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' | Queen's Square Place Westminster<lb/> | ||
August 16<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> 1794<lb/> | |||
Sir<lb/> | |||
On Saturday last I was favoured with<lb/> | |||
an audience of a few minutes by M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Long, on<lb/> | |||
the subject of the Penitentiary business: and as<lb/> | |||
the results was, a recommendation on his part, to<lb/> | |||
state to you at large, what I was ready to have<lb/> | |||
stated equally at large, and did in part state to<lb/> | |||
him, it becomes necessary for me to trouble you<lb/> | |||
in some measure with what passed on that occasion<lb/> | |||
between that gentleman and me.<lb/> | |||
His proposition was that two Surveyors<lb/> | |||
should be appointed, by a day he mentioned, to<lb/> | |||
make choice, under the Act, of a spot for the purpose,<lb/> | |||
intimating that it was with a view of finding<lb/> | |||
out some other effort to serve in lieu of the present<lb/> | |||
one: and, if I did not misunderstand him,<lb/> | |||
he proposed to be present on the occasion as well<lb/> | |||
as myself. My answer was, that as I could<lb/> | |||
not hold myself concluded by the judgement of<lb/> | |||
any two Surveyors, and I was satisfied by experiment<lb/> | |||
that every search after an attainable<lb/> | |||
spot that should in my judgment be "<hi rend="underline">as proper</hi><lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">and convenient</hi>" (to use the words of the Act) would<lb/> | |||
be<lb/> | |||
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Queen's Square Place Westminster
August 16th 1794
Sir
On Saturday last I was favoured with
an audience of a few minutes by Mr Long, on
the subject of the Penitentiary business: and as
the results was, a recommendation on his part, to
state to you at large, what I was ready to have
stated equally at large, and did in part state to
him, it becomes necessary for me to trouble you
in some measure with what passed on that occasion
between that gentleman and me.
His proposition was that two Surveyors
should be appointed, by a day he mentioned, to
make choice, under the Act, of a spot for the purpose,
intimating that it was with a view of finding
out some other effort to serve in lieu of the present
one: and, if I did not misunderstand him,
he proposed to be present on the occasion as well
as myself. My answer was, that as I could
not hold myself concluded by the judgement of
any two Surveyors, and I was satisfied by experiment
that every search after an attainable
spot that should in my judgment be "as proper
and convenient" (to use the words of the Act) would
be
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