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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 than 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 P
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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