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it is with regret I part with him: indeed I would not have parted with him so
soon had I staid some time longer as I thought to have done before till I heard
of my Brothers being thus impounded. He refused some time ago £100 a
year which was offerd him by my Brother on the part of the Prince to go
to the Crimea.
Before I close this packet letter I don't know whether I may not take the
liberty of troubling you with one for England. The contents being of some consequence
to my Brother and me I send a duplicate by way of Riga. but can
not trust to that channel having lost by means of it I believe more
than half a dozen letters since I have been here. I shall not have no need to trespass
so much farther upon your politeness as to beg an answer: hoping to shape
my course homewards through Poland and Germany before any could arrive in about a fortnight's time
I write You will excuse I hope my having written to Mr Plischjeff likewise about the
Gardener to the same effect, I thought as a means of doubling the man's
chance. He I send him off when I go myself. Going with horses of
my brother's it may be take him a month perhaps before he arrives at from thence to get to Petersburgh.
Of the Vermicular-barge money a part was wanted to help discharge the arrears
due to this man and the other English. They bear their disappointment with
a patience and good humour which touches me very sensibly.
Crichoff in White Russia Sept. 18/29 1787
My Lord
The commencements of war, how trifling soever in themselves, derive an importance from
the events to which they lead. It is partly this consideration, partly that of the kind interest your Lordship takes
in what concerns the writer of a letter I have just received, that I take the liberty of troubling you with
an extract.
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