satisfaction."
Whether it has been settled to my satisfaction, or whether it
has been settled in any manner at all, I would leave it to you to
answer. The sum of my expectations as there stated up to that time
was £80, or 81 odd. Since then I have received two sums of you, one
of £25, the other of £21: (besides some silver amounting to almost near a Guinea
when my Coal-Merchant come with his Bill: to which I may add £3 - 3. 0
which Sam had of you lately on a sudden occasion for my use. A pecuniary
supply by way of "passport to the press" you may well imagine, Sir, could
not be unwelcome; provided you could spare it without regret: on which
condition alone I would deprive you of any thing beyond what was either

Identifier: | JB/538/141/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1777-10-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	141	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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