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is particularly pleased it seems with the 24-oared boat which I described to you in
my letter of April/May, and never goes on the river in any other vessel. What is
surprising, and a little alarming is, that in all this time neither we here, nor so
late as May 23/June 3 had they at Kremenchook any tidings of the Great Serpentine
vessel which set off from hence as I informed you about ten days
after my Brother. I suppose it may have got aground or some or otherwise
met with some stoppage at some place considerably distant from any port-town.
I am not at all surprised at my Brother's not writing: circumstanced as he is, he would
hardly have found time to write had he been well, but as there were several Englishmen
with him on board I rather wonder that none of them have scrawled a line to their friends here.
My great dependence was on Beatty who went is on board the last mentioned Serpentine.
The name of the new estate the Prince has bought near Kremenchook is Smolianchina:
the town included in is Simolian: it is on the
: about 60 versts if I understand right lower down than
The news is that the Tannery is to be removed from this place
in plain English, a great building which is but just completed.
new Polish Landlords, who can make a use of it and another built in its place. The same tra
news is to be performed upon the Glass house: an operation the one ha
performed by a fire that burnt it to the ground 5 or 6 months ago
much pleased with some Potatoes of English race that my Brother
from this place: and talks of having the whole Potatoe produce
may const amount perhaps of to about a dozen aires) sent from home,
can be taken up, to plant Kremenchook with, upon a large
it is understood, is to move that way ward, but whether
not till the ensuing spring is not known. All this indicates a
Crichoff and Ladobras. — Prince Dashcoff, I hear, is removed
in this neighbourhood, and instead of his regiment of two
a Grenadier Regiment which consists of four.
I have scarce left myself room to thank you for your letter which arrived here on
Friday sennight. Since then there has been one post gone out from here by which I could
have written to acknowledge the receipt of it; but I had but little stomach to write then at
a time when the very little intelligence I could give you of my brother was worse than none.
An Officer had passed through this place a few days before who not been had seen him on board
the barge, I don't know where, but brought no other news than that of his health, of which he gave
a very unfavourable account. After congratulating you on the being able to speak of your indisposition
in the perfect tense gives me leave, for fear of the future, and in return for
the good advice you have been giving me, to remind you of the law Cui-libel insea
arte credendum cit: in plain English, I am sorry to hear you are not so obsequious
to Mr. Welch's advice as you ought to be consistently with your opinion of him, and as your
friends would wish. Many thanks for your news: it went onwards by means of an accidental
opportunity forthwith towards Kiev & Kremenchook &c and perhaps on account of its freshness may
have proved news to Mr F. The Inspection house was not begun here; nor as you see, is it like to be. I have no
later news from England.
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