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Barnaoul August 2d O.S. 1782.

At my arrival here I was most vexatiously disappointed at not finding a
letter from you. Yet I am certain that upon the change of the Ministry
you must have had something to say to me. The packet containing
the last news I had from England I answered from Irkutsk by a
long letter which on account of the time I sent it should reach you before
this: but on account of the different manner of its going probably this
will follow close after. My last news then from England except
what I learn by the Russian Gazette is of the 21st Octr 1781. nearly
10 months ago. This delay in sending me letters I attribute to the
impossibility that the per my friends at Petersbourg think there is to
send letters to any person in Siberia. The truth is the post goes every
week and there is no more difficulty with respect to the examination
of letters or any other account whatever in sending letters
to Siberia than to any other part of the Russian or for what I know
any other Empire. One letter & one only I have reason to believe
is lost on its way to me, but that probably was
not sent by the post.

The Gazette tell as that the Duke of Richmond has reduced the yearly
expenses of his department to the 400,000£. God grant it may be true!
God grant also that the same spirit of OEconomy & patriotism may
inspire those who preside in other departments! and that particularly
with respect to the Marine that it may be perceived that everything

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