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not mine but Sir Charles Bunbury's (upon second thoughts I fear it must
be a copy for the present, the printed original being in Mr Nepean's office
from which things are not to be got in a hurry.) Give me leave to add
that though this is the last Public testimony of the Penitentiary systems
having been kept in mind (& consequently the land that had been appropriated
to it) yet it never actually has been out of the mind of Administration.
It was not more than a twelvemonth before my plan in
its original shape had been sent to Mr Pitt that the late Mr
Blackburn, the Architect, had an audience of him on that subject, as
well as of the then Lord Chancellor, as Blackburn himself told me.
I also enclose a paper, which I was supplied with by Mr Chamberlain
Sollicitor of the Treasury, at the instance of Sir Charles Bunbury
& Mr Nepean, shewing the parcels, & exhibiting the state of the transaction
at the time of its suspension, which took place on account of the
then poverty of the treasury & nothing else, as Lord Landsdown, by whom
on Consultation with Lord Sydney the suspension was determined upon
informed me several years ago in Conversation at his own House.
It is for want of information that Your Lordship has found it
necessary to give that temporary refusal to which it is impossible for any
one to impute blame, & which Your Lordship does not absolutely preclude
me from hoping to see recalled. — May I flatter myself that the
deficiency has been now supplied?
After the perusal of the inclosed paper, Your Lordship (I think
I may venture to promise myself) will have no doubt about the spot I
think then Your Lordship will recognize, that the only dwellings that
can
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