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point of being signed, doubts suggested themselves to Administration
how far they could be warranted in this part of the design by the
letter of the Act: and it was accordingly determined to avoid,
if possible, the grounding any proceeding upon it, and instead of
doing so to bring in a special Bill for the occasion; a measur
which they have been pleased to intimate to me their determination
of taking at the very commencement of the next Session, regretting
that it was not taken in the last. M<hi rend="superscript">r Nepean accordingly,
in announcing to me that determination, expressed his intention
of waiting immediately upon your Lordship (as well as the Archbishop)
with a view of stating how much the public service was
interested in the immediate acquisition of the ground, before the
forms of Parliament could be gone through with, and in requesting
accordingly your Lordship's concurrence for the purpose
Upon my expressing my suspicion that your Lordship's presen
residence was not within the limits of any excursion which it
would be possible for him to make, he then desired that as th
business must be done by writing, and the circumstances were mo present
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