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to advance £20.

Nothing would give him greater pleasure than that a countryman
of his & one that were capable of profiting by it should have the
benefit of your instruction. On that account it grieved him to think
that Afan. (as he feared) would not come up to that design. He is a
very good lad but his education has not gone beyond writing and
reading, and drawing a little in Eames's Mold-loft.

To save time I will speak write in future in Sambouski's
person.

"Afan: is just come away from Mistier's. He could not
"bear to stay there any longer. They gave him for a Bedfellow a
"Mulatto prentice who used him brutally: amongst other things taking
"offence for at him for disturbing some birds the Mulatto was going
"to shoot at, he (the Mulatto) fired at him & shot him in the
"breast."

[To have done with Afan. I will tell you, that willing at
any rate that you should see him I consented to a proposal that
Samb. made me that he should go down to Portsmouth for a month.
I told him that board would cost 17s. a week. He said that then
the whole expence of go the journey might be defray'd for about 5
guineas. You may expect him therefore every day.] Afan is a good
well-looking good-humoured young lad.

"As to Kutigen, he is the son of a man who is "Quarter-
"Master on board the grand Duke's Ya Yatcht. His allowance from
"the Admiralty is but the £40 or £60 a year: but the G.D. makes
"it up £200. He, I much fear will would not prove more trouble-worthy
"than the other. He struts about and gives himself the airs of a Macaroni.
"He talks too of going to be married.

"The G.D. is Admiral. The Vice Admiral the acting person is C.
"Czernichef, who was Ambassador here. C.Cz. is my friend: he is disposed to
"pay some regard to my representations: though perhaps it is not perfectly well

Identifier: | JB/538/291/001 "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	291	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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