JB/538/353/001

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Lincolns Inn. Aug, 17. 1779.

Dear Sir
This waits upon you with my Brothers
grateful acknowledgement for the kindness manifested in your
letter of the 15th: I have later upon me the office of secretary
upon this occasion, being the person who at present is rather
the less occupied of the two. He has this morning received an
offer of being convey'd to Helvoetsluys on board a Dutch fishing
vessel now at Billingsgate which sails on Friday, and thinks of complying with
it: but for greater safety he will send the greater part of his
baggage to Hamburgh on board a Hamburgh vessel, vessels
from that place having never been so much as stopped. His
course will be from Helvoetsluys to the Hague, Rotterdam,
Amsterdam, Gröningen. All that way he will go by water
in the Treckshuyts, which are cheap & expeditious. From
Gröningen there are a kind of stage-coaches that go twice
a week to Hamburgh through Bremen: the distance, about 150
English miles, is performed in about 2 or 3 days. This will
be safer than going by the packet-boats from Harwich to Helvoetsluys,
which have since been later and several times chaced. The only
risk he will run will be that of losing the contents of a small cloak - bag

Identifier: | JB/538/353/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-08-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	353	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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