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perfect finish the shipbuilding education of a young Russian who has already studied shipbuilding it some
time in his own country at Petersburgh and about a year in this country
He is now at was sent down to my Brother at Portsmouth
about a fortnight ago for my Brother to make trial of his
capacity. [My Brother is at present at Portsmouth in the
Royal Academy: where he resides partly for the sake of seeing
what is going on in the Dock Yard, & partly for the benefit
of Mr Witchel's instructi assistance in the Mathematics

I should hope the circumstance of his having had a
liberal education, begun at Westminster School, continued at
in Academy of Caen in Normandy in France and applied in the manner I have
been mentioning to the particular study of this Art, that
such an education I say, if it prove no recommendation,
may however not prove a decisive objection against him,
as I have sometimes the mortification of hearing it said it
will will; and that the extraordinary pains and expence he has been at in qualifying him for the service will not be an insuperable bar to his being placed in it. In France men of great learning & great name (I need
only mention Mr Du Hamel) were for that very reason placed at the head of that line
in which he wishes to be placed.

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Date_1	1779-02-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	304	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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