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by a great deal ( it is not necessary to enter
here into dissensions for the sake of stating
exactly by how much) make what you
had sufficient to answer your letter of credit.
Under this
Under these circumstances surely it
was your business to have accepted C's offer:
or at least to have given very strong reasons
for not accepting it. You do not even intimate
that you have left a door open for accepting it
at a future time. One must conclude therefore
that you have not: though I by way of making
the best apology for you I could to Q.S.P. made
as if I took for granted that you had. Q.S.P.
has two hypotheses for accounting for this refusal:
one is, that no such offer was made: the other
is, that upon its' being made you consider'd with
yourself and found yourself not equal to the duties
of the office: "being fit", (says he) "as he says
"himself, for nothing but to invent". Wilson has
a third, which seems more probable at least than
the first: viz: that some wishes to have you in
the service were thrown out in a general way to
third persons; but no express offer made to yourself,
or express commission given to a third
persons to make any such express offer.
Well then, instead of accepting this offer
(supposing it to have been made) you embark
in another project in which you are forced to
appear in opposition to the person who had made
it you. And have you a probable chance of
carrying bringing your project to bear in spite of such
an opposition? Very likely you have I hope
you have, and from the post you have taken
am rather inclined to think you have: certainly
it is not for me with so few data
before me to presume that you have not
But
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But Mr Samuel, have you made provision
for the contingency of your failing, in
that, and have you settled with yourself what
is to become of you in that event? Have
you secured any pis-aller ? or any means
of contingency to subsist in Russia, or any
where else?
And this brings me to my 3d head of accusation,
the building upon the prospect of
getting a capital from hence. For this, I very
much fear was the pis-aller you hold in view
Being to have that, you need not care a fig
for any body's offers: being to have that, it
would be a pity to forego the opportunity of
going in agreable company to the Black Sea
For on what else upon earth could you have
been building when you mentioned (as you
have done in several passages) as a matter of
doubt whether you should stay there and accept
of any thing whatever? Moreover in the
same breath you were to come over here and
to go to Sweden: and still without any other
means than those.
But the most disheartening of all to me
was the idea you threw out of claims and
expectations you would have were you to return
Now this was a matter that I could judge of
and what is more, that Q.S.P. could judge
of, as well as you how not being able to see
the least reason for supposing that so long
as Ld S. continued at the head of affairs here
you could possibly have a chance worth a
straw for a single penny, it perfectly astonished
me to see you building upon any such
hopes. Finding then your judgement so unsound
upon this article, what degree of confidence can
I place upon in it on others?
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Jeremy Bentham |
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