JB/539/350/001

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Petersbourg June 2d OS 1783.

I told you by last post of my having given in a letter for the Empress
offering my Services to inspect the execution of the improvements I had
proposed in my paper of observations. I cannot as yet tell the answer
which she gave immediately on reading it, verbatim, but the tenour of it
was a desire of having me, and the liberty of choosing the place
with a kind of intimation that I should propose the terms made
of engagement. In short the whole of the manner in which the letter
was presented and the answer given was very flattering. I shall
know all much more about it tomorrow morning, but in the
mean time I cannot but let you know this much: besides
something came into my head yesterday which though I have not
sufficiently considered to yet the sooner I give you time to think about it the
better. First then is no reason to doubt her Majesty's being already
disposed to engage me. Secondly when she comes to know that I am
to be contracted with the ministerial business from the time of Sir James's
departure to the coming of the next Minster, my being thought in
my own country capable of executing that business cannot but raise
me in her opinion. The alarm that signal several persons in
power must be in from the idea of a person being employed in
an economical department with the probability of his having permission

Identifier: | JB/539/350/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	350	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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