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know how to build a ship, for that is what he may learn at Petersburgh,
but that he should be put in a way of making
improvements in the art of Shipbuilding and of building either
better ships in the present plan for the present purposes
or even upon new plans for the old purposes, or even for
new purposes if any such can be pointed out.

That with regard to these extra expences (in order that no time may be lost) you will not
grudge defraying them out of your salary, limited as it is but that you will
trust to the equity of the Board of Admiralty at Petersburg or
whom else it may concern to reimburse you the money upon
Mr Sambouski's certifying his opinion that it has been actually
disbursed and not improperly bestow'd: and that if in the course of
a few years you should succeed in giving the gentleman such
a knowledge of his art as shall be greater than what is not commonly possessed by tho
who practise it even in this country, you will look to their
generosity for a farther gratification.

3 o'clock

Q.S.P. has just been with me — I have opin'd
the matter to him, and he is very well satisfied — He desired me
not to mention any thing of it at home viz: at Q.S.P. till it is concluded.

I told Q.S.P. of your receiving the invitation from
Curtis: not of your having actually accepted of it. He was very well
satisfied. He even put it to me whether if you were to go out with
Ld Howe (which I also mentioned to him as a probable event) it
might not be of use to you to be rated as a midshipman.

I told him of the hint Sambouski dropped about connections
with Russia - with this also he was well satisfied.

Ld Bute has ponds at Loughton-Hoo. There would be a rare place to
build Diving-boats in

Identifier: | JB/538/277/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-01-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	277	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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