JB/538/369/002

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The second time on Monday by a letter dated on Friday. He
was then got no further than Lee. When I left him the
vessel swarmed with Jews: but these were either left at Gravesend,
or at least are not Cabbin Passengers: for of these there
are but one besides himself; a decent civil well-behaved man;
with whom he agrees very well. The account he gives of himself
is that he has been a Lady's Hairdresser: and is going in
quality of Hair Merchant to Francfurt Fair which is to be
held I think the 5th: if so I doubt he will come more than
one day after the fair. But now I think of it, he shall
speak for himself. I will send you both the letters; save f
except the cover of the first, which I was forced to send back
(as I am continually) to the Post Office, on account of an
over charge.

The reasons which determined him to go in the manner
he has done are these. Had he accepted of the Russ. Embassador's
offer he would have overshot Holland and Hamburgh; the
latter of which places he it is very material to his plans
that he should spend some little time at. It will doubtless likewise
be an advantage to him at Petersburgh and elsewhere to
have to say that he has been in Holland and examined what
belongs to shipping there. This was part of the advice which Sambouski gave him, and

Identifier: | JB/538/369/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-09-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	369	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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