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sellor of State, Ivanof, who доед home as а messenger via

London, and will deliver this packet into your hands. Уои

will fnd him а gentleman of rare merit, and of distinguished

moral as well as intellectual worth. think be is dextined

for Smyrna, as soon as political events will admit of such ап

appointement; and hope he will obtain it, although consi-

(ler it rather below than оп а level with his deserts. have

[реп induced to send уои the «Report» 1) оп poisons, from

ту knowledge of the interest уои have always taken in this and

all other subjects connected with public charitable institutions.

Му own situation here is painfully distressing. А salary of

3.000 dollars is just as adequate to the necessary expenses

here as would be 3.000 рарет roubles in St.-Petersburg, the

relative value of топеу, and the consequent high numerical

price of commodities, that of 5 to I betwen New-York

and оит imperial city. Му outfts were actually expended оп

the long voyage, where, besides providing for the wonts of а

whole family, had yet to contend wit,h painful, nearly fatal

sickness, which overtook те at kiew оп ту way from Char-

kow to Dantzik. was thus compelled to contract debts in

order to до into housekeeping, every other mode of living

being attended with the enormous expense of 63 dollars, от

315 roubles рет week, and neither convenient for а family,

пот consistend with the usages and decencies of the place.

Should ту repeated applications for the payement of these debts,

as well as for а suitable increase of salary, be rejected оп

the part of government, сап not disguise from myself the

melancholy certainty of being dragged to jail, and of seeing

all ту personal efects brought to the hammer at а public

auction, for the benefit of the creditors.

(1815). Въ Америк•в онъ, въ качествъ консула. посвятилъ свое время

исключительно на paaMcHeHie промышленныхъ и торговыхъ вопро-

совъ, какъ то видно изъ частныхъ писемъ его кь Н. С. Мордвинову.

1) The report will be sent by another direct opportunity, it being

found inconvenient to let it до through England.