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4. Letters
This is the 3d letter I have written through
Sneyd, all since my return from Brampton.
Your two of April 8. & 11 came on Saturday.
By the two you will have seen how I
am engaged in , and therefore I dare say
have given up the idea of my visiting Petersburgh
in a hurry.
5. Money As to the money-investing
scheme I am sorry you should have set your
heart so much on it as you appear to have
done. If it had depended only on myself I
should have been contented probably to have
pinned my faith upon your judgment, but
I much wonder you should be so sanguine
in your expectations that Q.S.P. should. Contrary
however to all expectation he did seem
to lend an ear to it upon reading the ostensible
letter (April 8th) in which the subject is lightly
touched, and went so far as top talk of raising
to the extent formerly proposed. I then thought
I could do no than leave him the
other ( all but the 1/2 sheet against Q.S.P.)
(We were alone together at Q.S.P.) This
however blew up the scheme altogether. You
talked of 10 money things at once, that they
quite confounded him. I had begun with assuring
him (before I shew'd him any either of the
letters) that I for my part should not think
of going. This was a great comfort to him.
This was yesterday [Sunday 7th
] This morning Monday
8th) he came to me and we discussed it. He began
bellowing against it; but I soon
made him lower his note: however the result
is that he will do no such thing. The truth
is, that he has been ever so well disposed
it is much to be doubted whether he could
effected it: Money is scarcer here than you
can conceive. What you throw out at random
about going to the Ukraine without any earthly reason
but
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but that of its being a fine country produced
a very bad effect, & gave a bad colour to your
journey to Moscow, for which in truth, taking
the matter upon your own shewing I condemn
you altogether. It is unlucky too that you have
not given some circumstances respecting your
overturn, as your scheme in that head has
given Mrs Q.S.P. a handle for breaking it
as a fiction.
5
What you would hardly have expected,
he seems perfectly well satisfied & even
desirous that you should accept the offer
made you and settle there: he even seems
to put it upon a level with the Courland
scheme. Should the former take place, I
should not absolutely despair of bringing
him to advance some money, which then
you might lay out in the manner you propose.
One might trump up a story of a capital
being wanted for some purpose or other,
for instanced to buy materials for boats &c
or by representing to him that there is no
more hazard in this than in trade &c
Being then settled on the spot, he would be
satisfied that you might have it in your
power to watch over the security & so forth.
All this which I am certain Mrs Q.S.P.
was not taken into connect. D'Allieurs he
was very affectionate, and that if we were
both to be over there he verily believes he
should go over too, and talked rather slightingly
of Madam: that to be sure she was
a very agreable companion to him and contributed
to render his life comfortable, but that
with regard to money matters he certainly
should not do more than leave her Q.S.P.
during her widowhood, not had she any expectation
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Samuel Bentham |
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