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I can tell.
The objections to your closing with
Czern. immediately are that then you will
be genè & will not be at liberty to compleat
your scheme of travelling. Another thing is
that then you would sink in certain aspects,
& not being on an independent footing
would not have so good a chance of
obtaining audience for prosecuting Introd. to
Code. Qu. whether you could not for a certain
time be employ'd without any certain
formal appointment: for instance to inspect
the state of the Boat Yard or Yards (if
there are more than one) and making your
report? But then there should be a certainty
of some recompense otherwise it were better
to close with the offer, & get an appointment
immediately.
Alas! my dear Sam, I have sinned
against heaven and before thee and am —
perhaps but the more worthy to be called
thy brother. I have let the first convoy go
without sending thee thy things: you are not
have them sent you therefore till the next: which
Raikes tells me will be in about 3 weeks
time.
I send you herewith inclosed M's
calculation of the no of hands employ'd on
board vessels.
I am writing this instant at the dirty
eating chop house. Swede I have found out in Cov. Garden
stinking indeed from the quantity of victuals &
multitude of people, but in other respects less dirty
than those we were wont to visit. You , for your
part I suppose have lost all idea of such
places.
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perhaps he might settle on you: though if he will oust
Madam, & will throw you in Q.S.P. itself into the bargain
which will tell for near 1,000 a year more. I dont see what
upon these unless it be the abstract of forming a connection with England.
Send me a Russian and French Grammar
& Dictionary by F or S
& any book in Russian
that you think I should like best. For instance
some of their laws, or a book of History.
136 pages of Introd. to Code are printed : tonight
there will be 144. Before I close this
I shall probably be able to tell you within
10 or 20 how many there will be in all.
my translation's done I have drawn up a
short Prospectus of the whole work, which he
intends to translate & get inserted in a German paper in which
he says all book advertisements are inserted
& which circulates all over Germany. He says
the translation will be printed ready for the
Michaelmas fair, but not sooner. A little
after Mich. therefore it will probably be, before
you have the translat. to present :
but you will have the original long before
Leonardi my translator writes for the [one of them] Hamburgh
News-paper. This is his principal employment
here. He likewise teaches German.
Sat 13 May. Mulf.
Le cousin has just been here. He did not stay long
He is going out of town for some days: at the
latter end of the week he returns: and then,
some-how or some-how, we shall settle your affairs.
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Agency
If you have not written to the D of C as I dare
say you have not, do not till you hear from me again
Get it for our friend the Privy Coun.r & he will give you half
I will give you instructions in my next which will be the next
post of the one after.
I should ever get an opportunity,
Miss P. about the pretty things that are to be seen
in England, cela bien donnent enver to see them:
cela will make her trouver bien any scheme that
holds out a prospect of seeing them: cela will make
her appreciate the idea of pleasure with England
and what belongs to it, & what is born in it, &
what might carry her there, Elle se trouverit
bien en passant to write your friend the Dutchess
of C. The brother might consent perhaps, & join in
it: but is there any chance, I wonder, of doing any
thing with the old folks? What a difference between
the 9,000 roubles a year of the other and the 7000 once
paid, which at the utmost Q.S.P. might be induced to give
you down upon the maid! vectri about £1500 a year which
perhaps
perhaps he might settle on you: though if he will oust
Madam, & will throw you in Q.S.P. itself into the bargain
which will tell for near 1,000 a year more. I dont see what
upon these unless it be the abstract of forming a connection with England.
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