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Malthouse: it is but 20 guineas a year
indeed; but it is that clear of land tax; & were
it but twenty pence, it is so much got out
of the fire: provided always that the man
pays his rent.

1/4 after 10

W. has just called in and spent about
an hour him talking politics &c, and
so this letter will be the shorter for it.
I thought it but to lose no time in answering
yours and therefore shall not
keep it back a to fill it . As for
politics I am afraid of writing a syllable
about the matter for fear of the
letter being made prize of as W.'s was

Your ostensible letter having a few inaccuracies
was upon the whole not amiss in
point of stile: two or three good strokes
in the shewy way. That short bit of a
scrap of a thing from Chernobyl was
terrible. I don't know whether I told you
of it before, but there are some passages
which to this hour I cant make sense
of.

I received a letter yesterday from
La folle: D. I don't know whether I
told you ) has been to Wales: he was out
about a month & came here about
a\ fortnight ago in excellent health and
spirits. As for her she says she never was
better not happier in her life. So all that
is mighty well.

There has been a Mr Dunstable, he
says enquiring for a book on Nav Archit

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which he says he lent you — and he asks
me whether I know anything of it. no
not I. Poor Mr Dunstable! I suppose
you have got it at Petersburgh. He
must bring his action in some of your fine
courts there. I shall probably go to
Brampton in about 6 weeks & I suppose
shall spend about a month there,
but in the mean time I shall take especial
measures for my letters being
forwarded immediately without rambling
to Q.S.P. &c

Encore une fois. I thought it best
to write forthwith that you might clear
your mind of the affair: which is the reason
of my not sending the Ship-building
extract from the Phil. Transt. I told
you of in my last.

Being near the conclusion of my
no-letter, I should begin as other great
men do, to make pothooks and hangers
such as the Devil himself can't read

There is a prospect of Mrs Accers's
being gathered to her fathers or mothers
or whatever it is she is to be gather'd to.
Her gout this season is attended with
other disorders: and the Doctor thinks
upon the whole she will hardly get the
better of this bout: but Mrs. D. has
better hopes.

Simmons has lep off to Linquist who
now is no small personage. I hope this
poor man's name will not dub my letter
a political one.

Identifier: | JB/539/106/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1780-11-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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