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To accomplish what my Son is about you will be sensible how much he stands in need of a few English Shipwrights to enable him to give that perfection to his Plan and the Improvements he proposes, and which is the object of his ambition.
Being informed there has been lately an extensive dismission of Hands from Portsmouth & other Dock yards I should hope there would be no Objection for a few of those men who are turned out of their work & thereby render'd destitute of the means of subsisteing themselves & their families here, to be permitted to go abroad for a limited time, for such a particular purpose as my Son would employ them on, more especially if it be considered, as may be concluded from his last Latter, that such a Permission from his Majesty'd Ministers will be looked upon not only as a favour done to Prince Cotemkin, but what is likely to be esteemed, a Compliment to the Empress herself, not to mention the benefit and advantage that may possibly result to the Country
Identifier: | JB/540/114/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540. |
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1784-10-26 |
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