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much reduced so much so that there is not above an
hundred pounds remaining upon it. Unless therefore I can
have some assistance in that very advantageous way which
I have proposed I shall soon begin to be distressed, the
consequence of which will be that I shall accept of any thing
I am offered here. I may appear to have pursued
a very extravagant plan too much so a good deal for my
circumstances, this however I cannot acede to. I have
tis true met with some unlucky circumstances with respect
to money which have cost me all together something more
than an hundred ponds. some of them were the effects of
want of experience and having nobody upon the occasions to
consult, others were purely the effect of unavoidable chance.
Yet from to one of these circumstances which alone cost me
between 50 & 60 £ I attribute the greatest part of the advantages
which I now have, and if it had been the last
penny I had in the world I should not upon the whole have
repented it. I am now by means of my friends and
Pleschijeff in particular in a way of providing myself with
all things necessary for use & shew (or rather I should have
said shew & use) will with the greatest oeconomy.
I shall frequent the best company or in short what almost
what company I please and have the best means of informing
myself with respect to everything I wish to attend
to. Dont you plague yourself happen what will with the pass that I
shall involve myself in absolute inextricable
difficulties.
With respect to money matters my good friend here knows my circumstances and I
know his and notwithstanding our the shortness of the time
that we have been acquainted upon his seeing me one day a little
low spirited from bodily pain suspecting it might be from
some so money matters he told me I should
never suffer any inconveniency on that account while he
had either money or credit. His resource you well know
I should go to with great reluctance on account of the
very great obligation and also on account of the necessity
I should think myself under of repaying with the very
first money I should have however inconvenient not only
the sum borrowed but with the exorbitant interest
which he would have been obliged to pay for it.
It is not uncommon for people here who have a sudden
occasion for money (which often happens from the passion for
gaming) to give 15 or 20 pr Ct for a great sum only
for 3 or 4 months and to deposit their jewels for
security. This passion for gaming makes the strangest
fluctuation of money among the greatest part of the
Nobility. To this passion however I am totally unfeeling.
I have not yet touched a card not any other game for in
which money is concerned except that I lost a very few half dollars
at Billiards with the Duke at Mittaw, & that with my eyes
open. My illness is very expensive to me but good
even is come from that. My stomach hence forward
I hope will cost me nothing. My difficulty will
be to avoid invitations not to search for them.
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My father has often expressed his wishes to both of us that your
circumstances ni were bettered that you were able to live
in a more comfortable and in appearance respectable a manner till
you had made your way adding at the same time
that the utmost exertion in his power should not be
wanting to accomplish that end. He now has it in
his power to do this without any other exertion than that
of confidence in our honesty. I take for granted that
in making me the allowance which he does, a in giving you
the estate which he gave you and in making up to you the
loss from the Malthouse, he does sets apart as much of
his fortune to our use as he can spare, and all that I can
therefore reasonably hope for is that he would be kind enough
to advance me the capital which he can procure by the paying
70£ pr year interest. If he would do this I should be
under the greatest obligations an to him and owe him the
warmest gratitude: He would do be a very essential service without
any injury to himself. Now then with respect to you. If
he would raise a Sum of money for your use for which you
should pay him his interest he is to pay for it. If that
sum was to the amount of six thousand pounds, you
would have three hundred a year in with the addition of what you
have at present without his being a penny the loser.
He would then have the satisfaction of seeing you live in a
manner much more agreable to his wishes as well as so much
more comfortable to yourself. He would then I am sure see
you frequent company which if not altogether precisely that
which he now wishes you sometimes to mix in, would be
such as would be more flattering to him.
Neither could you be the less dependant on You would
then be under infinitely greater obligations to him without
being at the same time less dependant on him. It would
be in his power to demand the sum of you again whenever
he should think proper, and it would be in your power to
return it him at the expiration of each year, thus he
might reduce you again to your old pittance.
If you should determine upon coming here this last
mentioned affair need not be thought of till you get here
and having received instruction from him you can if
possible still more satisfy him of the Security. With respect
however to the capital what is in your own power as well
as the capital which I dare flatter myself he will be kind
enough to advance me, that I hope may be sent directly
and whether you come or not. The exchange now is so exceedingly
favourable more so than it has ever been known
6 roubles for every pound the ordinary reckoning is but at
5 and Shairpe the Consul told me he had known it at
They need be told only that you want to send me such a sum of money
a little bit above 4. The way to send it would be to pay it into
to pay to somebody unless Lindgren could do it and you choose to put
a Merchant's hands in London either Li Raikes's Shairpe's &c
him into the confidence.
because Lindgren probably has not connections great enough with
Russia. Then to send me a letter of credit or their correspondent an
order to that amount.
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Samuel Bentham |
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