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Departure for Petersburgh upon General Landskoy's
Death. Prince Dashkoff, upon taking the Command
of Count Mellin's men, had conceived some hasty
and groundless notions to the disadvantage of the
Count's 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 wcould 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 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,
and had actually lost his Mistress, a Lady of
large fortune to whom he had been in a manner
engaged. A remarkable Circumstance is that
the Count, after his disappointment at Krementchuck
knowing my Brother's Intimacy with the Prince
Dashkoff, wrote, notwithstanding, to my Brother,
to beg of him to be his the Count's Second in this Duel, upon

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Date_1	1786-07-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	290	Info in main headings field
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