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Crown reap from these works. At a low computation I should 290
acquire after the 2 first years a surplus of profit to the amount
of 10 or 12,000 pounds sterling a year, and afterwards probably
much more, neither would the first year be without
their surplus.

Such an establishment as this however
would not in this country be sufficient a man who is
not in an employment under the Crown however rich
he may be is but a little respected. Therefore besides
this as a source of profit there must be an employment
of another kind as a source of respect. What this latter
should be, what service I might ask in which I could
most distinguish myself I did not think it necessary to
determine on till I get back to Petersbourg considering
however some representations I should have to make and that
trouble or distance of situation were no scruple with me
I did not doubt the procuring one an office a charge to suit
my purpose.

With these views I had just drawn in my own
mind the line between the attention I should give to my own
interest & that of the Crown. What are the kind of perquisites
or emoluments I should accept of. How I should avoid the
ill consequences of my refusing others, and how far it was
possible to put myself out of the necessity of conniving at abuses.
To gain this knowledge so much of it as particularly depends
on the manners of this country it was necessary that I
should spend such a length of time at several places as
should be sufficient to see into the real character and
springs of motion of those who occupy different kinds of
charges offices.

As to the impossibility of introducing improvements here which
you seem to insinuate, in this country as I believe in most others
where improvements or innovations oppose in any way the interest
of those in power the consequence may very well be that their
introduction may be impeded for a time or that they may be
altogether rejected and perhaps those in power here having less patriotism

Identifier: | JB/539/290/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1782-06-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	290	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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