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I cannot help wishing that Projet should not be printed till we meet.
Considering your engagement here in the light you now seem to consider
it, were you to have advantageous offers made you, I should be far
from opposing your accepting them. Such an employment might
certainly by distinguishing you promote the execution of your
ideas of reform at home, and therefore if it were for a short time
not exceeding 2 or 3 years and I should rejoice exceedingly at such
an event. I have however very little expectations of any such offers
being made you, and I cannot bear you offering your Services.
The Empress herself will never read your work, nor any one
of her Ministers beyond the title page. It is therefore only from
your reputation elsewhere that she would think of making you offers
and that reputation once gained and you would not want her
assistance.

An idea just now strikes, of a possible means by
which the Empress might be made acquainted with the principles
on which your work is founded, so and by which the short striking
ideas might be exhibited so as to make her interest herself in
the work itself.

I told you of a periodical work that is
published here at the Academy under the immediate management
of the Princess Dashkoff, it is in this work that she appears the Empress herself is giving the
history of this country. She also writes some other things in which
the aim is wit & humour more than scientific knowledge. The rest
consists of Poetry, and Satyr Satire & some moral tales. 2 or 3 months ago
there was published in this work a paper containing about 20 questions
relating to the government which would astonish you by that their freedom
one of them was "why are not trials in courts of justice printed?
another was "why do men of merit quit the service?

Princess Dashkoff showed this paper to the Empress before she dared permit it
to be printed. Leave however was obtained. Now in this same work one might

Identifier: | JB/539/455/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-10-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings	Code
Folio number	455	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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