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Pour ce qui regarde la probite je supplicroir
a V.A. de n'eparques aucuns des
moyens qu'ille croit pouvoir prendra pour
s'assurer de ce coti la. Il ma fari c'a ete toujours
mon sentiment toujours parce que la probite ne
doit jamais trouver a redore a aucun
des moyens epreuves doit <add> qu'on on pourrest se server employer pour [ on
metre en usage la poubiere
la distingues d'avec le contraire
Les reviens de mon pere sont pour la
plupart en fouds de terre, don't une partie quelques uns
par leur proximite a la residence royale
sont assez connus: ainsi V.A. pourait
tres s'asurer que je ne
suis pas [une] avanturier, &qu'en in employment
elle n'aurat a faire qu'avec
gens responsables ......
The Introduction to Code containing the
metaphysical part and all the general principles
I shall send you as soon as it is
printed without waiting for the rest, it will
make a little bit of a work by itself. &
who knows? possibly it might be advisable
to present that first. It will be printed
in the same letter & sized paper as the
Code.
In my next will probably be a
Wilsonian list of the Navy — I shall
write soon: probably in a post or two.
J.B. to S.B. April 4th 1789
With regard to people there dont be too forward
in telling them all you know; either perhaps
they will set no value upon it, seeing that you
set none, perhaps if they do they will make
use of your communicativeness by getting
it all out of you & gulling you without
paying you in any shape. The best way is
by which they may
see that your in possession of such or such
a piece of information; and then have it
to them to ask you for it if they think
proper: or you might cause it to be insinuated
by a third hand, (S. for example)
that you are in possession of such and
such things, & he might appear to be consorting
with them the properest means of
getting them out of you. If they ask you
directly to tell them so and so without offering
you any thing, you may turn it off without
affronting them or affecting incommunicativeness
by
by saying if it is a matter of instruction
that is wanted "ala c'est l'affaire d'un moment
ou ala demande du a expliquir:
if a paper, you are in possession of, you may
pretend not to be able to find it: then, in
order to induce you to be at the trouble of giving
the instructions or finding the paper, they may
make you offers.
Sii Tuesday morning April 4
Lindgren has just been calling on me ,
pressing me much to go and spend a week
with him: up to the chin in business
with 21 poires to take care of. He has been
enquiring of a lemma if the Victualling he
has no particular answer to give to the queries but
says in general that there are no provisions but
what can not be imported by law, or what
it will not answer to import. that biscuit
for nostrum can not now be imported: &
that as to portable very little is
and, & what is and can not be made
cheaper any where than here. All this
you see is very vague: if upon any particular occasion
it should be worth while, I will go down &
canvass the matter with him completely
The powder room of the Spanish
of battle ships he is close to the gun room: the
powder stored in bulk, & served up open in buckets.
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