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1. And. Potatoes 2. J.B. to C. 2 do. 3. Mittandu quando. 4 at
Q.S.P. 5. Nav. List. 6. Jur.y d. 7. Lo-prey.
From Lond. Packet. Wed. May 10. 1780
... " A discovery is made by a person in Wiltshire
of a method of rendering salt or putrid water
fresh without the help of fire. This has been
communicated to Ld Sand: & the Board of Adm.y
who have appointed Sat.y fortnight for the experiment
before the Board, the person being order'd
to attend for that purpose."
Anderson is upon the point going of setting up a weekly newspaper
here. If you can send over any literary
intelligence &c to feed it with, do. This
may be turned to some account: we might
make him put in paragraphs that would be
for the good of the service. Might it not
answer, if you were become a member of the
oeconomic society to make a paragraph giving
an account of the proceedings the day of
your reception and so introducing incidentally
the account of your being admitted?
Wilson tells me that Q.S.P. called here today
(May 10th) to desire me to recommend it
to you to establish yourself there in preference
to the Courland Scheme: and with regard to
terms to say that you could not accept of
less than Busch has, who is said to have
4 or 500 £S a year besides a Coach kept
for him.
I have just received your letter enclosing one about
D. I am vexed to think of your being
so sanguine about my coming, and of your disappointment
which must be the consequence
of it: a as if you had nothing to do
but to beckon to me at 3000 miles distance &
I must come of course, & to form a complicated
scheme demanding upon a thousand contingencies
& it must succeed of course. I think however
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On, and inter alios, even the unapproving Wilson
takes notice of the improvements in your stile.
But there is one awkward word sticks by you
which is the word exceedingly. Exceedingly
has flattened [in your scrap about D.] a sentence
which you meant should be energetic. In such
cases you may say beyond measure, conception,
imagination: more than you can
would, could conceive, imagine, have imagined,
have conceived: more than I can express:
&c -orum.
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however you have learnt to bear disappointments
tolerably well, and what you will have
heard before this about my beginning printing, will
have contributed towards letting you down by
degrees. I shall not shew a syllable of this
letter to Q.S.P. he will be confirmed in
his suspicion that your head is turned: &
he will be disappointed beyond measure at
seeing no account of your reception at Cz.
& Sr James's. You mention indeed acquaintances
& connections !! But a any
other acquaintances than Czinf or such as
may to be. You talk also of springs
and "gizzards" - but a quoi bon see into
any other gizzards or set to work or be at the pains of
watching any other spring. Those such as may contribute
to give him the proper bias? Unless indeed by
great chance there should be any rich & powerful
fathers who have beautiful & accomplished
daughters. Well, for my part, I would
take up with Miss P. for a sister-in-law
notwithstanding her papa's sangliers are
dwindled from 6, to 3000. What I want above
all things, is to see you secure of a subsistence
for how any more money is to be got after
that you have is gone is more protest than
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