JB/539/430/001

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Linstead near Sittingbourne
Friday Oct. 24. 1783

Hon:d Sir

I am to thank you for two letters, one of the
12th inst: the other of the 19. The reflections they contain would
have been in great measure superseded could I have convey'd
along with the packets to which they allude the letter
I now inclose to you: hopes and fears have now given place
to certainty: but whether you will think that a certain Lieutenant
Colonelcy is equal to a possible Colonelcy, or a
certain 1000 roubles to an expected nay promised 1200 or
1500, is more than I can venture to assure myself. One thing
I can inform you from the best authority, that this 1000
roubles, shabby as it is, is more by 150 roubles than is given
to the chief Judge of the principal court of justice
in a Province of the first magnitude: and four times as
much as is given to a Captain in a Regiment. This
I speak from the Empress's Constitutional Code which
I is lying before me on the table. The rank, such as
it is, will at any rate, I hope, answer his main purposes
as he seems to think it will.

You will be vext no doubt at perceiving the scrape
which you have been the innocent cause of drawing him into:
though

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Date_1	1783-10-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
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