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paying. Having by good or ill luck, but at any rate by rather
extraordinary luck, a £20 note by me at that time, I give it
him in discharge of the receipt, which I took together with the
difference. Now are you, and will be for some minutes or
some hours(for the experience of 35 years has taught me what
to look for on occasions of this sort) full of indignation and
contempt at the thought of my suffering myself to be gulled, as
you will call it, out of this money. The fact was that I was
nearly as unwilling to part with the money as you could have
been: but a day or two hence you will be sensible of the force
of what I have to observe to you. It was then the beginning of
March: at that time I could not be certain notwithstanding
the cautions I had subjoined but that my brother might be
coming post-haste from Petersburgh in consequence of what
L<hi rend="superscript">d Shelburne had in a manner forced me to write to him
about the Commissionership of the Navy: nor had I any demonstrative
proof but that his Lordship might have instructions
of some of other in my favour. Had I ever been disposed
to wave both those prospects and contest the matter it seemed
very problematical to me whether that letter of Sams to L<hi rend="superscript">d
Shelburne which you have seen would not at any rate have
furnished legal evidence to fix some of us with the responsibility
for

1783
Oct
JB - commissions
of the navy

Identifier: | JB/539/431/002 "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	431	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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