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Thorpe Monday Oct. 15.
I got here on Saturday evening about 7. It was quite
dark before I reached Oxford on Friday: the town pretends to be lighted
and paved upon the plan of London: but the lighting is very indifferently
performed: however there was just light enough to enable me to
patch up some sort of recollection of the old place, where so much of
my youth was idled away. I had learnt by that time that the only Coaches
which would suit me in point of time for the purpose of reaching this place
before night set out at 8 the next morning: so that I could not have much
time for looking about me; unless I made a day of it, which I was determined
not to do, since in that case there would be no avoiding a
multitude of sanglierical visits. In the remainder of the evening I
added to what little I could make up by good husbandry out of the
morning I got time enough to see whatever there was new in the appearance
of the town without breaking my incognito: the public observatory, a
new bridge or two, and the principal of the new houses. I got to Slough about
1/2 after 4 after dining on the road. Slough is about 21 miles from London.
the nearest place of any upon that road to Egham. I had no other
baggage with me than my fiddle case and a hatbox with a little
linen in them. I thought to have taken a postchaise at Slough:
but to my surprize I found there were none kept in that place.
So I left my baggage at an Inn there, and had the plea of necessity for
Following my own original inclination, which was to march on Foot.
The main body of my baggage I had left in the great trunk which you saw
under the care of Monsieur Tombol my Lord's Valet de chambre to be
sent after me to Slough by the Bath Waggon which is to reach Slough
this coming Wednesday 17:th and by way of disposing the people at Slough
to take the more care of it, it was my intention to have taken a postchaise
from thence: but Providence order'd it otherwise. God send it
safe to me tomorrow: I spoke to a man at Slough to dispatch it
to me here; provided it came into his hands: it is directed to be left at an
Inn which as I found had been shut up these two years.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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