date

S t. Petersburg Feb 14 th 1781 I have
S t. Petersburg Feb 14 th 1781

I have no more time than just to forward to you your brother's letter which he left with me at his setting out, and to tell you, Sir, that his business goes on very well, he has two excellent strings to his bow, in short I know not how he could be better off, but you must not be in a hurry, that is the worst in our country; It will be a twelvemonth, or let us say, for the most 18 months, before his affairs can be determined on. I must tell you that I am not a stranger to his pressing circumstances in other respects. He has been very uneasy, I could see, at his having drawn on his father for so much, I could have prevented him, taking away the necessity; this howwever he would not allow. But although my allowance is but scanty for the expences I am necessarily, from my situation drawn into, yet you may make his father, if you please, easy as to the apprehensions of more demands, I will save my friend from that and I shall have a bad opinion o fhim if he does not permit me to satisfy his further wants: I shall one day other have a sufficiency, and indeed as my wants are not very extensive, an affluency, and then I am sure my friend cannot want
Similar Items
  • Title: [We have received lately the News of the revolt]
    Description: We have received lately the News of the revolt which has been suscitated in

    London and the guilty part which M r Ranzow has taken

    in it The Empress learnt it with a great displeasure, and I believe has

    instantly Sentenced him to a perpetual Banishment with a positive refusal to

    receive representations from whomsoever in his favour or Justification.

    After the uncourteous length of my letter, no apology is good, the best and

    only attonement I can make for the loss of your time is to

    stopt Short, allowing myself only to assure You of the

    unlimited respect and honest Esteem with which I shall always remain,

    Sir, Your very humble & Obed. t Serv. t Sergius Pleschjeff.

    S t. Petersbourg, June 21 t )OS. 1780.)

    P.S. I am waiting impatiently for your Letter's, being authorized by your

    Brother to open them, and charged to transmit to him only the most

    interesting Passages, conserving the whole of the Letters in my custody

    'till his return.

    St Petersbourg, Febry 14 th 1781

    I have no more time than just to forward to You, Your Brothers Letter which

    he left with me at his setting out, and to tell you, Sir, that his Business

    goes on very well, he has two excellent Strings to his Bow, in Short, I

    know not how he could be better off, but You must not be in a hurry, that is

    the worst in our Country; it will be a twelve Month, or let us say for the

    most 10 months before his affair can be determined on. I must tell

    you that I am not a stranger to his pressing circumstances in other

    respects, He has been very uneasy, I could see, at his having drawn on his

    Father for so much, I would have prevented him, taking away the necessity;

    This however he would not allow. But although my allowance is but security

    for

    the
  • Title: [Archangel Feb y 26 th O.S. 1781]
    Description: Archangel Feb y 26 th O.S.

    1781

    Poor Lind! I can't help thinking of the man. He was all together a very

    extraordinary character. For my part I

    was under great obligations to him. I received your Letter containing the

    news of his Death the Day after I arrived here when I was at Dinner at the

    House of a Merchant whose acquaintance I made by his means at M r Raikes's in London. I could not help starting

    at seeing the words "Lind's Death" put at Top.

    The Paper which you tell me of having dispatched I hope to receive by the

    next Packet from Petersburg. I got your's of Dec r 29 th containing the first parcel of

    " Exper" by the last post and "Div": came to hand

    before I set out. As to the matter between Peake and Harrison I know no

    more of it, than the Man in the Moon. Sir Cha s

    Douglas's method of splicing the yards is certainly a good one but I

    can't say so much of your description of it. If it were not for the bright

    genius of my younger brother, my scribling would have been to

    little purpose.
  • Title: [believe I shall return straight in which]
    Description: believe I shall return straight in which case I shall not be absent from Petersbourg above a month. This depends however many circumstances which I cannot enter into a detail of. Be satisfied in the assurance that it is not the pleasure of the present moment that I pursue. My friend Ples: is very ill of a disorder which though not immediately very dangerous yet plagues him a good deal every now and then. It is the asthma. What are the remedies and regimen usually employed in England? He frequently reads over your letters to him with the strongest sensation at the pleasure of having received such a letter from you but of shame at the same time for not having answered it. It is his constant occupation and the habit he has been now for some time in of neglecting by necessity his own affairs that seems to have prevented him.

    Mr Carew is still here and will stay I believe the winter at least He is a man certainly of great abilities a vast stock of knowledge and from all opportunities I have had of judging, of a most excellent heart. He is as much attached to his country as possible and Sir James cannot but find a great satisfaction in his political assistance.

    I am affraid you wont read all this

    Jan y 13th 1781 OS.

    We have no news to tell you. It is from you in England that we are anxiously expecting news. What a havock

    you must make among the Dutch Ships.

    S.B. Lr dat d Petersburg Jan y 13. 1781

    rec d 26 Feb. y 1781.