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By all the accounts I hear, Sam is in no sort of danger
from the French. However, for greater security and to ease expence
he has put the bulk of his baggage to Hamburgh. By
the packet he could not have gone for less than 5 guineas
pass, Custom house extortions, Harwick expences and every thing
included. The pass alone is £2.2' & 6. The Packet book
to have been taken once and chaced several times; for which
reason they stop at Harwick by the week together, not choosing
to trust to any but the fairest winds.

I should in course have written to you on Saturday
last; but my hope then was not to be obliged to write
till I could inform you of Sam's arrival. What you told
mentioned in your last of your having having met with a
disappointment one post gave me the hint; and I was in hopes
that charity might lead you to impute the want of letters
from us to a similar cause. The reason of my working now
in the middle of a week is that I am going tomorrow to
pay a visit to my friend Wilson who is settled at Thorpe
near Chertsey for the summer season; and as I shall hardly
return this week, if I were not to write now it might be a
long time before you could hear from me. In order that you
may not suffer from my absence, I have taken measures for getting all

Identifier: | JB/538/370/002 "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	370	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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