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6 Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

attempts of a similar kind, that have been made in that
vicinity, comes to be understood. If the Plan, presented by the
Adams's about the year 1760, met with so little encouragement,
it was because, at that early period (it might be said) the
Country and the Metropolis were not as yet for it. But
an attempt made as a much more recent Period at the most
favourable period known, and in a situation which, though
contiguous, presents the same advantages in a much superior degree,
has been equally unsuccessful. Parallel to the course of the
Thames, between Tothill Fields and the River, runs a tract of
Land, stretching from Grosvenor House to the Wharf called the
Thames Wharf in a line running (without any interruption
worth noticing) through a length of from 700 to 800 yards, along
the River wall, and extending in depth from about 400 to about
250 yards as far as Tothill Fields, by which it is all along bounded
on the other side. This land has for its proprietor are a single person,
(the Marquis of Salisbury) whose title is without dispute and his
rights without controul, unfettered by Settlements or Leases. The
time is not exactly known, but it was within these 6 or 8 years,
before, but not long before, the breaking out of that war
which has thrown all improvements of this kind to so melancholy
a distance, that a Projector of new Towns obtained so
much credit with the noble proprietor, as to have been let
into possession of the property, in confidence of his covering it
with Streets and Squares, upon a Plan outvying in magnificence
even that of the Adams's: but, so compleatly did the event fail
of realizing these brilliant expectations, so impracticable was it
found to procure so much as a single foundation to be laid,
that the object was no longer how to get the land covered with
buildings, but how to get it back out of the hands of the projector
or his Assignees in its naked State: nor was even this latter object attained without
a considerable sacrifice.
Both plans (that of the Adams's for Tothill Fields and
that for the Marquis of Salisbury's Estate have been seen by the
writer of these pages. As

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Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	108	Info in main headings field	case relative to the tothill fields bill
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Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
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Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38725
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