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the greater chance of its finding in town: but I while I was writing the
direction it bethought me that I might contrive for it to be sent to you
in case of his not being in town and for that purpose added to that
it should be sent to Q.S. P. in case of absence. If you have received that
letter you may be perhaps at first displeased certainly astonished at the subject
of it and think I am pursuing every thing and sticking to nothing.
I may also be thought guilty of a great piece of folly in
imagining that such a place as Resident at a anywhere whatever
should remain so long unfilled or that it should be attainable by me
though it be vacant. Think of it in the favourable light and it will shew
that I am not disposed to let any possible channel establishing
myself go by me, not to loose any thing for want of asking nor or for
want of pushing my friends to give me their assistance.

Timber & Shipbuilding business with my friend the Count Chadkiavich either
from some of his estates to the black sea or from others by the River Merud
to the town of Meinel or to Koningsberg will take my attention immediately
in case of my present pursuits not succeeding. And the place of the Commissary
at Dantzic would might be made of assistance to these plans; possibly in
the way of promoting the trade commerce immediately: certainly in the way of affording me an a
opportunity of something certain while laying the plan of it. When I tell you that this said Count is
possessed of perhaps 5 thousand square english miles of land enough to make 3 or 4
such counties as the county of Sussex; and that he has between 30 and 40 thousand
souls his subjects of Vassals which he may dispose of as he pleases, 200 domestiques and also soldiers of his own
and that this same Count he professes & I believe really has an extraordinary degree of friendship for me:
you may think from such circumstances that any commercial connection
with him must be productive of amazing advantages; but when you consider
that he has not to all this land above 7,000 working men and that the

Identifier: | JB/539/110/002 "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	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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