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My Lord

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The Lord Mayor

Some difficulties in Points of form having

The Bill for assigningallotting fresh ground tofor the
so lay intended Penitentiary House [+] having been staved off [+] (a business that can
whole has already
boast of being
been beholden to your
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Lordship for more
than good wishes)
to another Session by some points of form, an
idea has suggested itself, of trying the experiment
in the mean time at a reduced expence, and indeed without any increase
of disbursement on the part of Government at
this been of pressure, by a temporary creation
on a spot where it could possess in addition to
those securities which are peculiar to the Inspection
House plan, whatever securities are afforded possessed at present
by the Hulks. The spot lying within the jurisdiction
of the City of London in its quality of Conservation
of the Navigation of the Thames, this peculiarity
of intention is the occasion of the trouble liberty I
am taking in addressingtroubling your Lordship on the subject business
It consists of is a sandbank on the Kent side, lying about midway
between Greenwich and Woolwich, about 1/4 of
a mile above the Sandwharf called Charlton Sand
Wharf. It rises so high as to bear grass, and if
ever covered by water it can only be at spring tides
Where I view Being manifestly altogether out of the
course There is enough of it for the proposed use
which upon the form taking the above statement for true
can nevernot have in any degree operate in any the effect of of narrowing
the navigable part of the channel: on the contrary, if
the extending or deepening the channel: thereabouts were
now, or ever in future to become an object, the proposed establishment would afford an effectual
means of accomplishing it to any extent. What
I would propose to do is to take so much of it, (to the
amount of from 150 to perhaps 200 feet in width and somewhat
more in length,) as shall appear to lie be inaccessible to vessels, manifestly out of the

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Notes public	letter 1340, vol. 6	ID Number	38698
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