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Queens Square Place Aug. 15. 1793
My Lord
I owe your Grace my earliest and most grateful acknowledgments
for the honour of your letter. which I have this instant the
the very first words of it were enough sufficient remembrancing
received. By the time you it contains have called were to call forth all my sensibility was . This will I hope have been preceded by
a copy of mine my letter to Ld Spencer as well as by a copy of my the last
I was so sure of your Grace, that I would not send it the original off, till the time by which 1 readily
calculated it would meet/to my calculation would afford it with the support I promised myself. Your Grace seems to wish
for it was precisely the magnitude of the expenses information with regard to the cost that suspended the execution
of the original plan: the call for the money it was precisely the "terrific" aspect of the expense: this at least was the
reason and the only reason assigned to me in conversation by the Marquis
of Lansdown several years ago: he was item (I mean when the suspension took place) first Lord of the Treasury,
and Lord Sydney the Secretary of State, to whose dep I remember his very
words. "We talked the matter over fully one day, Ld Sydney and I
"at this table, he sitting where you do know; and we agreed the country could
not bear it. — "So far the Marquis; who at the time he spoke of was first Lord at the head of the Treasury
& Lord Sydney Secretary of State But though suspended it the plan was never given up: for in the
Year 1784 a Committee of the House of Commons made a Report in
which the resumption of it was recommended: and not above a
twelvemonth I think it was before my proposal in its first
shape was sent to Mr Pitt, that Mr the late Mr Blackburn the Architect had
a long audi was sent for by him and had a long audience of him,
as Blackburn himself told me. on the subject, as also of Ld Thurlow
Your Grace is not singular in The apprehensions your Grace is
pleased to express with regard to the clause of indemnification for relative to subsequent
offences, are not peculiar to your Grace Administration struck it out: and they also objecting also to the Article
of
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