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neighborhood must be abandoned, at least for the present. I m
must certainly quit Petersburgh till the affair is blown over
out of delicacy to her; so that it is lucky that an offer of
Prince Potemkin's affords me a good opportunity. He 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 12,00 Rubles
salary, and as much more for table money. As to employment
I am to do anything I think myself fit for & choose to do.
He tells me he means to transport the Dockyard below the bar,
and I may have the directing the new one, and for this purpose
he proposed my being in the Navy, but as I should then be in
some measure under Ozernishev's orders, and depend in some
degree on him for promotion, and as a friend of mine told him
of Ozernichevs being not well disposed to me; he then said he
would take me in the army, by which means I should depend
on himself alone. He means I should erect planing machine and
any other machines usefull under his command which are no
less than almost all machines possible, for his immediate command
is all the southern part of the country and his indirect command
is the whole Empire: but he is so indolent as not to have given
yet the orders necessary to take me under his Command.
Everything I propose to him he accedes to, but does nothing. He
treats me with uncommon attention. I go to him at all times,
he speaks to me whenever I come into the room, giving me the
bonjour and makes me sit down, when Stars & ribbands may
come ten times without his asking them to sit down or
even looking at them: but I have had enough of such unavailing distinction

Identifier: | JB/540/008/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1784-01-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	008	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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