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Dec:r 31. 1779. No bad letter this, as you will see, to
close the year with.
My dear Sam!
1
Nothing can exceed ye pleasure I have reced from reading the Letters you have sent, from
time to time, to your Brother, wch to save you the trouble I look upon as written to myself, and am
convinced yt no body ever carried so large a freight of valuable recommendations, as you have
done, but the agreable & respectful Reception you have met with where ever you have been,
must have been very flattering to you, I am sure it has been to me on your account, as I
am sensible bare recommendations alone wod not have done had not your own Conduct
and behaviour, given a Sanction to them. It shews how truly friendly & useful Sambrusky's
advise was to you, to visit & make yourself acquainted with other maritime places in
your way to Peters burg, where, the beneficial progress you have made in your Route
thither will I make no doubt, gain you a much better welcome in giving you so
much additional consequence, to what you carried out with you by your Letters from
home - The occurrences you have met with & the good use you appear to have made of
them cannot fail to have enlarg'd your Ideas, & qualified you, to turn still more to
your advantage what future Incidents may occur to you, your last Letter from
Lieban of the 6th instant pleases me above all - as the Intelligence you have gatherd
respecting the advantages likely to accrue to you by connecting yourself in Trade
with some responsible Merchant or Merchants in the place you mention'd seems
at first view & upon the first report to be very encouraging - My Assistance my
dear Child, as far as my abilities enable me you may be asured of; you
are not ignorant, that my property tho' some thing considerable is yet all in
Land, but I shall be willing to raise you £1000d & charge my Estate
with it, upon a reasonable Satisfaction of it's being to your advantage
and I am so far from being against it, that I would have you by no means
to lose sight of it — nevertheless, I dare say, you will think it rather premature,
to decide absolutely upon it, or as to the mode of engaging in it, till you
have been at Peters burg, and given yourself an opportunity of seeing or
judging how far & in what respect your other Schemes shall be practicable
you may possibly find yt some of those Schemes you propos'd to put in practise
or to attempt there, may coincide & tend to forward & facilitate the
business of such a kind of Partnership with a some House upon the Baltic.
you have had & will have great advantages in making acquaintances
with Persons upon the Spot, & making yourself so known to them, as to be
able to correspond with them for the purpose of procuring from them any
further useful Intelligence, you may find you have occasion for, upon
your return to England. for there is nothing so attaching, as a personal
knowledge of People upon the Spot of thier own Ground, it creates a Confidence
beyond what is possible to subsist between persons not immediately acquainted
with or known to Each other.
2
I was much pleas'd with the specimen you gave
us of your writing German, wch. I supposing was your own Penning. The
Letters & words make a pretty appearance, but to a Stranger to the language they appear
confused . It is certainly of the greatest Consequence to you to make yourself
thoroughly master of & acquainted with the german language, especially
for the purpose of a future Mercantile Correspondence; and tho', as I hope
and trust you will be settled here in the main, yet in visiting those
places upon the Baltic occasionally, the being able to speak the language of
the People your branch of business leads you to converse with, at the first hand
as it were, will be found very beneficial — as by that means, you will be
able to transact with Principals themselves The Duke of Courland, or rather
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Jeremy Bentham; Jeremiah Bentham |
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