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J.B. to S.B.

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Tho J.B. yt indites, it is Q. S. P. yt writes, ever since my
last you recd at Hamburgh, my Eyes have been bad, but
by force of Leeches, blisters, & Purges, they are nearly set to right
again. So yt I wd have written myself but won't let me.
You have by this really/malady ye Satisfaction of hearing from my
father & me at ye same time & trouble.

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This setled, ye all, ye Correspondences shall pass between you
& me, Therefore don't expect ye my father to write to you
nor need you write to him, nor take up Paper in making
more speeches upon this Subject

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I think it was a day after my last yt I went to
abt yt so Mr was and a way to
Portsmouth on accnt of Deputy's being laid by ye
for Smugling, wch made it necessary for him , to go down
Post haste in order Letter him from
go to sea himself, since then, I have had one Lr from him
but your offer was then soon after that
Hardy Jail'd, & yr St Alban's with him, so yt I think it's
probable is gone himself probably before I close
this, Post haste in order Letter him from
go to sea himself, since then, I have had one Lr from him
but your offer was then soon after that
Hardy Jail'd, & yr St Alban's with him, so yt I think it's
probable is gone himself probably before I close
this, I may be able to let you know. Mrs. , we had heard
from her last, wch was abt a week ago, was together
at Brompton.

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Since you have been gone I have recd her Lrs from
one datd Sepr 29. th other Oct. 23d in ye
he gives me an account of the Unicorn Sheathing,
she was just then come in from America after havg
been 4 year's out, he accompanys this with a
Box of Skelle taken from her Bottom, they are of the
Barnacle kind rising above half an from the
Surface to wch they were attach'd, I have wish'd
he had ye as they were with yr metal, they
were adhering to they are off, but ye Verdigrence
is plainly visible upon a , wch appears
to have been ye place of Contact, he says, "The Shelly
"Stuck so fast to the bottom yt I was not able to force
"you off without the help of a hammer the copper by itself
was entirely clean & without the least of sign of
"having had ye of that substance upon it but ye
"with wch ye copper was joyn'd together had such a hard
"Shell upon them. The Nails are at the distance of 2 or 3
Inches from Each other" To the Shells adhered a quantity
of sea weed, It seems therefore, yt it is a very precise
to ye of of the as Layman the
than to ye poison and quality of it; yt it is in general
so exempt from Incrustrations. Lohman says yt the
Nails are of a Composition, Q. what can that be?
it must, I think have copper in it, but if not as
they are contiiguous to y Copper, or ting'd by it, it
comes to y Same thing.

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you, the of a brigate just there
taken brought in, by the Pearl, The Prize is a new
ship and this her first Cruise The 26. 12 ,
& 2 She is to have the Draft from
She at Portsmouth yard
what he means by the Draft & I don't
very well know, but you, I suppose, do.

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He promises me 2 Servants were taken on board of
Hardy's to y last , ye other, on board
. They appear to be his own. But I am not
certain, if one . I find likely to
be of use to you, & he can part with you shall
have them.

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Identifier: | JB/538/408/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-11-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	408	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham; Charles Abbot	Watermarks
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