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Dec 1. 1794
J.B. to R.t Hon: H. Dundas
Of
a sum that part of the loss which respects the moral fruits
that might have been hoped for
of this loss though in my own estimate so much greater I take no account, these
being open to dispute because not capable of being
exhibited in pounds shillings and pence.
As to the individual whose fate is involved in the depends upon the decision
business to the past and continuing distresses of which
you are already apprized will be added by the 10th of
this month a much still more serious one.
The building was, and (if it ever comes into existence)
is to be the
greatest principal of it of
cast iron. One person
was willing to undertake it
and has undertaken the work at £ 12: elsewhere I either
could not
get it done have got it undertaken for at all, or not for less than £ 18
a ton: after putting off the man at £ 12 till he
would be put off no longer, I
accordingly found myself obliged
either to close with him, or to pay half as much again
to somebody else without an equal chance of having such ever <add>nice nice and and perhaps not have it done fit for service after all.difficult work executed in a condition fit for service.I chose the former course: several hundred pounds
worth have already been
cast executed cast and received
by for me at
London and may be seen lying at Campbel and Whites
Wharf . . . . . . . . executed
to my Brothers perfect satisfaction, & to the admiration of the best
judges. A Bill has accordingly been drawn upon me
payable the 10
th of this month: and others are on
the point of following it.
I have not the money: even
for the first: and if
under these circumstancesintimation of which
was given in general
terms months ago in my letter of ..
..... todisgrace should fall on me,
you
will judge you will judge, Sir I may venture to leave it to you, Sir, whether
I shall <add>may not have maythere will not be some very illustrious sharers partners in it.it will fall on me alone.You may also judge, Sir,
whether even if I had not already
declared myself in such explicit terms, whether,
if in such circumstances and at the end of such a period
and after such
an event or under the
existing impending danger of it it
would be a time for a man it would be a time for men to be called uponto propose to me call upon to
go in begin the pursuit of a possible fresh spot, prescribed
to me by somebody who has
had the courage to
look upon hold up his own device
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