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Excerpt from Memoirs of Paul Jones, Late Rear-Admiral in the Russian Service, Chevalier of the Military Order of Merit, and of the Russian Order of St. Anne, &C, Now First Comp, From His Original Journals and Correspondence, 1843, Vol. 2
Speaking to a man of very high rank at Paris, I informed him of the proposal communicated to me by Mr Jefferson. He replied, that he would advise me to go to Constantinople at once rather than enter the service of Russia.
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