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'' | <p>Thursday 18 June. 1778</p> | ||
<p><sic>T'</sic> shall have a letter from <sic>it's</sic> <sic>nown</sic> brother - that | |||
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it shall.</p> | |||
<p>You <add>have</add> received a letter written yesterday from Wilson, | |||
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<hi rend="underline"><foreign>cum notis Benthami</foreign></hi>.</p> | |||
<p>The Russians (their names are Basilewsky) who | |||
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I told you had <sic>offer'd</sic> to take charge of my packet, called | |||
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on Tuesday or Wednesday <sic>sennight</sic> to tell me of their | |||
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being to quit England the latter end of this month: I was | |||
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just going out: so I asked them to come and drink Tea with | |||
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me as last Saturday which they did. I collected several particulars | |||
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from them; which take higgledy-piggledy.</p> | |||
<p>Orloff besides the £100,000's <del><gap/></del> worth of gold plate, <add><del><gap/></del></add> got | |||
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inter alia, a set of diamond<del>s</del> buttons for a suit of <sic>cloaths</sic> | |||
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They say besides his landed estate which <gap/> may very well | |||
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amount to the 50000 £ a year I mentioned, he is thought | |||
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to be worth some millions in ready money. The woman he | |||
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is married to is his own niece. He got a dispensation for it | |||
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some how or other: a Prince Gallitzin was not so fortunate; | |||
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after having married his niece though <del>she</del> <add>there</add> was a bastardy in | |||
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one of the degrees <add>between him & her</add>, he was <del>not</del> obliged to put her away.</p> | |||
<p>The revenues are about 30,000,000 of Roubles - a | |||
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Rouble is 5 French livres - The Abb<sic>è</sic> Chappe taking his | |||
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notion from an old calculation of the time of Peter the Great | |||
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made them but 13,000,000. Of this the duty <del>of</del> upon Brandy | |||
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produces 7,000,000: that on Salt, 3,000,000: the little province | |||
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of Livonia of which Riga is the capital, 3,000,000: there are | |||
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the <sic>Abbés</sic> 13,000,000.</p> | |||
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Thursday 18 June. 1778
T' shall have a letter from it's nown brother - that
it shall.
You have received a letter written yesterday from Wilson,
cum notis Benthami.
The Russians (their names are Basilewsky) who
I told you had offer'd to take charge of my packet, called
on Tuesday or Wednesday sennight to tell me of their
being to quit England the latter end of this month: I was
just going out: so I asked them to come and drink Tea with
me as last Saturday which they did. I collected several particulars
from them; which take higgledy-piggledy.
Orloff besides the £100,000's worth of gold plate, got
inter alia, a set of diamonds buttons for a suit of cloaths
They say besides his landed estate which may very well
amount to the 50000 £ a year I mentioned, he is thought
to be worth some millions in ready money. The woman he
is married to is his own niece. He got a dispensation for it
some how or other: a Prince Gallitzin was not so fortunate;
after having married his niece though she there was a bastardy in
one of the degrees between him & her, he was not obliged to put her away.
The revenues are about 30,000,000 of Roubles - a
Rouble is 5 French livres - The Abbè Chappe taking his
notion from an old calculation of the time of Peter the Great
made them but 13,000,000. Of this the duty of upon Brandy
produces 7,000,000: that on Salt, 3,000,000: the little province
of Livonia of which Riga is the capital, 3,000,000: there are
the Abbés 13,000,000.
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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