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What signifies your writing ostensible letters to Sambouski now?
with a p to you — what news can you have to say to him?
mind your business, study Algebra now you pay so dearly
for it, & don't be resless. You are like me, you want
to reap before you have finished sowing.

I received yesterday a letter from O.A. The books I
wrote to him for are on their way.

¼ before 10
Just returned from Warwick Court. I gave D. my
letter to Fitzht. to read, & in the mean time Mrs D., perhaps secretly
perhaps not, took from me your letter. Wilson went with
me. I left him there. Mrs D. came with me down stairs: &
told me such things as though not physically impossible, I must
confess, considering who they come from, I do not believe. The result
is that Ld Howe is coming into the Admiralty. The purport was
that Mr D. had said to her "that "they flatter'd themselves with the
"thoughts of going into the country, but that was likely to be at
"an end, that they should probably have to live at the other end
"of the town: but that one comfort was, if they did it would be
"just in the manner they would like", that either then or at another
time he had said that "it was now not improbable but she might
"see what she had so often wished to see - Sam's surveyor of the
"Navy." All this d'ye mind she told me before the Servant. Thus much however is certain that when he called on
me said in answer to something in the pumping way I said to him
that from some papers Ld H. had put into his hands he should imagine
he had not absolutely given up (as I said told him had been reported) all
thoughts of public business: and if I am not very much mistaken
he had said before that Ld. H. he believed would not have the command
of a fleet. Remains, you know, the Admiralty. And this evening

Identifier: | JB/538/300/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-02-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	300	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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