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Clandestine engagement with Lord Belgrave|Mar 1 1800 Mar 15 1800

A3 [] Mr Bentham to Mr Long. - 1 March 1800, BelgraveMr Opposition - <hi rend="underline"> Caprice against - Letter asked, to quell it.</hi> Mar. 1 1800

In answer to a Letter of mine to La Belgrave, of the 17th of December last, requesting his assistance in the proposed Tothill Fields Appropriation Bill, I received from his Agent, MrBoodle, on the 19th of the last month, a refusal, which I took for a dilatory one, but which, on a verbal explanation with Mr Boodle this day, turned out to be intended as a peremptory one. -

To my enquiries on what points the refusal turned, Mr. Boodle answered with great candour, that Lord Grosvenor and Lord Belgrave were both fully sensible, that if the Penitentiary Establishment were indeed to be set down, any where in the Neighbourhood, the damage to the Grosvenor Estate would be considerably less, were the Building to be on the proposed spot on Tothill Fields, than if it were on any part of Salisbury Estate: but that, in the latter went, the damage to their Estate would be so immense, and o much beyond the reach of calculation, that they could not persuade themselves that their remonstrances against it should be otherwise than successful. -

To prove to him the grounds of my own persuasion to the contrary — in addition to the arguments, which the case affords, of which (I am satisfied) you will willingly excuse me from repeating, I showed him your official Letter of the 19th instant, relative to the buying in the Leases: asking him whether he had any written evidence of any later date, or of any date, to which he could refer me in support of the persuasion entertained, as he said, by the noble Lords of his principals. To this question his answer was in the negative. -

It may be proper you should be apprized, Sir, that this supposed damage, which has not been made the subject of calculation

Identifier: | JB/121/026/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1800-03-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field	Clandestine engagement with Lord Belgrave
Image	001	Titles	Mr Bentham to Mr Long
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	Recto"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D3 / E10 / F3
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	Not sent; see note 5 to letter 1515, vol. 6	ID Number	001
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