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Did I tell you that Q.S.P. has made a present of a screen
fire-screen? a very smart one, somwhat upon the plan of
Wilson's.
I think I won't send this away till tomorrow — I
shall then hope to find another piece of a letter in answer
to that I wrote you on Monday [the day before yesterday.]
Friday 5 o clock
I have just received your double letter: it was charged 9d,
but I got the 3d abated upon sending back the cover.
The greatest part of what is above is very agreably anticipated.
The scheme of Ld Shelburne delights me of all things.
E. India scheme certainly deserves consideration: voici my objections to it
1. It would supersede the scheme with Ld Shelburne.
2. You would put yourself in the power of a man whom you know very
little of, and whom you have even reason to think fickle & not much
to be depended upon. You have reason beforehand to fear he may prove another
Macbride.
3. If you could not go in the capacity of Naval Engineer, you could not
go in any; and then you would be altogether dependent. But could Sr
Edw. employ you in any such capacity; and if he could, what do you
know of the matter? you do not know the mathematical part, the common
technical part of the business?
4. What would the Pearl fishery signify now before you have brought the
invention to bear? I don't imagine the E. Indies to be a place to try
experiments in: there are no Mathem. Instrt: makers there
5. I am afraid of the climate: your health is rather delicate
6. It would be giving up the Russia Scheme in future; and Lohmen
Afan: & the chance of Kudigen in present.
7. How soon might you come back? At the soonest it would be two
years. But if you came back then you would have abandoned sacrificed all
the other schemes, and you would not have got any money. To get any
money you must stay a monstrous length of time.
8. If either of us were in Russia we might write and have answers in
6 weeks. From the E. Indies - not in a year & ½.
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