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Ld S. says that Ld Chatham who governed every body else with so
high a hand was himself governed in a manner by the K. of Prussia,
who gave him information and suggested ideas to him even for his
maritime operations. This appears from a suite of letters from the
K. to Ld C. of which Ld S. has either the originals or copies, &
which I, I believe, may see.

I mistook — Ld Porchester upon Ld Pembroke's account
lose about £3500 — Supposing that he should be ruined, he had
sent over an agent to the continent to look out for a retreat.

Tuesday Aug. 28 8 in the evening

"An Historical account of the settlement & possession of Bombay
"and of the rise and progress of the war with the Mahratta nation.
"Printed for Robson New Bond Street 1781." It is not yet published:
Ld S. says it is by Master Pechel: it contains information which
there is no other means of coming at: in that respect it is valuable:
but for composition it is I think the vilest stuff I ever
met with. I have just read it. This is one of the pleasant
incidents attendant upon great houses: meeting with unedited books,
or books of the day before they are to be had elsewhere.

This morning came a packet to Ld S. from France. It contained
2 MS papers: the one a journal of the operations of de Grasse from his sailing from
France to the day of the troops abandoning St Lucie: the other a letter of Count Dillons
from that period to the taking of Tobago. The first man says the post in St




Identifier: | JB/539/217/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.

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1781-08-26

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217

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002

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Jeremy Bentham

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