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in return for unabated kindness, without so much as a previous complaint: but by this
no pecuniary loss has been sustained. B. denies that D. had any share in influencing
him: Whether truly or no is neither easy to be known nor worth knowing. B we
hear has been well received by the Gov.r at Riga on the score of Forestrymanship
and a plausible appearance and address. All these Circumstances together cut off in
a manner our Communication with Riga, I could not take shipping there without
having my intention (according to the general Law of the country made public there
3 or 4 weeks before my departure: and all that time I should be kicking my
heels at an Inn there at least as dear twice as dear again as the Dearest D is
gone off to Kieff and that way in pursuance of an invitation given him upon the
strength of his reputation for insanity which seems to have originated in th the behaviour
produced by the notice taken of him on account of his professional merit
at Riga. The diverting themselves with characters of that sort forms a favourite
amusement with some people. If you have a mind to be a defendant in
an action for words you have nothing to do but to let the contents of this
get to the knowledge of your Russian merchants. With about two months
employment, neglecting every thing else, I could give you an history
of these pretty incidents and some other similar ones, full enough to afford
a tolerable satisfaction to your appetite for ill news.
Crichoff is just sold. what change, if any, this event may make in
S.'s situation it would be purpose for me to pretend it would be of no purpose to guess at this
distance from all sources of intelligence. The Jews, not liking the their purchases,
have been talking about making up a purse to enable S. to buy up buy up the Town
itself with a small district round it, the purchasers it seems not liking this
part of their bargain: but all that remains in darkness.
I could have wished to have known about the House of Correction for
Middlesex, whether the pla Inspection plan, to which in itself I suppose you
have no objection, came live enough to be proposed for that purpose which
was the original & at first the only occasion of my letters.
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