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been <sic>compleat</sic> master of his time and on more<lb/> | been <sic>compleat</sic> master of his time and on more<lb/> | ||
than one occasion of his purse, without any thing<lb/> | than one occasion of his purse, without any thing<lb/> | ||
to distinguish his condition from that | to distinguish his condition from that as a regular<lb/> | ||
agent of | agent of yours, <del>except</del><add>excepting only</add> the emolument and the title.</p> | ||
<lb/> | <p>And now, Sir, at the close of this correspondence<lb/> | ||
what recompense do you propose to<lb/> | |||
make to <del>them</del><add>him?</add> <!-- pencil insert --><gap/>?<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">You</hi>, a man of immense wealth, sole proprietor<lb/> | |||
of a silver mine worth 256,000, or of<lb/> | |||
the money <add>that has been</add>realised by <add>what has been sold from it:</add> <del>the sale of it</del>: <hi rend="underline">he</hi>, a<lb/> | |||
man whose <add>sole</add> patrimony consists in those <add>rare & useful</add> talents<lb/> | |||
by some of which he has been so serviceable to<lb/> | |||
you: involved all the while in <del>the</del> difficulties <add>which</add></p><pb/> | |||
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J.B. for Henderson to Gullet
This, however, imortant as it has has been to you,
and burthensome to him, has been but one out
a variety of businesses which have been theafforded
matter for subjects of a correspondence which has been
kept up I find with great regularity from the
beginning of last March was twelvemonth to
the present day: a correspondence of which the
advantage has been uniformly and exclusively
your own: the burthen and even the expence
as uniformly his. I have your letters before me in
files: the very posting of them is become an object.
In short during all this while you seem to have
been compleat master of his time and on more
than one occasion of his purse, without any thing
to distinguish his condition from that as a regular
agent of yours, exceptexcepting only the emolument and the title.
And now, Sir, at the close of this correspondence
what recompense do you propose to
make to themhim? ?
You, a man of immense wealth, sole proprietor
of a silver mine worth 256,000, or of
the money that has beenrealised by what has been sold from it: the sale of it: he, a
man whose sole patrimony consists in those rare & useful talents
by some of which he has been so serviceable to
you: involved all the while in the difficulties which
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