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Epithalamica

As a lawyer, I can not avoid turning my thoughts to the legal consequences
of this hybridous conjunction. It won't be the first time of my reckoning
my chickens, or what comes to the same thing, your chickens, before they are
hatched. One good thing, is that as to all English privileges, you being an
Englishman, mauvais as you are, it is all the same where Asia
minor litters. They may inherit Q.S.P. and Browning-hill, trade without
paying alien's duty, and sit in Parliament if they can bribe any body
to choose them. With regard to Russian privileges and disadvantages, it will
be well worth your while to inform yourself whether it would be for their
advantage or otherwise to be whipped in Russia. So not there for example
a foolish sort of law, forbidding Russian subjects from
without leave? Can children born out of Russia, of a father not a Russian
inherit lands in Russia: and in particular lands in the province in
which Urinas lands, if she has any, are situated?

Then as to yourself, do not let the sound of the word tempt you to accept
much less to sollicit "naturalization", without obtaining a distinct conception
of the advantages or disadvantages that may attend it. You would not for
example forfeit any of your English rights exercisable in England: but
I am apt to think you would forfeit your claim to any protection from the
Ambassador of England.

Nor is the place of marriage perhaps a matter of entire indifference.
You are not so bewitched, I hope, as to be incapable of acknowledging, that marry
what you will, there may be occasions may hereafter happen, which may render
it eligible to a man to have the possibility of recovering his freedom: and that
even upon easier terms than that of having having been previously made a notorious
cuckold. In England, a man who has been married in England mad
for adultery get a divorce by act of Parliament after a deal of trouble and
at a most enormous expence. In Scotland he may be divorced for the same cause
at much less trouble & expence. In Sweden and Denmark he may get a divorce
for mere incompatibility of tempers. In a Catholic country no divorce at all. Learn if not too late how that matter stands in
Russia: and if it be possible, marry in the place which is best for marrying
in. Take notice that the foolish nincompoops called Legislators have not made
provision for half a tenth part of the varieties that may take place with relation
to such an affair. The parties, natural born subjects the one of one country
,the other of another: their marriage contracted for in a third; celebrated in a
fourth: in a cause of dissolution takes place in a 5th dissolution applied for in a
sixth

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Date_1	1784-04-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings	Epithalamica
Folio number	048	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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