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'' | <p>as no <hi rend="underline">data</hi> from which we can judge of the precise nature of the<lb/>undertaking, or of the profits to be reaped from it. The sheets I now<lb/> send you, to confess the truth came with his last letter. I <add><gap/></add> forbear<lb/><sic>shewing</sic> these to you, first, because as you will see he desired it,<lb/> & secondly because I did not like you should be harassed with projects<lb/>which might prove abortive. As he has it now absolutely<lb/> in his power to engage in a plan which he seems to propose even<lb/> to that very advantageous one, this latter objection as well as the<lb/> former is now at an end. Till I knew this of Dimidoff's, I<lb/> was a little vexed at his not observing immediately with the others;<lb/> though at the same time I imagined several other good reasons<lb/> as possible at least which to you I feared <add>might</add> <del><gap/></del> not prove<lb/> so satisfactory as to me. Within a day or two after I received<lb/>the sheets herewith <sic>inclosed</sic>, I wrote to him a long letter, <add><gap/></add> <gap/><lb/>upon the philosophy of the salt-works, & the manner of negotiating<lb/>with the Baron: their latter part in French, that being the<lb/> language in which the treaty would be carried on. The warmth<lb/> with which I enter'd into that project, with <add>some</add> other circumstances<lb/> which I cannot particularly recollect will I am sure be sufficient<lb/>to stop the alteration which you will see he had thoughts<lb/> of making in his plans in consequence of what I had written<lb/> to him by the direction of Lord Shelburne. That letter he <add>must</add> <del><gap/></del><lb/>have had a chance of receiving very soon, after the time of his<lb/><add>writing</add></p> | ||
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as no data from which we can judge of the precise nature of the
undertaking, or of the profits to be reaped from it. The sheets I now
send you, to confess the truth came with his last letter. I forbear
shewing these to you, first, because as you will see he desired it,
& secondly because I did not like you should be harassed with projects
which might prove abortive. As he has it now absolutely
in his power to engage in a plan which he seems to propose even
to that very advantageous one, this latter objection as well as the
former is now at an end. Till I knew this of Dimidoff's, I
was a little vexed at his not observing immediately with the others;
though at the same time I imagined several other good reasons
as possible at least which to you I feared might not prove
so satisfactory as to me. Within a day or two after I received
the sheets herewith inclosed, I wrote to him a long letter,
upon the philosophy of the salt-works, & the manner of negotiating
with the Baron: their latter part in French, that being the
language in which the treaty would be carried on. The warmth
with which I enter'd into that project, with some other circumstances
which I cannot particularly recollect will I am sure be sufficient
to stop the alteration which you will see he had thoughts
of making in his plans in consequence of what I had written
to him by the direction of Lord Shelburne. That letter he must
have had a chance of receiving very soon, after the time of his
writing
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1782-10-03 |
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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