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Directions about the Queries
1
I have written them upon one of the half pages that you may
tear them off from the rest for the purpose of consulting
about the answers. I suppose you may apply to our father
Messldr Browne, or Alderman Clarke; scratch out the
parenthesis in the first line and leave the questions general
or take a Prussian or Pole for the example.
2
If in your consultations you should hear of any occasions
now offer of laying out money in that way to the amount
of 4 or 5,000 £ a year dont fail to tell me of them.
3
I hope it wont take you up much time, but I must
command you to answer these Queries as fully as possible
and as soon as possible. Yes by the return of Post they
must be answered. I shall in all probability remain
here long enough to receive an answer from you to
these Queries and of course to this letter in general.
4.
If it should so be that a foreigner may have land secured
to him as well as an Englishman, then you have
only to say so, and the business is done, except with
respect to those queries about the advantages of Land
security (Query 7.).
5
Be not surprized at these Queries nor at the Directions for
the answering them neither think them of trifling
importance.
6
If you can answer them in an ostensible letter written
in french, do. Best in this case say nothing of the case
supposition of the case of the child in that same letter, but
answer them in general with respect to a foreigner without
concerning yourself with the what he may intend to do with
the estate. If however the circumstance of his having
a child who he means shall go to England hereafter to
take possession of it makes a difference, then tell me of
it in a seperate letter. also if the sex of the child makes
a difference or the age.
7
In the ostensible letter c you you may give me
any philosophical news &c. Do write a line to Marbercy if you
have his direction and enquire if he has begun with the German
language as I have some little hopes of sending for him on some
occasion or other. Beg him also to inform himself and
to give me some account of the number of men which
now (in the scarcity of Sailors) it Ships of different sizes
and manner of rigging require to Navigate them.
That is whenever he knows the size and sees the manner
of Shigging of a Vessel of any country whatever, that he
enquires the number of hands.
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Queries 1
Can a foreigner (a Pole for example) purchase land
(an estate) in England in his own name though he has
never been there? so that he might let it for the present
and at any future time go over and live upon it?
2
If he could not make the purchase in his own name, are
there any means by which he could secure to himself the
profits of the rents, by means of any agreement between him
and some Englishman residing in England & acting as his
Agent?
3
If it be necessary that a foreigner be naturalized
in England before he can purchase estates there
Suppose this foreigner should wish that one of his children
who is as yet very young, should hereafter go to England
and if necessary become naturalized and that in the mean
time he wishes to lay out the money which he intends
to give that child in buying an estate for it there.
How in such a case could he prevent the Agent whom
he employs in England from selling the estate and appropriating
to himself the money, or from Mortgaging
it, or even from taking to himself the profits of the
rent, and not giving it up to that child when
it should go itself to claim it?
4
If there should be no way, in which the property of
estate in question could be secured to the foreigner,
is there no way in which the Agent could be made
accountable to him for a Sum equal to the value of
the estate by way of debt or any such means. or if not
5
H Are there no means whatever by which this foreigner
could be made to have it in his power to injure this
Agent of his to any degree which shall be thought concluded upon
before as sufficient to deter him from appropriating the estate
to his own use. As for example if a debt a promisery note would not
be effective made to the foreigner, might it not be made
to a 3d person, another englishman, and then by being
given into the hands of the foreigner made to rest at his
will when it shall be enforced?
6
What effect would the foreigner's being in possession
of the title deeds &c have?
7.
How much pr Ct can one expect to make of money laid
out in this manner on the purchase of estates? 1st if
the it consist of land only or of houses? 2 What difference
will the distance of from London make? 3 what difference will
the present want of money in England make?
8.
If purchases could not be made by a foreigner, could
Mortgages be secured to him.
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