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experience at a pretty dear rate. You remember the old story of
the minerals which came directed to L<hi rend="superscript">d Shelburne</hi>: and among
which the box of Petersburgh, by passing as it shoud seem for a box
of minerals, as it was inclosed in a larger box which contained nothing else but minerals happened to escape duty. I told you at the time or
soon afterwards of what passed on that subject between Ld Shelburne
and myself; and of his taking the matter upon himself in
the most explicit manner. As he told me at the same time of
having paid a franked Linquist's goods among which was a very
large cargo of French wines with the public money, I concluded of
course that whatever charge, if any, there might be upon the very
trifling articles that were consigned to me, would be paid for in
the same manner. It would have been a very improper application
of the public money, doubtless: but that was his concern,
I certainly should not have asked him to do any thing for me
in any such way; but when he offer'd it it would have been
ridiculous and very offensive to him to have stopped his hand. After a number of delays,
at last, as you know I got the minerals: but of the silks and
as I told you, nothing positive could as yet be said. In the
mean time came one day to my chambers <foreign>Mons.<hi rend="superscript">r </foreign>Frombel, my
Lord's Valet de Chambre, with a bill for the charges attending
these things, and a receipt to it given by a man of the name
of Marshall, to the amount of £19 within a few shillings;
which bill upon my asking him, he said he had just been
paying.</hi>
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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