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Critchoff April 9th29. May 9th 1786

Hond Sir,

Recd at Finchley 13 June 1786

Not a day, I suppose, has passed since my arrival
but we have been imagining you here, and even hatching
random projects for realising our imaginations; but
true it is that we little dreamt of our being so near
the accomplishment of our hopes, as we find
ourselves to have been by your Letter of the 14/3.d March
received on fryday last, the second of Two which we
have received since my last. unfortunately at the
present conjuncture, Circumstances are not so
favourable to such an Expedition on this side of the
water as on your's. Barracks have been a long
time preparing, and are now compleated for Sam's
Batalion at Sevastopol the new Port in the Crimea,
L. Col. Fanshaw's Batalion is ordered thither, as
he himself told Benson; it was expected that Sam
with his Batalion would soon succeed him for a
time, in their way to their final destination. In effect,
since then orders have come from the Prince;
transmitted through General Haskin, who commands
at that Town, requiring my Brother to put himself
under the General's Command, under which Command
he accordingly is at present. We have been in hourly
expectation of the Prince in his way to his Governments
for a considerable time, but that expectation though
confirmed, is rather retarded than accelerated by a

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