JB/118/039/001

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To Dundas

Now, Sir, as to my declining to accept the
offer, obliging as it was, that was made me by Mr
Long, with regard to the expedition for looking out for
other Land. — My expectation was, I must confess,
Sir, either that Administration, after due consideration
given to the case, would give up the idea of any
further choice, and give me the old spot at the first
word, or else that some particular spot, such as
Administration, with or without hearing the gentlemen
who oppose the existing choice had seen reason
to be satisfied with, which they thought would be, or
might be made to be, "as proper and convenient"
(though I, without their knowledge, happened to be
convinced of the contrary) and which was known to
be in readiness to be taken possession of without opposition,
would have been proffer'd to me. I was the
more strongly impressed with this idea, in as
much as I had repeatedly understood from Sir
Charles Bunbury that there were two spots, both
in Battersea Parish, and both of which he specified,
which the gentlemen who refused me the other were
(to my great surprize) ready to insure to me. Instead
of that no spot was in readiness, the four
counties, or at least the environs of the navigation,
actual & possible, were to be searched for some other
spot, and my pretensions to the existing spot were
to be given up, as a preliminary to the search after
the

Identifier: | JB/118/039/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	039	Info in main headings field	to dundas
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f23 / f24
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39093
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