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this the opportunity of shewing it to General Schieffen, (the
Prussian General whose name you have seen in the papers coupled
with that of the Prince of Prussia and our Princess Royal) to
whom being an Officer of high rank in the Prussian service it
would have been a valuable communication. He is an old
army friend of Ld L.'s , they having served together under Prince
Ferdinand. I dined with him at Ld L's not a great many
days before Lady L's death. Ld L. then gave me his history:
and as the circumstance of this supposed errand have made no part of it
I suspect the story that was afterwards in the papers about it was
without foundation: though I have not yet had opportunity of enquiring
He certainly and Baron Thubeliben who was of the party gave a
more ample and different account. Thirteen of the years ago he had
been over here and spent 3 or 4 months. He is Governor of Wint,
and happening to have some business in the Hague, he thought
while he was so near he would stop over here once more for
a fortnight or three weeks to revisit his old friends —

Bowood has undergone much alteration since I was here last:
but as yet I have seen no more than through the window. All eyes
here are eagerly fixed in French politics as you may imagine: and
full of joy at the dawn of prosperity that opens to them, and of hope
for its consummation. The accounts in your paper are very tardy
imperfect and full of mis-representation, and partly from gross ignorance
partly from low malevolence, generally blackened.

Pray my dear Father let me have this paper at last, nor let
the difficulty of getting it copied prevent you from finding the original, nor
fancy that it is less safe than in your own pocket when once at Lansdowne
House. My respects attend the Ladies. Adieu I am summoned away

Identifier: | JB/541/070/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1789-08-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	070	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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