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Case relative to the Tothill Fields Bill

"as of their Studies and their Morals." (<hi rend="underline">b)

Among the numerous Classes of cases, in which specific
rights of property are every day made to give way to public exigence or even
convenience, an instance is perhaps hardly to be found, of a
change so pregnant with advantages to the general mass of
Interests concerned, and at the same time so clear of hardships.
To the Neighbourhood, it would afford not only a negative
Security, by the removal of the source of danger above indicated,
but a positive safeguard of no mean account. For the Security
of the Penitentiary House itself, a numerous Watch, upon a
plan of uninterrupted attendance, will be kept, without as well as
within the House, night as well as day: so that at all hourse
there will be an armed force upon the spot, unexposed to those
jealousies, which are apt to narrow the protective derivable from
the military, and in readiness to act, at a moment's warning,
for the quelling of tumults, or apprehending of Malefactors.

It would render the spot, instead of an eyesore, an ornament
to the vicinity: by substituting to the miserable Poor House,
a magnificent and elegant structure, and, to the present combination
of Swamps and Laystalls, a cultivated spot, laid out
upon a plan, in which ornament would be combined with use.

To the Westminster Scholars, it would afford an advantage
as flattering as it would be new and unexpected. At present
whatever benefit they reap from the use of that dreary and ill-
looking expanse, in the way of sport and exercise, is subject to
the perpetual intrusion of mean, dangerous and unwelcome
company, of all sorts: a source (an apparent one at least) of
corruption, which of itself has been known to operate with effect,
in the minds of Parents, as an objection to their entrusting
their children to that School. By the Bill, in compensation
for their undefined right or roaming over the whole waste,
an allotment is made to the Scholars for their separate use, giving

Review of the project for building a new Square at Westminster
8 vo P 33 London 1757: no Printers name—

Identifier: | JB/117/113/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	113	Info in main headings field	case relative to the tothill fields bill
Image	003	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38730
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