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Lordship will have the goodness to return the Report, as it is
not mine but Sir Chas. Bunbury's [upon second thought I
fear it must be a copy for the present, the printed original
being in Mr. Nepeans 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 system's having
been kept in mind (and 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. Chamberlayn Sollicitor of the Treasury, at the instance of
Sir Charles Bunbury and Mr Nepean, shewing the parcels, and
exhibiting the state of the transaction at the time of its suspension,
which took place on account of the then poverty of the Treasury and
nothing else, as Lord Lansdown, 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 with regret I reflect on the distance which
operates as a bar to those mutual explanations by which
I flatter myself your Lordship's doubts might be effectually
cleared up. Does your Lordship entertain any thoughts of
revisiting this neighbourhood soon? My younger Brother
Colonel Bentham is at present out upon a tour which
may perhaps bring him through Northhampton in his
way home. I don't know but I may venture to take the liberty with

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Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
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