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Tour with Prince Potemkin. The Quarel had, even then,
risen to a Challenge which had been given by the
Count to the Prince Dashcoff, and a Duel would
have taken place then and there, had it not been
for I know not what interruption occasioned
by Prince Potemkin's precipitate and unexpected
departure for Petersburgh, upon Genl Landskoy's
death,. Prince Dashcoff upon taking the Command
of Count Mellin's men, had conceived some hasty
and groundless notions to the disadvantage of
the Counts behaviour in the Command. these Notions
he had been spreading as inconsiderately as he
had taken them up. upon being questioned
concerning them by the Count, he would neither
retract his Charges nor could he make them
good. Till the Catastrophy he had all along
shewn a backwardness, not suitable to the
character of a Military Man, to give the Count
what is called a Satisfaction. my Brother
together with some other of his Friends had been
earnest with him from the first to the last, either
to fight the Count, or to beg his pardon, or
to do both, The Consequence of the Calumny
had been ruinous to the poor Count, he had
lost a good deal of his reputation, was in
danger of losing his Batallion, upon which
he had spent a considerable part of his fortune,

Identifier: | JB/540/288/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1786-07-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	288	Info in main headings field
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