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1794 Panopticon To Dundas - Not sent

Spots <add>Land beyond comparison more convenient to him, manifestly
so upon the face of them, are to be found in plenty. Amongst others a large
tract beautifully situated
along the river, between
Vauxhall & Battersea, opposite looking
upon Ranelagh & Chelsea.

All these however
Q. S. P. Dec. 31. 1794.
he is absolutely precluded from accepting by their manifest unfitness

Sir
for their not being "proper" for the service as certain unhealthiness, renders
them in that account not proper for the service

I understood just now from Mr Long, that
in the relation to the spot for the Panopticon, that
Mr Pitt wished the decision to be con given by you,
that from your recollection of the reasons contained
in the too long Memorial you were inclined to the think
the spot already chosen at Battersea Rise was a the proper
one, and but that you wished to have your recollection
fixed by a summary of those reasons.

It is with the highest inexpressible satisfaction that I learn learnt <add>understood
just now yesterday from Mr Long that in relation to the Penitentiary House that the apprehended objections the no objection presents
itself against the spot already chosen for at Battersea but what regards the expence of
Rise, but are reduced to the purchase money a supposed increase of value: With regard
to this point which is has been apprehended to have risen be
likely to be prove four times as great now as at the time of the original the assessed price of

valuation by the Jury in 1782, assessing it at which was	£ 6600:
That qua sum quadrupled is - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	£26400
Supposed increase	£19800

My answer is
1. that no such increase of expence on the account purchase money is to be apprehended.
2 1. That whatever be the increase I am ready to make
a compensation for it by a sum such as proportional any reduction in the annual
head money as if under the circumstances of the case such reduction shall be deemed reasonable. by yourselves
and Mr Pitt.
2. But the idea notion of any such extraordinary increase
will & wa must be found to be grounded altogether on
a mistake. The supposition on which it leans is that
of the land's being capable of being let on a building
leases. But
1. There is no power to grant The land is incapable of being granted upon a building lease.
The

as the decision
may upon matter
of fact, I am humbly
content that it should
be made dependent upon
the correctness of the
allegations: but my
case will be a most
hopeless one, if the
intimation of the decision should wait
for proof of them to
be exhibited by me.
All I have to contend
for is the adherence to decisions
notorious in themselves
and recognized by the
late Act. I understand
to my inexpressible satisfaction
that no difficulties
exist with regard to
any thing but the a
supposed increase of
value on the part of
the land: and those
difficulties it is my Humblye
hope you will find
compleatly obviated
were it only by the
offer I have now
made.

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Date_1	1794-??-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
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