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least trouble to himself, but how long his residence there
is to be I can't pretend to say, nor do I believe he yet knows
himself. For my own part I make myself happy with
the thought that he is so; he now & then comes upon us
without our ever knowing when & catches us at Breakfast
or Dinner, where he is always welcome — when he has any
thing to communicate to me that he thinks will give me
pleasure I believe he never fails to do it.
Since the Account I was happy to receive of the active
part you took in the two Engagements with the Turks, upon
the , & of your promotion in consequence of it
I have been led to consider you more in the Character —
not only of a Soldier, but of a Commander too, & finding
that there have lately been published two Military Treatises
Each in two Vols very large octavo with a number
of Plates & drawings to them for the Information of Field
Officers, which have the names of all the Principal Officers
of our Army prefixed to them as Subscribers for the
purpose of enabling the Editors to bear the Expence
of their Publication, I have purchased them, in hope
they may be of some use to you, as a Field Officer
and intend taking the first opportunity I can meet
with of sending them to some Friend of yours at Petersburgh
in hopes that from thence they may find their way to
you at Cherson. The one cost me two guineas,
and the other nearly as much & shall be greatly
concerned & disappointed to have them miscarry
& not come to your hand, therefore desire you
will not fail to give me the Satisfaction of knowing by
Letter from you as soon as you shall have received them.
But I hope, this long Letter, independent of the Books
will be a means of convincing you of what pleasure I take in thinking
of my dear Son at what ever distance he is from me, & how much
greater pleasure it will be to his Father to hear from him, & to
have some account of him, &, as far as is may be consistent
with prudence, of his concerns where he is.
I thank God I have rubbed thro' this last winter, severe as it
has been, tolerably well & have no particular complaint, in
respect to health, altho' I am now got into the 77th year of my Age
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Jeremiah Bentham |
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