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Petersburgh Jany 20th 1784 O.S.
No time was as yet fixed for the departure of the English Courier who
has been here some months and by whom I have given you to expect
news from me, but as another is just arrived with the news of the change
in the ministry Mr Fitzherbert dispatches one of them as soon as
possible. A small part only of what I had written in readiness for the
opportunity will be to be sent now as my circumstances of late
are entirely changed.

First I have to tell you that my love
affair is entirely put an end to. Gen: Landskoy [The Empress's favourite] had immediately on
the death of the Uncle without any application on my part to him
had interested himself so much in the affair as to let the aunt
& mother know that the Empress thought they did wrong to oppose
the young Countess's inclinations and promised that her
Majesty would promote me and do anything to give them
satisfaction. This only irritated the Aunt the more. When the
Uncle & father came the girl was watched more closely than ever:
yet she found means to write to me frequently and every body
seemed to be in our interests. She was ill, kept her room, and
her bed, and allarmed her friends, but could not soften them.
she offered to make her escape with me, or take any steps which
I would point out, could She but escape the vigilance of her keepers.
She offered money & diamonds to her one of her chambermaids,
but could not gain her assistance. When things were in this situation
the parents summoned all this force against her, and at length
after having her Mother at her feet foaming at the mouth
through despair, She, after half an hour's reflection sat down
and wrote to me a renounce. telling me that all had been tried
and that a sense of the unhappiness She caused in her family

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Date_1	1784-01-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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