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yet though I frequently oppose him and scarce ever join
with him he takes it all in the best part imaginable.

I'll tell you how the matter stands between the Pr of W.
and Perdita. The common story is that she has got letters of
his in which he speaks disrespectfully of the King: and
that she is making use of them to extort money from him.
This is not the case: but the fact is that she has a direct
promissory letter for £20,000: written, I think it was, before possession This is what Ld P. told
us on Monday: before he left town he called on Ld Southampton
to pump him about it. Ld S. could not immediately
see him: meantime came in Ld Malden, who was come
as plenipo: for the lady for the express purpose of negotiating the matter with Ld S.
Ld P. devined his errand as he says, and by pretending
to know more than he did, picked the story out of him.

As to myself I have hitherto been compleatly idle; &
that partly from inclination, partly upon principle. Strangers
are lodged in a part of the house quite separate from that
which is inhabited by the family. I have a Adjoining to my bedchamber
I have a dressing room, and should have a servants room if I

Identifier: | JB/539/212/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1781-08-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	212	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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