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as no data from which we can judge of the precise nature of the
undertaking, or of the profits to be reaped from it. The sheets I now
send you, to confess the truth came with his last letter. I forbear
shewing these to you, first, because as you will see he desired it,
& secondly because I did not like you should be harassed with projects
which might prove abortive. As he has it now absolutely
in his power to engage in a plan which he seems to prefer even
to that very advantageous one, this latter objection as well as the
former is now at an end. Till I knew this of Dimidoff's, I
was a little vexed at his not closing immediately with the others;
though at the same time I imagined several other good reasons
as possible at least which to you I feared might not prove
so satisfactory as to me. Within a day or two after I received
the sheets herewith inclosed, I wrote to him a long letter, turning chiefly
upon the philosophy of the salt-works, & the manner of negotiating
with the Baron: their latter part in French, that being the
language in which the treaty would be carried on. The warmth
with which I enter'd into that project, with some other circumstances
which I cannot particularly recollect will I am sure be sufficient
to stop the alteration which you will see he had thoughts
of making in his plans in consequence of what I had written
to him by the direction of Lord Shelburne. That letter he must
have had a chance of receiving very soon, after the time of his
writing

Identifier: | JB/539/302/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1782-10-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	302	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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