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1. And. Potatoes 2. J.B. to C. 2 do. 3. Mittandu quando. 4 at
Q.S.P. 5. Nav. List. 6. Jur.y d. 7. Lo-prey.
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From Lond. Packet. Wed. May 10. 1780
... " A discovery is made by a person in Wiltshire
of a method of rendering salt or putrid water
fresh without the help of fire. This has been
communicated to Ld Sand: & the Board of Adm.y
who have appointed Sat.y fortnight for the experiment
before the Board, the person being order'd
to attend for that purpose."
2.
Anderson is upon the point going of setting up a weekly newspaper
here. If you can send over any literary
intelligence &c to feed it with, do. This <lb/. may be turned to some account: we might
make him put in paragraphs that would be
for the good of the service. Might it not
answer, if you were become a member of the
oeconomic society to make a paragraph giving
an account of the proceedings the day of
your reception and so introducing incidentally
the account of your being admitted?
3.
Wilson tells me that Q.S.P. called here today
(May 10th) to desire me to recommend it
to you to establish yourself there in preference
to the Courland Scheme: and with regard to
terms to say that you could not accept of
less than Brisch
has, who is said to have
4 or 5 ov £S a year besides a Coach kept
for him.
4. May 12. Friday 2 o'clock
I have just received your letter enclosing one about
D. I am vexed to think of your being
so sanguine about my coming, and of your disappointment
which must be the consequence
of it: a as if you had nothing to do
but to beckon to me at 3000 miles distance &
I must come of course, & to form a complicated
scheme demanding upon a thousand contingencies
& it must succeed of course. I think however
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