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"the Embassador nor have I touched a farthing of our salaries. If it
"had not been for the friends I have here, I should have found it
"difficult to subsist. IYou have seen the little colony that we have here
"to study Agriculture. If supplies do not come soon I must e'en ship
"them back again for for Petersburgh. The expression "beggarly grandeur"
"that Ld Chesterfield uses in speaking of our Monarchy, is but too applicable
"to us still. Loh What I tell you is but too true. Lohmen
"who is passionately fond of his country, may be apt for that reason
"to put a better face upon things than in strictness they will bear.

"In Astracan we have no Dock Yard. No attention is paid at
"present to the Caspian Sea. Our attention is at present directed exclusively
"to the Baltic & the navigation of the Black Sea. At Taganroc, a port on the
"Black Sea we have a Dock Yard. At Taganroc if your Brother was
"Shipbuilder he might do very well, provided he were upon good
"terms with the Admiral (Commissioner) But would he conniv
"join in peculation and all the abuses it gives birth to?
"would disdain to do it — and therefore, there is but too much
"apprehend he would not be upon good terms with the Ad
[O, Sam! if a man were but Admiral there himself!]

"C. Czernicheff I dare say, means very well: but most things
"go by favour: & there is no withstanding sollicitation. Robinson of Edinburgh (who was
"a Professor at Moscow and in 6 months time acquired such a knowledge
"of the language as to give lectures in it,) brought with him back to
"Scotland [or had sent to him] three Russian Pupils. One of them did
"extraordinarily well, and made a very great proficiency in the Mathematics
"- the two others but indifferently. They were allow'd to stay but
"3 years (which is another fault with us; we do not allow time enough
"for education.) At their return, the proficient in Mathematics was sent
"to Sea: the two others were retained as Mathematicians."

This is the chief of what passed: as he said a good deal in the way of wishing
that you could but have a fit subject to work upon, & what advantage it would be to his country.

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Date_1	1779-01-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	292	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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