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however, that shall be as suits your Convenience & Intentions —

I am glad to find your Brother has got one that writes so
neat & fair a hand — he seems to suit him in that respect
as well as any one cou'd—

Poor Sir Hugh seems to have enough to do to repell the
weight of Evidence against him — but matters by all accounts
are carried on with much more decency, Calmness &
Propriety, than the former affair. you see the Vacancy in the
Admiralty Board is filled up by Admiral Mann.

how fortunate as well as brave a man has our Capt.
Watson been — The Success of Privateering has been so
great it is almost enough to make ones mouth water
to have a Share — but the hazard is great, & happy is
it for the owners where the success is equal — make my
respects to Mr & Mrs. Davis, I pity them on account of the
Legacy wch. poor Mrs. Wise, & their own humanity has
left them — how comfortable it is for the little Orphans,
for such they are, notwithstanding they have a Father,
to have friends so kind to them, as their Uncle & Aunt.

The young Lady You Speak of must be a Daughter
of Mr Feast, who is a Brewer & lives either in Crippleg
or Old Street Parish for the purchase of the Brewery, & who
had a Country House opposite to the late Mr Tourian's Parson
at Chingford of wch he was Rector — It is extraordin
that she shod be suffer'd to spend so many years
in a Convent, — one wod think it was long enoug
to Convert her into a Nun.

nothing engages the Talk of the Town so much at presen
as the fate of Poor Miss Bay, & her unfortunately infatuated
Admirer — who takes his tryal to day at the Old Bayley
The only Question seems to be, what kind of misery he
shall suffer, the short one from the hands of the Executioner,
or the more wretched one of a Protracted Existence under
the Torments of reflection —</p

Identifier: | JB/538/316/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-04-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	316	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremiah Bentham	Watermarks
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