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I dont know how much Government give pr
Pound for the portable soup which they contract for
for the use of the Navy. What a blockhead I was
not to take a little of it with me by way of sample.
Would the importation of it be permitted?
Would it be liable to duties? to what amount?
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I ought to have the contract price for of all
the species of provisions. contracted
Jonas Hanway could & I dare to say would have
given it me, but to I should not like to ask
him by letter. it would make a talk.
Lindegren could get it me. yes and he would
too. make him.
1779} S.B. Mittau
Dec:} to
18 } I.B. Linc. Inn.
Arrival
Leaf
Sheet 1.
Reced Jan. 11th
1780
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Consult him about the feasibility of contracting
for such species of Provision or any thing
else which might be furnished from this
place at a lower price than is at present
given. I wrote to you from Lictau Decr 6.
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Could I by any means depend upon knowing
any time before hand, when the importation of
wheat will be permitted. [when the ports will
be opened as it is called.] If I should at
any time have any concern in trade in this
country; intelligence of that kind would be of
very great consequence, sufficient so much as
to make it worth while to send an express
or half a dozen expresses to outstrip the post
and to pay handsomely also for the intelligence.
but at the same time if it should be false much
would be lost. Might not Lind be able to do it.
5.
Have you already or will you when you go next to Brampton
get a description of the improvements & innovations in
the OEconomy (the arrangement of Shares &c) which Midleton
has introduced compared with the method before observed?
You can do this much better than I can do, only take
care not to frighten him with too many questions.
6.
I have eat a particular kind of bread here at
Mittau which is excellent and will keep good a twelve month
Is the importation of such things permitted?
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We then talked a little about Ofenberg how pleased
he was with his stay in England what civilities
&c he had received there upon which I got a bow
for what share I had contributed. We talked also
of my journey and then he began enquiring
about Mouskin Pouskin whom he has expected
several weeks to stop a few days in his way to
Petersburg. The young Baron Ofenberg the elder broth
has got a house ready furnished for his receptio
and the Duke told me he had sent a Cou
to his frontiers a fortnight ago to wait for
him and with horses prepared to bring him on.
He then said he was excedingly sorry that he had not
known the time of my coming as he had intended
to have done the same for me, but for th
I should come by that means more expediously and
with less trouble, but that as it was he must
content himself with reserving to himself that
honour till my return.
This to be sure is mighty clear but I would
rather he should afford me inducement to stay
than send me away with such honour: besides
that he means when I return to England when
it is not very probable that I shall pass
through this way. However at all events as
it is not improbable but I may have something
to do further northward it is no bad thing
to have such a half way house.
The Dutchess then came up and the Duke turned to
somebody else. Madame & I then had a tête à tê
together at one of the windows for I suppose 4 or 5 minutes
till somebody else came up. Klopman then
came and presented me to the Dutchess's father and
then to Baron Frank to both of that I might give
them my letters. Afterwards I had a little more
conversation with the Duke and Dutchess about their
going to England. He talks much of going for a
twelve month, but that he should by means confine
himself to London intending to travel to the extremities
of Scotland & Ireland. He is about 56 or
57 but thinks I suppose because he has got a young
wife scarcely 18 that he may be talking of making
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