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bargain to a better, but I said & still say that
government is to judge of what is the best bargain
not you — If I am not to have Battersea rise say
you I will have nothing — I reply that there seems to
me no reason for such a determination perhaps you
cannot work it at so low a rate per man elsewhere, but
first let Surveyors ascertain under the Act whether the
Penitentiary House is to be built there or elsewhere
if elsewhere — make new proposals, those you have made
apply only to Battersea Rise & cannot conclude you for
another Spot — but cannot you conceive it possible that
it may be more eligible & more economical too upon
the whole for government to give you higher terms per
head in another place, the original Cost of the Land
may be so much higher in one place than another as
alone to make the whole difference — But instead
of considering what I said in this Light in which I
thought I had sufficiently explained it you chuse to
suppose t me to mean that to please an Individual
government would make a bad bargain instead of
a good one, an Idea far indeed from my thoughts
& which if you had been disposed to consider with fairness
what I said you would not have imputed to me.

It is unnecessary for me to say any thing upon

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Date_1	1794-09-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
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