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of the hand, your discharge whenever you
please into the next hollow: and the
mechanism though I did not stay to
examine it seemed simple. Let me
recollect; you and I were once together
and saw that with the rest.

All this while I should tell you that
the sine quâ non, the credit on the
Banker, is not yet arrived: but even if
it were, and were the wished-for appointment
from Potemkin come; I
suppose you would hardly think it advisable
to engage with anybody to
go over till you had been on the
spot, and seen whether you should
like to take any part of in the management:
but if you were clearly and
absolutely determined not to think of it
for yourself, then if with a view of
serving any person whom you thought
capable of undertaking such a charge
you had a mind to turn it over altogether to
such person, I should have no objection:
but in that case, my brother
and I should not interest ourselves any
farther in the affair, except that upon
the credit of your recommendation,
I would deliver over to the person in question
what money I receive.

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In the event of your entertaining thoughts
of taking a part in the concern, I think
I should be disposed to approve the idea
which he seems to entertain of his having one
eighth, leaving to your unlimited disposal
the other three. The consideration for his
share would be, to the ground that he has
already made, since it is upon the confidence
that Ribanpier has on him and
his plans & recommendations that every thing turns.
2. the degree of stability he would give to the engagement,
by the apprehensions which the other
party would be in of violating it, supposing
that contrary to my Brother's opinion
of him he should find himself
disposed b so to do: 3 the support it might
lie in his way to give it by solliciting
any favours that might be thought advisable
to apply to government for, or at
least averting any discouragements. So
the trouble he would have to take in the
way of agency for instance by procuring any such
articles as might be wanted from Petersburgh
or from any other part of the
Empire, the by training servants as he talks of to serve
as interpreters &c: Under this head may
be included the share that I should take
in the business in sending such any articles that
might be wanted from hence; or if I were
out

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Date_1	1784-07-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
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Folio number	084	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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