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Thursday Sept.. 10. 1778. L.I.

Yesterday I received a letter from Wilson (the second he
has written me since he has been gone and the first since he
has reached Aberdeen. What follows relates to you is verbatim thus.
You are to understand He had received a copiesy I sent him of your two letters that came together letter from on board
the Bienfaisant, but not of that you wrote me from the
Victory.

"I am mightily pleased with Sams going to sea, because
"I am persuaded that it will gain him the friendship of these Navy
"people and that the risque is not great. I hope he will not
"think of quitting the Deck on the eve of an action - It is a
"mighty absurd thing undoubtedly to risque ones life, and a life of
"some value without doing any service by it to the cause: but if
"the people one has to do with are absurd enough to think that
"running such unnecessary hazards is the greatest possible merit
"and avoiding them the greatest demerit I see nothing for it but
"to humour them." I hope therefore that you will advise him or
"will have advised him to take his chance on the quarter deck,
"as the course which is likely upon the whole to produce the
"least inconvenience".

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Date_1	1778-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	234	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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