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Mr Shairp an assignment on you for such a sum as was necessary
to set me even with the world and enable me in future to shift for
myself. I am under the greatest anxiety least the sum should
strike you as very great: yet at the same time I am not without
hopes, Sir, that when you consider the manner in which I have been received
at one of the most expensive Courts in Europe, the connections I
have formed, and the almost pardonable inducements you can well conceive
Sir, I must have had to launch into expences; that you will be sensible
I must have constantly kept to observed the most rigorous oeconomy
to have been able to restrain myself within these bounds.

My Salary at present does not amount to quite 200£ a year; but that
you may not have the least apprehension, Sir, of my making any
further demands on you, I even wish for your more perfect satisfaction
that you would write to Mr Shairpe here to assure him that you
will pay no more money for me.

Since my return from Siberia
I have never had any lodgings of my own. The inconveniencies I have
been put to for want of having a place where I could be free from
interruption with my papers about me here have been very great, but
absolute necessity not conveniency has prescribed the limits of my expences.
My income at present small as it is will admit of my having a comfortable
lodging and I have accordingly taken one which happened to be

Identifier: | JB/539/418/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-09-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	418	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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