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Sir
I send you by Mr Dundas's
desire the paper which accompanies theseis — In
perusing it which I have done very cursorily
I was surprised to find that you had most
unaccountably misunderstood me particularly in
two points the first is not very material, but
when you suppose me to have intended to accompany
the Surveyors to ascertain whether a spot of ground
could be found more eligible than Battersea Rise for
the Purpose of building a Penitentiary House you
really suppose me to have made a proposal which
never entered into my head — But Sir the
other misconception is a little more serious and wch
a very little of that Candour on your part which
you are disposed to allow to me must have prevented.
You represent me as saying that if government made
with you a worse bargain for itself for building
on any other Spot than Battersea Rise, it was
no concern of yours — Now Sir I never said
any thing to this effect or even meant to
insinuate that Government would prefer a worse

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Date_1	1794-09-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	586	Info in main headings field
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