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"well taken that I should interfere so much as I do in promoting projects
"of education & other matters for the good of my country. It is thought
"perhaps that I should do as well to confine myself to my Chapel.
"In Russia, I am sorry to say it, projects of improvement even when
"attended to adopted are very unsteadily pursued. Many are begun & neglected
"every day. At Taganroc a port on the Black Sea 3 Scotchmen
"went from the Foundery at Carron in Scotland, to cast Cannon.
"When they came there, there was no work for them to do. They did
"not know what to do with themselves. They took to drinking. They
"petitioned for work to the Commissioner there who is called Admiral
"but none was given them. At last they said it was to no purpose
"their staying there if they could get no work; it was picking the Empress's
"pocket: they would therefore go back again to Petersburgh: & so they did. Being Englishmen, this liberty although
"it occasioned surprize, was pardoned, & they went back again. returned to Taganroc.
"Peculation which is said to be but too much studied here, is the
"chief and in a manner the only study there. When Adm. Knowles was
"there a quantity of dung & other rubbish was accumulated in the Admiralty
"(so they call that mass of buildings with their appurtenances
"which includes the Dock Yard, & every building & yard that relates
"to the Marine) which dung it was thought proper to remove to the opposite
"side of the River. Instead of putting it on board a barge, they
"took a long circuit and convey'd it over by land. The Adm. made
"a calculation and found that what might have been done for £400
"by water, came would cost in the way in which it was begun, £2000.
"He represented the affair to the Empress, and she reprimanded the people
"concerned very severely. However the continued mortifications the Admiral
"met with forced him at last to quit the field.
"The great misfortune at present is the derangement of the finances:
"to that perhaps it was owing that the three Scotchmen from Carron
"could not get materials to work upon. For these two years past neither the
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Jeremy Bentham |
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