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If the Prince was occupied with nothing but the licence He
could not but have been very much pleased at zeal with
which you have acted to contribute to his views; but I fear
much that he may for want of leisure to attend to the
details in your letters may have found them troublesome
and be displeased at the idea of my having desired you
to write to him.

I thought however that you would
have collected from the manner of my writing to you on
the subject of the Commissions for the Crimea, that as he
would not fix the Salaries or terms of engagement himself
at a time even when being on the spot the minutiae<unclear> of
the business would be more in season that it was not
probable that he would like to be referred to about the
choice of persons at any other time.</p>

He desired me to
find these persons and he <unclear>orded

me credit for the furnishing
the expences. He expected then to hear no more of it till
the people made there appearance. It is done however
now and you before this time either setting out in
consequence of answers from him or what I fear is that
you the want of the degree of attention which you might
have expected may have stopt you. I shall be very unhappy

at hearing the latter to be the case, and a but will

Identifier: | JB/540/149/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1785-04-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	149	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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