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With regard to Your Lordship's suspicion, that a part of the land in
question may prove to be upon Lease, I neither rather think Your Lordship will
find the fact to be otherwise: (not that it is at all material as Your
Lordship will see presently.) In the course of a Visit to the spot I happened
a short time ago, by accident & without my seeking, to fall into Conversation
upon the subject of the Penitentiary plan with one of Your
Lordship's tenants; a Gardener of the name of Glonie, who did not know
the relation I bore to it. Beginning the Conversation (for he avowed
a suspicion of me on that score) he mentioned it as a remarkable
circumstance, that no part of the land, either is now upon lease, or
has been for these two hundred years. His own part he spoke of as being
40 Acres: (being the upper part on which the building would be placed)
& he applied the same observation to the remainder in equal quantity:
(which agreed exactly with the quantity detailed in the inquest of the
Jury.) With respect to his own part, I think he can scarcely have been
otherwise than correct, in regard to a circumstance in which he was so
highly interested: & that is the only part for which I should have occasion,
before Parliament had time to do its office.

I set out with observing, that lease or no lease is immaterial to
the present purpose: & so Your Lordship will find it to be. Why? —
Because the actual immediate possession is equally out of Your Lordships
power as landlord to grant, whether there be or be not a lease, as I well
knew: that must depend at any rate upon the occupying Tenants. Without
their consent, to whom I well knew I must have to apply for it after all,
that of the landlord would in point of law be unavailing: since a tenant
stiled a tenat at will is not so far at Will, as that he can be removed,
or his exclusive possession infringed upon, without a certain interval of
notice: & with the consent of the Tenant on the other hand, a man might

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Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
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