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J.B. To Mr Fitzherbert Petersburgh by post Crichoff Sept. 14/25 1787
enclosing 1. a letter to Q.S.P. covering one to Mrs B. + 2. another to Mr Abbot.

Sir

Though the principal part of the intelligence contained in the following extract
can be no news to you, yet as an account of those are some of the circumstances it contains
some particulars it contains which may not have come to you through other channels, but
more on account of the relation they bear to a man my Brother in whose fate you take so
kind an interest, I thought it might possibly not prove not unacceptable
to you. It was brought me on the 10/21 instant by an officer of my his Brothers
who left Chersen on the 10/15

I do not know whether I believe you staid long enough to know that an account of
the expence of the Vermicular Barge had been asked for and the money order'd.
You will not look upon it as an event incredible that that order remains still
unexecuted. The express above mentioned took a letter which my Brother says are very pressing letter one to Colonel
Popoff, from whom the money had it been obtained was to have been brought
thither thither where in truth there is no small need of it. None came: but as Popoff was pronounced known to be ill and invisible before
to every body the disappointment is not quite so discouraging as if the letter
had been received by him and either not answered or answered in the negative

The breaking up of all things here affords such an opportunity to any
body who wants a Gardener, as has never yet offer'd itself in Prussia. John Acton
whom I thought myself fortunate to get for my Brother from Scotland at so
low a salary as £80 a year, is nephew and was some years foreman to
Acton the King's Gardener at Kew. I question whether ever Gardener man er ever
had such an so complete a gardener's education: for besides serving breeding him up at Kew which may be reckoned the
first school in the kingdom, his Uncle sent him to serve successively at
Lee's the Nursery-mans a man of particular eminence in his li line.

Mrs Southech's, the Duke of Northumberlands, and the Princess Amelias, &
I dont know what other places these opportunities have not been thrown away upon him, I look upon him
I have just As far as I can judge he is a compleat master of his business:
I have just that part of
little superficial knowledge I have of the great fondness I have for bot gardening and botany has given me that superficial
knowledge which may enable perhaps a man to form some judgment of the abilities
of a man one who knows more. He has likewise both here as well as and in England
had some experience in the farming line. To say he is sober, is only
saying he is a Scotchman; and with regard to his honesty my Brothers long
absence has afforded me such occasion to observe it as does not he within
the compass of ordinary experience. He has a wife who being bred in a farmers
family, understands I believe pretty compleatly the dairy business, and might
on that account prove a valuable accession to the family of any one who
were disposed to engage her husband. He leaves my Brother with regret, and it

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