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£150,000 upon one single charity, which is what Cox in his account of
the Russian prisons (a pamphlet which I shewed you once) says Dimidoff
laid out upon the an hospital at Moscow. As to his Sam's mentioning Dimidoff
as a third person, I thought that might perhaps only be a blind
as I have known him I forget on what occasions lay great stress
upon the necessity he said there was of being a good deal upon the reserve
with regard to names. Upon farther consideration however I it has
appeared to me not improbable but that the person might be Count
Rozamouski Resamousky whom he mentions in a letter written not a great while
after his first arrival in Petersburgh as having about 70,000£ a year.
It was at this mans house I believe that Sam dined in company
with the Empress, which squares very well with what he
about the person's interest at court being so strong.
The circumstance that Sam alludes to in the conversations that passed
between Ld Shelburne & me relative to him was one which I suppose
did not occurr to me at the time of my giving you an account
of those conversations. It was, that of his Lordship's advising that on
his return home he should not omitt visiting the dockyard in
Sweden & Denmark. In reply to that, I talked of the expence such
a measure would require, & of the opportunities he had of staying where
he was and trying some experiments from the success of which he had
expectations, without any such expence — Then came the offer about the house
at Wycomb, & Ten thousand pound, & so forth as I told you, & as I told him not
omitting
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Jeremy Bentham |
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