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13 Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill.

and desolate Spot, altogether unsusceptible of any such attribute
as the pretium affectionis, that the present Bill is proposed.

If there were any Class of Persons, in whose instance the pretium
affectionis could, in the present case, be supposed to operate,
it would be that of the Paupers in the Two-Chimney Poor-House;
whose grievance would be — the having 4 or 500 Yards to move
from a decayed habitation to a new one. But surely, if there
be any Class of Individuals, whose affections may be called
upon to give way to the superior Interests of the Public, it
must be that one of all others, which has no other title to the
situation in question than what it derives from the Gratuitous
Bounty of the Public.

In the Dean's-Yard-Square Act already mentioned
(20 Geo 2. Ch. 54) Powers were included, for pulling down a
Poor House in and belonging to these some Parishes: though
the object of that act was nothing more than the building of
Houses fit for the reception of Parents having Children in the
Kings School, and the Poor House there in question was — not the
the present decayed Structure, containing no more than 8 or 9
Inhabitants with or without Families — but the principal Poor
House, and that a modern built one, containing the bulk of
the Parish Poor to the amount of many hundreds. ( ) ( ) The average number is about 500.

About 300 Private Houses were exposed by that same Act
to the same fate; (though, owing to a failure in the ways and
means, only a few of them eventually experienced it:) as appears
by a Petition presented by the Inhabitants of those Houses to the
House of Lords, which Petition is represented in the abovementioned
Pamphlet, written by the abovementioned D<hi rend="underline">r Wilson</hi>, at that time
one of the Pretends of Westminster and Perpetual Curate of S.<hi rend="underline">t</hi> Margaret's.

How much stronger a case that was than the present, will
appear from the following Passages in the Petition (being the
whole of it except the formal words at the Introduction and
Conclusion) in which the sufficiency of such a Ground as that

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Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	110	Info in main headings field	case relative to the tothill fields bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38727
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