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1793-8-16

Queen's Square Place Westminster Aug.t 16.th 1793.

My Lord,

If your Lordship will have the goodness to cast
a second glance upon my letter, you will perceive that the Articles
in which the penalty was proposed to be inserted are there spoken of as
not signed, it could not therefore have been any part of my meaning
to represent myself as actually exposed to any such penalty: my
meaning was simply to convey to your Lordship an idea of the
importance attached by Administration to that degree of dispatch,
which it was not less my own wish to effectuate.

Your Lordship's politeness does me no more than Justice in
being assured that I cannot deem unreasonable on your Lordship's
part a refusal to accede to any such proposal instanter under the
circumstances your Lordship is pleased to mention: in what degree
the particulars of the business might be present to your Lordship's
mind was a matter of accident, altogether not of my knowledge,
and in respect of which I could do no more than take my chance.

No doubt but that the effect of such an alienation upon the
value of Your Lordship's property in that neighbourhood is an object
that has as strong a claim to consideration as the amount of the price
obtainable for that particular part: nor should I be at all surprised
if that effect should at first blush be apprehended prejudicial. For
my own part I have no such apprehensions; nor will Your Lordship,
I hope, when the particulars of the plan, as far as this question is
concerned have been more fully laid before You. The persons of the prisoners

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