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10 Jany 1802
Grounds Jail Improvements
have ever formed to himself any precision conception
about the matter. From Between £60,000 and
£70,000 say then £65,000 is the smallest
sum that according to the estimate of persons though I must confess but a verbal one
competent to give the given me by persons competent
to give the most afford the correctest account that
can be afforded, was the expense of that building
fitting up and stocking not included – money
of that time. Two thousand was the number
of Prisoners officially promised to me by Mr Long and
Mr King, at the a time when one of them
at least had determined I should have none.
In me Your Lordship beholds a man who
in the bargains he has made with the Treasury
on this occasion "has taken special good care of himself"
if Mr Rose, who without introduction
or occasion was pleased on or about the
of 1798 1799 to compliment me with that
character gratify me with that compliment in
the presence of his friend Mr Lowndes, who seemed to have
been brought there to witness it, is to be believed.
And now my Lord, and after this profane,
if your Lordship instead of the second floor
of the Treasury Chambers, Your Lordship were
an occasional occupant of the same building edifice
in the character of First Lord of it, I would
venture – yes I would venture notwithstanding
my
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