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make an early application to Sneyd about Sam's appointments
the payment of which might depend as he thought in point of time, as
well as the allowance of charges under the head of extraordinaries,
upon favour: and he had proposed various expedients
to me for that purpose, such as his going with
me that afternoon or at any future day; he being in
the habit of talking to Sneyd & I believe sometimes to Frazer
about his brother's affairs. It seems that in the mean time
he had written about it to Allan to ask his advice
I very luckily declined every thing of that sort for the
letting him of the acquaintance you had with Sneyd: this
morning came a note from W. inclosing a letter from A.
in which he says that I should do very well to get myself
introduced to Mr Frazer upon the occasion of my brothers
remaining in that station, but that there would be the greatest
impropriety in my talking to Frazer either about credentials
or appointments, as persons in that situation never have
credentials, and that as to appointments though the office
commonly allows 2£ a day, yet it is given as a matter of
favour rather than of right: my sollicitations therefore he continues
would
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Jeremy Bentham |
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