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1787} J.B. Crichoff
Sept} to
14/25} A. Fitzherbert Petersburgh
Also
J.B. Crichoff
to
Ld Lansdown London

it is with regret I part with him: indeed I would not have parted with him so
soon had I staid some time longer as I thought to have done before till I heard
of my Brothers being thus impounded. He refused some time ago £100 a
year which was offerd him by my Brother on the part of the Prince to go
to the Crimea.

Before I close this packet letter I don't know whether I may not take the
liberty of troubling you with one for England. The contents being of some consequence
to my Brother and me I send a duplicate by way of Riga. but can
not trust to that channel having lost by means of it I believe more
than half a dozen letters since I have been here. I shall not have no need to trespass
so much farther upon your politeness as to beg an answer: hoping to shape
my course homewards through Poland and Germany before any could arrive in about a fortnight's time

I write You will excuse I hope my having written to Mr Plischjeff likewise about the
Gardener to the same effect, I thought as a means of doubling the man's
chance. He I send him off when I go myself. Going with horses of
my brother's it may be take him a month perhaps before he arrives at from thence to get to Petersburgh.

Of the Vermicular-barge money a part was wanted to help discharge the arrears
due to this man and the other English. They bear their disappointment with
a patience and good humour which touches me very sensibly.

Crichoff in White Russia Sept. 18/29 1787

My Lord

The commencements of war, how trifling soever in themselves, derive an importance from
the events to which they lead. It is partly this consideration, partly that of the kind interest your Lordship takes
in what concerns the writer of a letter I have just received, that I take the liberty of troubling you with
an extract.

r the extracts follows the list of the fleet - H

We have it here, that not only the Emperor joins the Russians, but likewise the Kg of Prussia
who it is said has a body of troops already in Courland in their march t to co operate somehow
or other with the Russian armies. The Poles it is said have assembled or are assembling an
army of observation of 30,000 men. B The Venetians we likewise understand, accede to this wonderful alliance. But of all this you have certainly much prompter and more
authentic intelligence. Our notion is that the Porte has been forced into the war by the populace, who
had seized or attempted to seize the heir-apparent. But of all this you have certainly much
prompter and more authentic intellgence. What a fertil field for speculation!

Last winter I attempted to trouble your Lordship with one of my never-ending letters;
ying circumstances together I am relieved to think the attempt did not succeed

After a struggle between the opposite attractions of Cherson and London, I think, before many
are at an end, to set my face homewards steering my course most probably through Warsaw
& Berlin: and I hope it will not be very long before I have the honour of in person the sincere
and respectful attachment with which I am

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