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portions of his estates by letting them on building Leases,
was the damage he mentioned himself as being apprehensive
of. To This observation Sir Charles replied
by the example a suggestion which happened to occurr to him
at the instant, that if the rents of the houses on
Ludgate Hill and other streets in the vicinity of
Newgate. – Had I "Has Mr B continued his Lordship really the authority I professed he professes
"to have from Government?" – a question, which it
would hardly have been worth his while to putting
unless in the event of if notwithstanding in the event of his being satisfied of the
affirmative he felt himself inclined to acquiescence
it was meant to oppose the measure
meant to embark in an opposition, without which
a simple refusal of concurrence could not answer
any purpose. In conclusion the objections he
urged and the disinclination he manifested seemed
& I apprehended them right to regard the degree of dispatch that had been requested rather than
the thing itself matter of the request, and to point to the past rather
than to the future: but of this I shall be fully
satisfied on the 22d.
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