despatch of the same tenor as the notification, and directed the Colonial Secretary to add, that I should be glad to be furnished with their views as to the term to which they considered it would be desirable to extend the present Leases.
This Letter was sent to these Gentlemen on the 17th Ultimo, and as yet I have been unable to obtain any reply to it; but in explanation of this circumstance, I may add that I do not believe their silence to have proceeded from any want of courtesy on their part, but from the fact of many of the principal Mercantile Gentlemen having been absent from the Colony, either on business, or by reason of ill health.
By Your Lordship's despatch of the 18th January, 1822, I was directed to report my opinion on the state of the landed tenure in this Island. On my arrival I found that a Memorial had already been sent to Your Lordship on the subject; and I therefore awaited your Lordship's reply, which has now been received; it appears to be intended to be conclusive, and has been written with a full knowledge of all the facts of the case, it seems to me to be nearly unnecessary to renew the discussion of the question. Nevertheless, I think it proper to inform your Lordship that I have had frequent interviews on the subject with most of the principal Inhabitants, to whom I have pointed out (admitting that the rates were too high) the extreme difficulty of altering them on any fixed plan; the circumstance that as the reductions of rent would, in consequence, of necessity assume an arbitrary appearance, much objection would be raised to any arrangement which it might be in the power of the
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despatch_ of the same tenon as
same tenor as the notification, and directed the Colonial keretary to add,
that I chould be glad to be furnished with their news as to the term to which they_
"considered it would be desirable to cytend the present Leases
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was sent to these Gentlemen
on the 17th Ultime, and as yet. I have been unable to obtain any reply to its; but in explanation of this circumstance. I may add that I do not believe their silence to have
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