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Sept.r 18th 1785 P.S. to J.h Bentham Esqr
I saw yesterday a letter from Algiers dated 26th August which speaks
of a peace with Spain as an event no longer probable.
A letter from Tripoli dated 1 July says 2138 persons being 1/5 of the
inhabitants had died there of the plague in 14 days. Another day had
carried off 238 being 1/40 of the remainder
Pray send this to Mr these letters to the Lord Mayor, desiring
him when he has done with them to forward them to Mr Mulford.
Fils Jeremy B.
Letter datd. Genoa
18th Sepr. 1785
being the Appendix
to one datd. 17th Sepr. 1785
carried on upon a footing of tolerable convenience, the persons concerned must act without a
motive. The vehicle I was convey'd in from Rouen to Paris was either a prototype or
an imitation (if an imitation a very humble one indeed) of our English Mail-Coaches:
The distresses I suffer'd in it were such, that out of pure spite, I can not help
insulting the French upon every occasion with the comparison. The greatest was the
a compound fracture in the blade of the Russian Colonel's sword. Paris supplied
a new blade not distinguishable from the former; and I flatter myself
that in the eyes of a judicious metaphysician the identity of the object will not
be destroy'd by the reparation. If any friend of mine were to propose taking a
pleasurable excursion in this country I would beg him as he tender'd his own comfort
to take a list of the things he should provide himself with before he crosses the
channel: and, bating eatables and drinkables and a very few wearables indeed, this
list would contain all the portable conveniences of life. Fifty Coaches to serve as Fiacres
have lately been imported into Paris from Liverpool at 60 guineas apiece. Nobody who for love
or money can get one of these English Hackney-Coaches will darken the doors of a Parisian
one. It is rare however that they are to be met with for ordinary occasions:
they are generally engaged for the wedding-feasts of the Bourgeoisie: which as your Lordship
knows are in this country celebrated with great parade. If the English goods which
were bought up with so much avidity were worth nothing when they got here, or if the money
which a part of them were perhaps bought with were not to be had for commodities as commodities are
for money, or if it is right to take money out of the hands of a husband man or any body else in
order to put it into the pocket of a clumsy manufacturer, the French may not have been much in the
wrong in their late rigorous tho' polite prohibition of English goods. I am, ever your Ldships most devoted J.B.
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