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man, totally devoid of acrimony. On the other hand the persons in whose
company I have found him are very odd whimsical characters, of unpolished
manners, composing a very small set who I observe live much among themselves, and
with whom the others as I am informed will not associate, but for what reason
I have not learnt

At Genoa I heard some particulars relative to the manner in which
the bullion is carried out of Spain; for instance from Barcelona. The
Spanish proprietor is at the trouble and risk of sending it as far as
14 leagues out to sea to a longitude and latitude agreed upon. There
it is taken up by a foreign vessel, suppose an English one: the Captain
has 1 per Cent, only for only carrying it from Barcelona to Genoa. My informant
was a Captain Simpson a Scotchman commander of a little
Brig called the Susannah: the vessel is his own and he has had no
other home for several years. English vessels he says are so much preferred
in the Mediterranean to French, that though when he came into a port,
I think it was that of Genoa, he found three French vessels waiting for a
lading, he got his own vessel full, and left them empty as he found them.
Upon asking him the reason of this difference he said it was owing to the
bad reputation of the French in point of probity: if valuable goods such
as silks were put on board them, the Masters would embezzle more or
less of the cargo, getting the crew to join in a protest importing that the
missing part was thrown over board by reason of bad weather. So unpopular

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Date_1	1785-09-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	201	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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