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"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
proferr'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 surprise)
ready to insure to me. Instead of that,
no spot was in readiness, the four countries, or
at least the environs of the navigation, actual and
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 possible one. In stating the matter in these
terms, far be at for me to impute, for in my conscience
I do not impute; any thing unreasonable
to Mr Long: so far from it, that in his place
I don't see what more favourable proposal to me proposal he could have
made. A very obliging one, I am sure, it
was on his part: for, in addition to the two Surveyors

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	078	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d25 f21 / d26 f22
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39132
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