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110

Petersburg 3.d October O.S. 1780.

Dear Sir

As to the as capital which I before thought you might from the consideration
of the great interest be disposed to send me; I should never have mentioned
but under the notion of your not making more than five per cent of
many in England and of your being able to raise any sum of money
upon your estates upon the paying of that interest. The account you
have given me to the contrary shows me at once the un admirableness and
impracticality of it. I also see that I must not think of procuring any capital
though it should be for the putting into however advantageous.

I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude for your having taken such
steps as to have a farther augmentation of my
Beaker's here, for though you may depend upon my not exeeding the
bounds which you have here to set me yet the appearance
of having the mere credit would have very bad. I wonder that
you or my brother have not explained the matter how I came to
have this encrease of credit through his degree; I dare to say you
must have done it, and the letter is not come to hand.

I wrote to you by last post a long letter calculated rather for the answering
a particular purpose the to not but the facts were all truly stated
but with a catouring and turn of expression which thy would not otherwise have
had. I this better to my brother who I thought there would be

Identifier: | JB/539/110/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1780-10-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	110	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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