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you answers. Possibly for want of leisure he
may scarcely have looked at them, and possibly
he may have been displeased from an idea of
my having referred you to him for his decisions.
As I have heard nothing from himI fear the
worst, but I will write as soon as I can to
a friend by whom I hope at least to hear how
the matter stands and to lay the blame on your
over-zeal. At any rate I must endeavour
to meet you in the Crimea and to make
provision for the Salaries as well as to get <lb?. all assistance for the establishments.
The commercial scheme for the Vessel to be loaded with tallow & wax
to be t with the view of defraying the expences
of the exportation of the Colony unless I should
rather have shared the profits of with some Merchant
than have proposed to the prince; and that chiefly
for the sake of proposing as little as possible. It is
being troublesome to make him think.
I must endeavour to make myself quiet till
I hear of how your letters acted: but in the
meantime I am meditating a Contract Scheme
Critchoff
Dr Debraw
I think I may
shall have the malt spirit Contract
terms of receiving half the profit arising.
his improvements. On the same terms
I am in hopes of getting leave to propose to
Dinwiddie for undertaking the management
of a part of the estate where any new Manufacturer
as well as agriculture may be carried
on. Dr Browne from Carmarthen
whom I mentioned to you in a letter from
Moscow returned here with me and not being
pleased with the circumstances attending the
practice of his profession at Moscow although
he had determined on returning to England is
well disposed to take a part of this estate
on the terms I am about to propose to the
Prince. His idea of the terms are that
the Prince is to have half the increased profit
as of the other half he as well as other of our
countrymen who would take each them a part of
the estate to have 2/3 and I the remaining<lb?> 1/3 of the other half. In that manner by
engaging a number of Termiers
for different
parts of the estate, a nd for different fabricks, although
I should have less 1/3 only of what each would receive
from his business yet my profits from the whole
would be greater than any except the Prince's.
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Samuel Bentham |
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