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Constantinople Dec:r 4. 1785

Sir

I write this to beg the favour of you to send me a
copy of the translation of the Abbé Spalanzani's works, lately pub
lished — you may get it on my account of Mr Wheeldon Bookseller
in Fleet Street — Let it be sent to Mess:rs Cazalet Merchants in London whose
address I cannot give you, but as they are people of great eminence
you will easily find them by a Directory. Let it be put up in
two covers: the innermost directed "To his Excellency Sir Rob.
"Ainslie Ambassador for his Britannic Majesty to the Ottoman
"Port Constantinople" — The outermost "To Anthony Hayes Esq.r
"his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Smyrna" - and on one side
"To the care of Mess:rs Cazalet by the earliest conveyance". Let it
be bound and letter'd if there are any copies to be had in that condition
time enough: if not, in boards.

I expect to set off from hence for Russia by land on Wednesday
next Dec:r 7. We take advantage of the departure of a Moldavian
Princess, sister to the reigning Prince for Jassi his capital. The Am-
bassador has had the goodness to introduce us to her Highness for that pur-
pose. She has an escort of twenty of her Brother's horse who came
here to convoy his tribute to the Porte: a protection without which it
would be altogether unsafe to travel that route unless it were with a
Courier whose pace would be too quick to be supportable to any body not

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Identifier: | JB/540/221/001
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1785-12-07

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Jeremy Bentham

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