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expectation of any more, nor was he by any means
determined to leave her even that if we
could but rub on any how so long as he lived
he had tho' satisfaction of thinking we shou'd
each of us find a very comfortable competency
upon his death.
6. Terms. v .20
With respect to terms I think a sine
qua non shold be your being paid your
salary a twelvemonth or at least half a year
in advance. By that means you would have
it in your power to force them to punctual
payment by threatening to resign & even
actually resigning in case of any delay:
whereas if they once run in arrear to you,
you will be at their mercy and poverty
may force you to stay whether you will or
no. I should hope you might be able to
get a seat at their board of Admiralty for
which demand the attention you have paid to the
subject of Oeconomy would be a very good
foundation. If you got any extraordinary
powers, such a seal would be almost a necessary
means of supporting them & getting
them respected.
7.
Considering the state of your finances,
I can not but be inclined to hope you may
have laid aside your intended tour to
Sweden, unless, what think not probable
they should have been disposed to send you
shorter. In that case I should think you
must first have engaged in their service
otherwise I don't very well comprehend
what should be their inducement. After all
it would be a great confidence for them to put
in you: for what should insure to them your
coming back?
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8.
In all points too I hope you will draw
your affairs to a crisis as soon as possible:
first trying the agency scheme, & if that
fails closing with Ch. as soon as you are
satisfied that nothing more is to be made
by affecting indifference & holding out.
As to my own part, 120 of my "4"
pages are printed off: I think there will
be about not quite so as much more, exclusive of the
Preface, which is not yet digested out of
Prefat. My translation I find has been at
a stand owing to my not undertaking
premeptorily that he should have liberty
to publish it without waiting for the
decision of the Berni people. I have
now given up that point (in consequence
of your intelligence) and Swede tells me
he (Leonserdi is his name) is now satisfied and will go on. I
am to see Leonserdi tomorrow, & then we
shall settles every thing. He has written
to his bookseller. I understand he had
translated some time ago two sheets out of
the 15. I will now do every thing I
can to hasten him. The translation
will be sent by 6 sheets at a time
to Leipzig. From Leipzig Swede
says the conveyance is easy to Petersburgh.
Tell me without fail whom you
would have the copies directed to that
are to be sent to Petersburgh. The Introd.
will I think be printed by about 16th
of next month (June) the Preface will
I hope take up about a week or 10
days more, unless I should think it worth
while to give it to another printer. I go
on very regularly with my 3 sheets a week
May 1780
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