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well suited for the "Place" or "Parade of the Colony, and Sir William Parker

verbally applied to

to

me not long ago, be allowed to retain

as a

it permanently Navy Dépôt," but as it is situated in the

very

centre of the City and as its being. occupied with Naval Store Houses, dc, would entirely shut out the future Public Buildings even a view of the Harbour, and would greatly interfere with the exeulation of fresh air and the

from

other important

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desiderata alluded to in an Extract of a letter from the Colonial Office under date the 30th of January 1843, with which I

have been furnished by the Earl of Aberdeen, I pointed these facts out in a private Communication to Sir William Parker

from whose reply ( in the same form) of the 20th of April I quote the following passage: "I feel that we shall have every reason to be satisfied with the liberal space for

our