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fulfilling his Engagements, to the Spot already chosen, and
by answering in the way of anticipation any suggestions,
if any should be made, with a view of inducing
your Lordships to refuse or delay the adoption of that
choice.
For this purpose, your Memorialist will in the
first place, beg leave in general forms to refer your
Lordships if necessary to the paper marked A, being
the copy of a paper delivered by him to Mr. Nepean
at an early period of the Treaty, and which, as your
Memorialist understood from Mr. Nepean, had undergone
the perusal, and met with the approbation of Mr. Pitt,
and Mr. Dundas.
18.
No opposition on the part of Proprietors now.
With regard to objections, all that he has
ever heard of as subsisting at any time, amount to
but two, one of which subsists no longer: Viz!:
1. A reluctance on the part of a proprietor
to part with his property. 2. A reluctance on the
part of certain Inhabitants of the Neighbourhood,
to see an Establishment for such a purpose instituted
in their vicinity.
1. As to the reluctance on the part of Proprietors,
(an objection, the invalidity of which is assumed
and recognized, by every act which has been ever
made for taking private ground for public purposes)
the relevance of it, in the present instance in
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