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<head>Linc. Inn. Wednesday night. Sept: 2. 1779</head> | |||
<p>Hon<hi rend="superscript">d</hi>. Sir,<lb/><lb/> This is a letter I had much rather have delay'd<lb/> and would have delay'd still longer, if I had not thought<lb/> that the hearing from us at all would be productive<lb/> of more anxiety to you than the hearing what I have to<lb/> tell you. The truth of the matter is that yesterday sennight<lb/> at 1/4 after one I left Sam under sail on board a Dutch<lb/> Rel-boat bound for Hellevoetsluis: and so heavy is the ship <lb/> and so <unclear>adverse</unclear> have been the winds, that I much question<lb/> whether he is got there yet. <gap/> with whom I have been<lb/> talking just now says that a person whom he knows, embarked<lb/> on board of such a vessel upwards of a fortnight ago,<lb/> which has been so dilatory that the persons friends have had<lb/> time to write over here to enquire what is become of him.<lb/> However within this day or two we have had a <gap/> share <lb/> of south & south-west winds; so that I should hope that<lb/> by this time we may have been landed. I have heard from<lb/> him twice already, the first time on Friday by a letter<lb/> dated Wednesday morning. He was then got no farther than <add>Gravesend</add></p> | |||
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Linc. Inn. Wednesday night. Sept: 2. 1779
Hond. Sir,
This is a letter I had much rather have delay'd
and would have delay'd still longer, if I had not thought
that the hearing from us at all would be productive
of more anxiety to you than the hearing what I have to
tell you. The truth of the matter is that yesterday sennight
at 1/4 after one I left Sam under sail on board a Dutch
Rel-boat bound for Hellevoetsluis: and so heavy is the ship
and so adverse have been the winds, that I much question
whether he is got there yet. with whom I have been
talking just now says that a person whom he knows, embarked
on board of such a vessel upwards of a fortnight ago,
which has been so dilatory that the persons friends have had
time to write over here to enquire what is become of him.
However within this day or two we have had a share
of south & south-west winds; so that I should hope that
by this time we may have been landed. I have heard from
him twice already, the first time on Friday by a letter
dated Wednesday morning. He was then got no farther than Gravesend
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Jeremy Bentham |
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