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through Lord Shelburne's repeated importunities of the conversations I
had with his Lordship relative to him, should that this I say added
to the accounts which had since reached him of the change of the
ministry should have produced the effect which it appears to have
produced upon him. At the same time you will doubtless
rejoice with me at the prospect he has of any one of three different establishments
which all of them promise to be lucrative to a very extraordinary
degree, and two of which probably, certainly one of
them, wait only for his acceptance. One is the undertaking
the management of Baron Strogonoff's salt-works: another is
the undertaking the management of works of various kinds belonging
to a person whose name he has thought it prudent not to
mention, but who I think must be Mr Demidoff . The third is
the farming an iron mine of the Crown. The second you
will find by the he is actually pressed to undertake: the first
you will see reason to think from the enclosed would be at his option:
the third he himself thinks he should obtain were he to apply for
it. As the terms Mr Demidoff has declared his willingness to accede
to are precisely the same as those that you will see were approved
of by Baron Strogonoff, you will be perfectly able to judge of the
nature of them, though in the instance of the former he has given
us

Identifier: | JB/539/301/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1782-10-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	301	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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