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WIND GAGE

As you don't like that you have, why don't you return it

Thursday Jany. 27th

I have just now had a visit from a Mr Beale who is a Purser
of an E. India man (The True Brother I think she is,) now in
dock at Greenland Dock. He came in consequence of some enquiries
made by Q.S.P. to offer his service to me as an amanuensis.
He is much too magnificent a man, as you may imagine, for
that purpose. But finding what station he had been in, I set to
work & have been pumping him on your account. Voice what I have
collected.

1. He is acquainted with Capt Cooper.
2. He came from China & Madrass: the latter place he left the
23d I think it was of July. He was at a Ball given by the Nabob
on occasion of his receiving a letter from our King.
3. There are no considerable Dock Yards at Madrass, nor any where but
at Bombay. There there is a great Dock Yard (or two yards
I don't know which) kept by two Blacks, as he calls them that
is natives. Their names he mentioned but I did not understand them
4. The Nabob is altogether in the power of the English:
has no ships at all: no parts of his dominions (as B. believes) are
on the sea coast: but there are in them navigable rivers.
5. The ships built by those people are taken up employed chiefly by our
people commonly I think he said Capt & males of India — men
in the coasting trade
6. The Nabob is very much in debt: very backward in paying his
debts: not so generous as people here are apt to suppose. As a
proof of this Capt somebody (Capt I believe of an E. India man)
made him a present of a fine gold watch; & in return the Nab
gave him no more than the value of it. This you will say is but
no proof to signify — to be rare it is not. For a man need be rich &
generous

Identifier: | JB/538/289/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-01-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	289	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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