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Brighthelmstone Sunday Aug. 7. 12 o'clock
1785
Hon.d Sir
Having a few minutes to spare I cannot employ
them better than by devoting them to your amusement — I am
here on the point of embarking on board the Capt.n Burton
for Dieppe - I arrived here yesterday by the Coach y at
about 6, and should have found the intermediate time hang rather
heavy on my hands, had it not been for the agreable woman who
is Sitting opposite me, a Mrs Holdham wife of Mr Holdham, whose
name was Shuttleworth, which being a younger Brother of my old friend Bob S. he changed for his mother's estate. Her
husband lives at a place called Sochez or Sauchai or some such
name 5 miles from Dieppe with a Mr Wynne brother of a Sir
.... Wynne with whom they are upon a visit till they can
suit themselves with a house. An accident which befel the lady
and myself in common at the Coach office at Charing-cross threw
us into the same vehicle the stage-coach instead of the Post-Coach
alias Machine which we had both paid for, and as she is a pleasing
well-bred woman, I at least have no reason to repent the change
Th I was denied admission into the Machine in which I had
taken a place paying the whole passage, and I was glad, at the
expence of a person who had a still worse title than myself, to
get admission into the Stage Coach in which I had not taken a
place. During the wrangle the Machine drove off, and I thought
myself fortunate in being able to lay an embargo on the Stage-
Coach, till the Usurper a dirty Barber could be turned out.
I knew I had a right to take a Post-chaise at the Coach owner's
expence, but I did not care to load myself with that charge, trusting for
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Jeremy Bentham |
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