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quit)"ting one scheme for another— I don't say that he has such a fault,
"but only that I have once or twice suspected it, and there can be no
"harm in our keeping it in mind and guarding against if necessary."
So for G.W.— I myself J.B. have at least as often entertained
the same suspicion— what says S.B. to it.

Let me tell you while I think of it (for I declare I had actually
forgot it) I wrote you an entire letter also from Brompton. Did not
I tell you in that letter of my having made a considerable progress in
my Code (for the Bern premium) and of Voltaire's having written a
book (which I have) to encourage people to become candidates.

I understand from Wilson that the packet is got to Petersburgh
These are his words— "The parcel which you sent by Jeu is arrived."
He wrote in this mysterious manner. I suppose to prevent
her his letter from being inostensible to La Croffiare.

1 I have got some pomatum for you— hard and soft: the hard
in a convenient tin case— I shall send with half a pound of powder
2. Cloaths— I shall send you your black velvet breeches, Casmere
& green velvet waistcoats— the latter be felt was is new lined.
pair or two of laced or edges ruffles thou shall have. My salten wastecoat I
spare 3. foil I have not yet had time to see about— I will have
tomorrow

I cannot say I have any very sanguine expectations from this Larfort
scheme. It seems to me that the waves would wash it off in a
week or two, and that a very slight brush from a boat or a
cable for instance would peel it off at once. As to the prepare however of
the water that I should think should tend rather to keep the air in
than force it out: the escape of the air trough or tendency to escape I should
rather impute to some other cause. All this however I offer with
great diffidence. As to the sharing the project with the Surgeon I see
no manner of reason for it in point of right or of honor: would
there be at in point of prudence? interest?

Yes— I should like to take a peep at thee and have a little confabulation
with thee, that I should— but I can not now go to you— nor can
you come to me till the fleet is come in and you have seen what is
to be seen of it. If the fleet does not come in soon, and Berkeley's fireship
goes out to it, could not you go with him?

Coat— let it be half lined with silk of the same color (buttons of the color (then it will wear with any waistcoat — somewhat of — the French grey like your French Coat— inclining rather to the green than to the
red and rather to the blue than to the green. The collar pretty broad— Pocket flaps
not indented but plain terminating on the of a very large circle

Identifier: | JB/538/244/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1778-10-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	244	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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