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Tothill Fields, is there any other Spot in contemplation that
you think would answer the purpose?

Answer. I know of no other Spot whatsoever, that would answer the purpose in any tolerable degree and at the same time afford
me any thing near an equal prospect of seeing the choice
finally approved. This is the last of four places, each of which
at the outset afforded me prospects, which in the three preceding
instances proved delusive.

Nothing could be more decided than the approbation
bestowed upon this Spot upon the very first mention of it.
Legal obstacles, with the existence of which nobody is chargeable,
have been unavoidably productive of a part of the Delays.
As far as I may be permitted to Judge, the great aversion
entertained to the employing in the present case, or applying
for, the compulsive</hi powers regularly granted as often as
Land is to be purchased for a Public purpose, is, and has
been throughout, the <hi rend="underline">only source of difficulty, at least at the
Fountain Head. I am satisfied in my own mind, that the
business would have been dispatched near five Year ago, if
Land could have been found, that belonged to nobody and
was in no Neighbourhood. My own aversion to such powers is
not inferior, and would be productive of the same effects, if
I saw by what possible means the business could be done upon less unpleasant terms.

My great comfort, as well as my great encouragement,
at the outset of the business, the observation of a Spot, in
the instance of which, as it seemed to me, these difficulties
had already been overcome. It was upon the Ground of an Act of Parliament, and of a decision that had been given
upon it by a Tribunal of which the twelve Judges formed
that I proceded on the outset of the Business: it was upon the
faith of another act of Parliament (which the Committee have before

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	099	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38716
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