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Thursday morng Aug. 27. 1778.

"Well now", (says Lind after hearing that
you were on board the fleet) if there shou'd
be an engagement we shall have a good
account of it. This observation will serve
as a kind of text, of on which I may give
you, perhaps, a comment.

28th at Petersham

You see what he expects of you: and
you are sensible how much reason he has to
expect you should do what little it may be
in your power to do to serve him.

I have set down on the other side a
few heads to assist you in the investigation
and arrangement of the incidents of which
it may be in your po way to give an account.

Who knows? besides serving the private purposes
of Lord Wilson & your other friends, what you
tell us might possibly be made to answer
a public purpose. One might cook up a 1s
or 6d pamphlet either anonymous or with your
name to it, in a letter to a gentleman
of Lincoln's Inn or to me, which might
answer your purpose either in the way of
profit or of credit or of both. What with softening
down, what with blanking names it is
possible one might make up something which
without departing from the truth of facts
you might neither be ashamed nor afraid
to own. Such a thing would have a
better chance for circulation, especially for
immediate circulation than any thing
else that either of us could write. At any
rate be as full & as explicit with regard
to names & every thing else as possible to
me; leaving it to me to suppress what it
will be proper or prudent to suppress. One
must certainly take care not to fix on you
the character of a tell-tale, as that would
put a seal upon the hearts & lips of
those from whom on any subjects more intimately
interesting to you, you might wish to
obtain intelligence. If the account you could
give were not large enough to make a pamphlet
of, one might send it to a Magazine or
Newspaper. As nothing can be more unsatisfactory
than the account which K. would is likely to give
(to judge from that he has given) it would be clever
to have a comparison made which should turn out
to your advantage.

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Date_1	1778-08-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	227	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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