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Linc. Inn. July 6. 1778.
Your letter, my dear Sam, which I
receiv'd this afternoon. Delivered
me as your may imagine from a good deal of anxiety.
It is to no purpose to tell you all the theories and conjectures I had
formed to account for your silence. You have seen I suppose before
now a letter I wrote about you to Mr Witchell. As the Devil
would have it he was in town at the time (so I learnt to be from
Nairne through
Mrs D.) by which means Idoubly distressed
and disappointed. The part that I heard ofyou was from Q.S.
P. with whom I dined on Thursday andFriday.
Friday's post brought me a letter form D'Alembert,
which put me in bad
spirits. I have transcribed it for your edification
on the otherleaf. I wasis civil indeed, butrather cold and
dry, and very short. N'importe— I am by this time very
well reconciled to it. We shallsoon see, Ihope what the other men have
to say to us.
After I had read your letter to me I posted to Lind
to see this which you had written to him — Why could not you
as well have sent
it under my cover? You were afraid I
suppose of my being out of the way. He seemed mightily
pleased with it I can assure youand told me he intended
to answer it — I told that astime was precious to him,
I would save him that trouble. All he had to say as to thank
you for what you have done, and to exhort you totake no opportunity
of doing the like in future. I do exhort you inhis
name and my own. I can assure you it has answer'd very
well; therefore grudge neither time nor trouble in scraping up
whatever intelligence you can. He says it is inconceivable the
anxiety they are in in Poland to know how every thingthat happens
between us and France, thinking that if wewere disregarded
we might take some part or other in the disputes in
Germany. The last days for your letters of news to Lind to arrive
are
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Jeremy Bentham |
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