JB/540/468/001

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Gluboka, 30 Versts below Cherson in
the Dnieper, May 22d O.S. 1788

Hond Sir

The distance is so great between us, and the News you have
from hence so very false and uncertain that I cannot but think,
it my Duty, under the present Circumstances to write you a few
Lines, every now and then, if it be only to asure you of my
existence. I have told you that my Division consists of the
Bomb and Fire Vessels. The Turkish Fleet at Ochakoff is
augmenting very day; but our Flotilla, we trust, will be
a match for them; I am afraid however it will be some
time before any thing decisive be done.

In health I am as well as you can wish me to be.
I have no news from my Brother of his arrival in England
but I hope you are together long ago.

The Circumstances I am in at present I hope will
excuse the Shortness of my Letters, the Object of which are
only to asure you, of the affection and sense of Duty
with which I remain
Yours
Saml Bentham

Jeremiah Bentham Esqr
Queens Square Place
Westmtr

Reced at Putney Heath the 22d July 1788

June 7/18 Day of the first engagement
June 15/25 Date of Potemkins despatch from the banks of the Bug with advice of it
July 1/12 Date of the insertion of the above despatch in the Petersburgh Gazette
Aug. 15 Date of the insertion of a translation of the above in the World.

Identifier: | JB/540/468/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
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