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but that I might make sure by his means of knowing of my Code's reaching
the Empress's hand. He advised me by all means to dedicate
it to her at once, to send copies over there, and to give one to
the Russian Ambassador here. He says that unless some such
method as that was taken, and in short unless She was expressly
given to understand that the Author would be glad to be in
her service she would never think of taking any personal
notice of him: for except the people of the navy, they have
no idea there that an Englishman would be willing to quit
his own country to go and live there. He says he knows a
good deal about Russia having been a good deal in Prussia
in Poland, and in other countries upon the confines of the
Russian dominions, and I am not sure whether he has been
any where within those dominions — He gives but a poor
account of the Grand Duke, he says he is a poor
He was knows his person perfectly well having
been for half an hour together so close as almost to touch
him, at a Ball where the K. of Prussia was also present,
given on occasion of the Gr. D.'s marriage. He bow'd
and cringed and behaved like a School-boy to the King: he
behaved with childish fondness to his wife who is or was (for
I forget whether it was the 1st or 2d) a very pretty woman

At last I have expedited the blank power of Attorney.
I have put it up in a parcel with my pretty wastecoat
I have just been taking it to the Diligence which sets out
from the Bell Friday at 6 tomorrow morning, and is
to reach the Plymouth they say on Monday.

I have just received thy letter in which thou mentioned
but now for the 1st time I would have thee to know thy Philosophical
dispute with Macbride.

The paragraph about Robinson is a mistake —

Identifier: | JB/538/249/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1778-10-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	249	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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