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§7 Breach of faith 3rd Mr Wise's Land Mar 19 1799 June 19 1800
12 Aug 1799

E.2. Mr Bentham to Mr Long. 12 Aug. 1799
armed Letter - Inclosing Wise's offer - Terms exorbitant - no unwillingness
to sell - no hardship in correcting the exorbitance by the Act.

Not sent -
Inclosing Smith's offers
for Wise -
Armed Letter -
Demand for those Lots
Reasons for employing
powers of compulsive
purchase —
Inclosed I have the honour of transmitting to you two
Letters from MrSmith, China man, No22 Strand, Agent to
Henry Wise of the Priory near Warwick Esq<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>, containing offers
of two parcels of land of his, contiguous or near to Tothill
Fields, for the purpose of making up the spot to be allotted
to the Penitentiary House. One of them, for distinction sake, I
call the Tothill Fields Slip; the other, the Willow Walk Estate.
At the same time, lest the act of transmitting them should
be regarded as involving involving on my part a sort of tacit approbation, it seems
incumbent on me to observe, the the price demanded appears
in both instances too high; and, in the instance of
the Tothill Fields Slip, an so much so, as to be more than
as high again as that of the best part of Lord Salisbury's
Ground. Mr Smith is, and for many years past, has been,
the known and sole Agent of MrWise, in respect of his
concerns in Westminster, which are various and extensive.
My language to him on the subject has been uniform -
that matters of this sort are transacted by Government according
to settled and unbending rules-(a) that there was need
of one at least of these Estates - that these existed on the
part of Government disposition to pay liberally for it according to those
rules, and power to take it on those terms that MrWise
would have neighbour's fare - and that the neighbour I
alluded to was Ld Salisbury. His first intention was
(and, if I do not misrecollect, it was his own idea, not
mine) to make the offer general, and not clog it with the
demand of any specific price: and he parted from me
in the declared intention of making it so, although for his
guidance in point of form, I had shewn him an exact
copy

Identifier: | JB/120/392/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 120.
Date_1	1799-08-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	120	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	392	Info in main headings field	breach of faith 3rd - mr wise's land
Image	001	Titles	mr bentham to mr long
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 1458, vol. 6	ID Number	40218
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