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9. To Russia we might go together: or if either of us prosper'd ever so
little he might send for the other. If you go to India to stay we are separated
very probably for ever: at any rate for the best part of our lives. O
my Sam, my child, the only child I shall ever have, my only friend, my
second self, could you bear to part with me? If you were sure of
succeeding there, and sure of not succeeding any where else, I would
consent to tear myself in two, and let you go to India, for the sake
of yourself & of the world.
As far as I can judge, B. would really be glad to have you
with him: on that account it is probable he would be ready enough
to introduce you to S. Edw. Hughes. There is no occasion therefore at
any rate for you to give him a peremptory denial. Upon that supposition
too it is possible he might keep you in his thoughts when
he was in India, & for the sake of getting you there, correspond with
you, & turn his thoughts to the getting a fixed establishment to
offer you.
In case of his going & your staying could not you get him to give
you a letter of introduction to Ld Shelburne: or what would be better
still perhaps, a letter to Ld Shelburne mentioning you, & desiring
him to find you out.
I like Blanket's candour & the confidence he put in you
very much: but if he should go to India especially, or if he should
not absolutely promise undertake for introducing you to Ld Shelburne
he can not take it amiss I should imagine, or think the worse of you for declining to communicate
it to him. For to the purposes of war, secrecy would be
the very life & soul of a scheme of that sort.
It is possible that by Blanquet's means you might get mention
made of the Fragment & the H. Labour Bill to Ld Shelburne.
Blanquet's thoughts of going to India were are not such a secret but that
he communicated them to Peake: whether he communicated to him any of these
secret circumstances on which his going depends is more than I know.
Peake about this.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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