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Body was full of the great things about to be done there. Three Ships of the
Line a year, and Sheds for the covering of 32, Frigates included,
were ordered to be built. There were also five or Six Frigates
lying below the Bar quite dismantled, & in a state scarce reparable.

Petersburg Jany 20. 1784
Prince Potemkin wishes me to go to Cherson. He makes me
Lieutenant Colonel in the Army, with a promise of Promoting
me, as soon as possible, to Colonel, perhaps within a year,
to give me 1200d Rubles Salary, and as much more for
Table money; as to Employment I am to do any
thing I thing myself fit for, and chase to do. He tells
me he means to transport the Dock yard below the Bar
and I may have the directing the new one.

He means I shod erect Planing Machines, and any
other Machines useful under his Command, which are
no less than all Machines possible, for his immediate Command
is all the Southern Part of the Country, and his indirect
Command is the whole Empire. Every thing I propose to him
he acceeds to. He speaks to me whenever I come into
the Room, giving me the bonjour, and makes me sit down
when Stan & Ribbands may come ten times without his asking
them to sit down, or even looking at them.

Identifier: | JB/540/006/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1784-01-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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