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Brighthelmstone Sunday Aug. 7. 12 o'clock
1785
Hon.d Sir
Having a few minutes to spare I cannot employ
them better than by devoting them to your amusement — I am
here on the point of embarking on board the Capt.n Burton
for Dieppe — I arrived here yesterday by the Coach of at
about 6, and should have found the intermediate time hang rather
heavy on my hands, had it not been for the agreable woman who
is sitting opposite me, a Mrs Holdham wife of Mr Holdham, whose
name was Shuttleworth, which being a younger Brother of my old friend Bob S. he changed for his mother's estate. Her
husband lives at a place called Sochez or Sauchai or some such
name 5 miles from Dieppe with a Mr Wynne brother of a Sir
.... Wynne with whom they are upon a visit till they can
suit themselves with a house. An accident which befel the lady
and myself in common at the Coach office at Charing-cross threw
us into the same vehicle the stage-coach instead of the Post-Coach
alias Machine which we had both paid for, and as she is a pleasing
well-bred woman, I at least have no reason to repent the change
Th I was denied admission into the Machine in which I had
taken a place paying the whole passage, and I was glad, at the
expence of a person who had a still worse title than myself, to
get admission into the Stage Coach in which I had not taken a
place. During the wrangle the Machine drove off, and I thought
myself fortunate in being able to lay an embargo on the Stage-
Coach, till the Usurper a dirty Barber could be turned out.
I knew I had a right to take a Post-chaise at the Coach owner's
expence, but I did not care to load myself with that charge, trusting for
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Jeremy Bentham |
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