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Brompton near Chatham
Wedny 26th July 1783.
Hond. Sir
Yesterday came a letter from Sam, shorter indeed
but sweeter than that to you which my Mother was so good
as to copy for me. You have it on the other leaf. His offers to the
Empress you will find are new actually accepted: and he has nothing
left now to choose the scene of action and negotiate about the terms.
This is better than presenting a begging petition and getting kicked
out of Court with a few hundred roubles in his pocket. It is better
also in his judgment even than engaging with the Stroganoffs, which
he has along considered only as a and which Sir James
mentioned to you only as being then the only thing actually in
his power. [With regard to the Debt it is certainly no pleasing
news: but let us give the Devil his Due and not condemn him
beyond his demerits. We are not told the times of his contracting it:
but if you recollect, from the distant period of his last Draught
upon Grill during his Siberian excursion you inferred, and very justly, the
probability and indeed almost a certainty of some other charge that
had not been brought to account. We must not therefore impute
to him the crime of incorrigibility on that account. A great part,
certainly perhaps, the greatest was certainty contracted within that natural in
order to bring him back. Now if it has contracted with Grill.
It must therefore all of it have been contracted upon his mere personal
credit at Petersburgh. This circumstance through it does not diminished
the burden affords some consolation by the proof it gives of the warm
friends he has acquired, and the estimation he is held in there. If by the
money already laid out he has purchased an honourable and lucrative
establishment in any degree approaching to the amount of his calculations
you certainly can not grudge it or look upon it as mis-spent.] The
appointments of his ministerial employment place will be some little temporary relief to him
which
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Jeremy Bentham |
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