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Hamburgh is an Imperial Town: at Hamburgh
therefore you will probably be able to get the Edict
of the Empress Queen, abolishing Torture throughout
her dominions: if you can, do; as likewise all
other edicts if there are any, relative to criminal
law & posterior to the Code Therese published
in 17 .
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Amongst other reveries it came into my
head t'other day that if the D. does not employ
you he deserves to have his head cut off if
he does not give you a carriage to go to Petersburgh
with: and that you might even spell
for it, by asking Bar. Klopman how you
should manage about a carriage and where
and how such a thing was to be got, and
how much it would cost; and if told the price,
shake your head, saying it is a good deal
of money to pay for coming so much out
of your way &c.
3.
You may take occasion to mention Lindgreen
to Klopman, speaking of the regret
he expressed at his not having executed done what
he undertook to do for him, and of his taking
shame to himself for his neglect: asking him
at the same time whether it is any thing
that you could do for him, and that you wou'd
endeavour to acquit yourself better, and endeavour to make
atonement for your friend's forgetfulness &c &c.
If it is any thing that I can do, in order to
save time you may write to me, that I
may do it: but whatever it is, it is probably
already done by Offenberg.
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Monday Aug. 30
I have just settled with Otley. He allows
discount for the whole: though some of it is not less
than 7 weeks standing: so that by one means or
other his bill is reduced from near £25, to
£20 13s or thereabouts.
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fter 2
Just received your letter from the Nore.
But how the deuce came it from you?
to me it came by the penny-post - What
a disappointment! before I open'd it, j'ai
cru bonnement that it came from Helvoetsluys.
Ten thousand millions of plagues upon
these cursed Dutchmen! & when & how came
I to write to Q.S.P.? The wind seems to be
at the South: but still too much, too much
to the East. If we could but have known
this, we might have gone down together
to Rochford and staid at my farm. N'importe,
you will have learnt experience, & patience,
& how to fare hard.
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I wonder whether you will meet with
an & DeCourt at Helvoetsluys or any
before you get to Rotterdam. I was
with them on Friday from 3 to 5. & saw
them just setting off in a Postchaise for Harwich.
Nothing could be more friendly than
they were both: Strachan more particularly,
who told me he should offer you a bed. I
was a great ass that I did not desire them
to enquire after you at Helvoet, & let me
know if they heard no tidings of you.
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Send you Instead. to Petty and some blacking
Yes — but how and whither?
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Wilsons friend Johnson after all goes
not to Thorpe. He is swept away as well as
Wilson's other friend Trail, by the Warwickshire
Militia. And now comes a letter from Wilson
(Aug. 27.) pressing me to go down to him.
But I received a letter from Davies t'other
day in which he tells me he shall not go
to Sea, and that he looks every day to be
in town, and hopes to take me down with him.
However as it is a matter of uncertainty, I believe
I shall pay Wilson a visit for a few
days, but h wrote to D. on Saturday, telling
him that as soon as ever I heard from him for
that purpose, I would come to Town from Wilson's
& meet him.
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