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Ladobras near Crichoff May 25th/June 5th 1787.
Hon:d Sir
On Friday last I received a letter from Mr Wilson, inclosing one from
you to him of the 15th of April. The pleasure which the sight of a line under your
hand would have afforded under other circumstances could not but be much alloy'd
by the proof it afforded me that the silence, under which your sons have
so long been suffering, is not owing to any disinclination to writing in general, but
to some other cause which it would be of no use for me to attempt to guess at.
I derive from it however this intelligence, which to me is very material and
decisive, viz: that what inclination you appear to have to publish my letters on
the Inspection-house is grounded not on any personal satisfaction such a publication
would afford you on your own account, but on the anxiety you conceive
to subsist on my part to see it take place for some purpose or other respecting
us or one of us. In my last, which went from hence this day fortnight,
by way of Petersburgh under cover to Mr Pleschijeff, I told you
that the hopes of their giving you pleasure was one of the main objects I had
in view in writing those letters. Whether those hopes have been fulfilled in any
respect is more than I have any means of knowing. I have however
learnt enough to extinguish most perfectly whatever desire I had originally, and
do accordingly write this for the express purpose of begging and intreating that
they may on no account go to the press till we meet an event which as
far as depends upon my wishes and intentions can not be many months
distant: I know not how soon I may set out on my way home: if it is
not within these two or three months, at any rate it will not be later than
till the winter roads are formed.
In my last, as abovementioned, I gave you a pretty full account of
my Brothers Vermicular-Barge or rather Vermicular-Squadron, with which
he set off about a month ago to overtake the Empress. I have no tidings of
him since.
Mr Wilson tells me that you are anxious to know if B. who you have
heard has behaved ill, seduced by D has affected S's connection with a house
you
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