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though you have proved an Entrapelus to him, it certainly was
not with Entrapelus's intentions. + If it had not been for an accident
this little misfortune might not have happened. I had no reason
to suspect that in Russia French silks were contraband: but
partly for certainty security & partly to save expence, I had been accustomed
to send every thing for Sam through Mr Shairpe
the Russia merchant of Broad Street, whom I have never
seen. Some little time before the cloaths were sent out I had
had occasion to write to him and has received no answer:
From thence I became apprehensive that I had worn him
out; and the things not being all ready at the time of my leaving
town, I saw no better means of managing the matter than
by leaving it in the hands of my Lincoln's Inn friends, who
sent the things in the ordinary way through some master of
a vessel whom they did not know. About a month or six
weeks afterwards I received a very civil letter from Mr
Shairpe, apologizing for not having answer'd mine sooner, and
mentioning as the reason for his silence his having been absent
on a long journey, from which he was but just arrived & at the end of which and not before my letter
had come into his hands.

All together we have very little reason to be pleased
with Custom-houses, for this is not the only misfortune of the kind that has
befallen us: we shall on both of the sides of the water have bought
experience

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+ Entrapelus inieungui nocere volibat | Vestimenter dabat pretiosa, says Horace who knew him.

Identifier: | JB/539/430/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-10-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	430	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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