§ MR. BLACKBURNsaid, he would beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works, Whether the part of Hyde Park behind Apsley House, shut off from the rest of the Park, and used as a garden, is leased, or may at once be opened for the use of the public?
MR. COWPERreplied, that the incisure in question was not a part of the Park, and had not been made the subject of any lease or agreement. The persons residing in the neighbourhood were allowed to use the garden on the payment of an annual sum of three guineas, which went to the maintenance of the garden. But no engagement was entered into with them beyond the year for which their subscription was paid.