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6.
I have been very lucky in meeting with a very honest
intelligent fellow for a Valet de place who puts my things
in order and saves me a good deal of trouble, and
whom I know I can trust: but the fellow speaks
all manner of languages and english among
the rest so that by my being so much with
Mr Hanbury's family and by this fellow's speaking
english in compalaisane to me I learn
very little German.
7.
If you happen to hear any thing public or private
of Ld Shelburne or in short relating to any of my
recommenders remember to give me some account
of it, least anything relating to them should
have reached Russia before I do and without my
knowing anything of it.
8.
If at any time you, Lind, or any body else for
whose good treatment &c one could answer should
be in want of a kind of Secretary or Assistant who
must understand several languages and be a
man of univel learning Chas Hanbury is the
person of all that I have met with who has
the best opies of procuring such.
There is a man here now who has but a place
of 50£ a year and his board, who is a man of
most extensive learning particularly with respect
to the laws & polities of this part of the world and
whom on account of his most excellent disposition
as well as learning Chas Hanbury and some other
Gentlemen leaof learning here are very much attatched
to. He appears on every account to be the man
who would be most usefull to you, more so perhaps
even than Raspe even on account of his learning and
other accounts much more so. If at any future
time you should have an opportunity of having
a man in such a character it is possible this
man might be procured for less than 100 a year.
9.
I was to have taken a Servant from hence
however I have none as yet. and the great
wages they ask to go where I am going
such at least as could be of any use to me
makes me determine to alter my plan.
10.
When I shewed my "Petty Plan" to May at Amsterdam
a remark he made on it was that there was no
head which would comprehend a particular contrivance
which they have in Holland to send off a rope to
a Ship in distress at a time when the wind blows
right from the Ship to the Shore and there is no
possibility of a boats going off: nor in short
all expedients in general to be made
use to which recourse may be had in times of
the several dangers and distresses to which
a Ship or its crew are liable, [incident to the
Marine Services] You know I have mentione
to you and noted down An Idea I have of a work
which should contain a collection of all such
expedients not only for such cases of distress
as actually have happened but of such as can
be conceived possible to happen, arranged in
such manner as to be referred to with as
much expedition as possible. Publication of
Voyages and verbal anecdotes furnished by Seamen
must make the first foundation for such a work
but the expedients actually used may be tiend
up to their genus and the circumstances in
which they are to be used trand up in like manner
and afterwards both extended out to other spe
and thus one may provide in many instances
in an exhaustive method.
This a work of this kind May perceived very clearly the
importance of, as well as the advantages that
would arise from examining Officers according
to such a work instead of in the present mode.
But what I want you to do is to coin me
a word for the head which we want.
Naval or Marine Preservatics. something
that will stand with Naval Tactics. Semantics,
Engeneering &c. As soon as you can think
of such a word send it me.
11.
I want you to ask desire Poli to ask the Venetian Embassador
whether they continue the or ever did had the
custom of keeping their Timber with which the Galleys
are built for 15 or 20 years in salt water before it
is used. and whether they pretend that their Galleys last
longer than Vessels of other nations. Or in short what
they do do to their Timber, and how long they do last without repair
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