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from her mother and her Uncle on her mother's side could not
fail to come, a comfortable pact at the line of marriage.
One thing I can pretty well assure you of is that I should
circumstances are such that I shall suffer less at my di this connection
being totally broken off than I do now when the of it is so uncertain.</del>
August Tuesday 22nd Zanko Sello.
I came here, dined with Bestarotky and after dinner he took me aside
and told me that ther with respect to Salary the Empress had fixed a alotted
a sum for the payment of the new Corps in which I was to be established
and that I might depend upon her satisfying me on that score
that with respect to rank he would wish that I would tell him
frankly what would wa satisfy me. I told him 1st that I
understood there were to be many foreigners in the Corps and that
I relyed upon her Majesty's gracious disposition towards me
that 2nd that I should be above all those and inferior only to
to the Minister in whose department my business would lie.
That I understood there was a Dutchman taken in the service
in the same corps who had obtained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel
To this he replied that the Dutchman was taken into the
Corps of Engineers and that nobody was as yet fixed in
the new Corps in which I was to be. I then gave intimated
the offer made me at home and pleaded for the rank of
Brigadier. This however they will not give me but
possibly may that of Colonel. He desired me to come here
again between 10 and 11 on Fryday morning and he hoped
all would be settled: that I might depend on his intimating
himself with her Majesty to gain me the best terms possible.
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