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London Nov.r 15, 1794 Sat:y afternoon
For greater privacy, and that I might abscond with less danger
of interruption or observance instead of setting out the Park way,
I went Dartmouth Street way — Every body knows what nuts
it is to the Lord to disappoint the designs, great and small, of
any body that has the misfortune to bear any relation to such a
reprobate as thee. As I was brushing by the casa del illustrissimo
Signore Borghese, out brushes the illustrissimo himself - I looked as
hard as I could down the opposite way - that would not serve me
he happened to be in a condescending mood, and would run after me
and catch hold of me by the elbow. When he had me fast, nothing
would serve him but he would take me to the his new Office, to
shew me the lions thereof - We had not been in his rooms two
minutes when up came a Messenger saying that Colonel Lenox was
below, desiring to speak to him - "Tell him I can't see him" -
What hindered the great man's seeing him ? - He was too busily engaged with
me, explaining to me what I never asked him to explain the
difference between a Lettre de Chancellerie and a Lettre de
Cachet such as our own most gracious King, as he assured me (God
bless

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Identifier: | JB/541/621/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1794-11-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	621	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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